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* "In Cold Blood" - the Clutter murders, 50 years later - 5 messages, 5
authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/bf772fd1e7a9a6aa?hl=en
* The Seven Basic Plots - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/cbb217ac2d077860?hl=en
* Do You Believe in Free Willie? A Note for the King of Texas - 4 messages, 3
authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/0f3e0fb9b893335c?hl=en

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TOPIC: "In Cold Blood" - the Clutter murders, 50 years later
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/bf772fd1e7a9a6aa?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 18 2009 8:44 pm
From: "Joan in GB-W"

"Kris Baker" <parallelcooler@ggmail.com> wrote in message
news:7mg2bcF3e29sqU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> "Francis A. Miniter" <faminiter@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:hduji2$hcu$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> "the better Slobodan" wrote:
>>> On Nov 16, 10:26�am, atc <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
>>>> (Guardian.co.uk) - Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was
>>>> devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then
>>>> Truman Capote arrived in town . . .
>>>>
>>>> Continued:http://tr.im/InColdBlood
>>>
>>> +
>>> If it makes you feel better, Capote never wrote again after COLD
>>> BLOOD.
>
> Correction: he never wrote a major novel again.
>
> "Answered Prayers", planned before the Clutter murders BUT obviously
> written after "In Cold Blood" was unfinished, and published in chapters.
>
> Kris

I read "Answered Prayers" a month or so ago and did not like it. It is
three chapters long and not all that coherent . . . to my way of thinking.
Capote used some actual names for characters and made-up names for others.
The last section dealt with the famous Ann Woodward case. Dominick Dunn's
"The Two Mrs. Grenville's" also deals with the Woodward case and that was a
book I liked better. Unfortunately for Truman, by writing "Answered
Prayers," he immediately became persona non grata with the very people he
was writing about and the crowd he most admired and craved acceptance from..

The title refers to a quotation from St. Teresa . . . answered prayers cause
more tears than those that remain unanswered.

Joan

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 2:09 am
From: Stratum101


On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com> wrote:
> "Kris Baker" <parallelcoo...@ggmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:7mg2bcF3e29sqU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >news:hduji2$hcu$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> >> "the better Slobodan" wrote:
> >>> On Nov 16, 10:26 am, atc <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
> >>>> (Guardian.co.uk) - Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was
> >>>> devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then
> >>>> Truman Capote arrived in town . . .
>
> >>>> Continued:http://tr.im/InColdBlood
>
> >>> +
> >>> If it makes you feel better, Capote never wrote again after COLD
> >>> BLOOD.
>
> > Correction:   he never wrote a major novel again.
>
> > "Answered Prayers", planned before the Clutter murders BUT obviously
> > written after "In Cold Blood" was unfinished, and published in chapters.
>
> > Kris
>
> I read "Answered Prayers" a month or so ago and did not like it.  It is
> three chapters long and not all that coherent . . . to my way of thinking.
> Capote used some actual names for characters and made-up names for others.
> The last section dealt with the famous Ann Woodward case.  Dominick Dunn's
> "The Two Mrs. Grenville's" also deals with the Woodward case and that was a
> book I liked better.  Unfortunately for Truman, by writing "Answered
> Prayers,"  he immediately became persona non grata with the very people he
> was writing about and the crowd he most admired and craved acceptance from..
>
> The title refers to a quotation from St. Teresa . . . answered prayers cause
> more tears than those that remain unanswered.
>

Hmm. If Teresa is the scourge of those who get what
they pray for, to whom should I pray not to hear the
"Hey, Jude" song ever again without some lightning
bolt striking me dead?

I'd thought of approaching Mr. Impossible Causes,
St. Jude himeself, but he's not exactly a
disinterested party.

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 7:22 am
From: "Kris Baker"

"Joan in GB-W" <jjkreus@aol.com> wrote in message
news:7mk0pmF3i0js9U1@mid.individual.net...
>
> "Kris Baker" <parallelcooler@ggmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7mg2bcF3e29sqU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>> "Francis A. Miniter" <faminiter@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:hduji2$hcu$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> "the better Slobodan" wrote:
>>>> On Nov 16, 10:26�am, atc <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
>>>>> (Guardian.co.uk) - Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was
>>>>> devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then
>>>>> Truman Capote arrived in town . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> Continued:http://tr.im/InColdBlood
>>>>
>>>> +
>>>> If it makes you feel better, Capote never wrote again after COLD
>>>> BLOOD.
>>
>> Correction: he never wrote a major novel again.
>>
>> "Answered Prayers", planned before the Clutter murders BUT obviously
>> written after "In Cold Blood" was unfinished, and published in chapters.
>>
>> Kris
>
> I read "Answered Prayers" a month or so ago and did not like it. It is
> three chapters long and not all that coherent . . . to my way of thinking.
> Capote used some actual names for characters and made-up names for others.
> The last section dealt with the famous Ann Woodward case. Dominick Dunn's
> "The Two Mrs. Grenville's" also deals with the Woodward case and that was
> a book I liked better. Unfortunately for Truman, by writing "Answered
> Prayers," he immediately became persona non grata with the very people he
> was writing about and the crowd he most admired and craved acceptance
> from..
>
> The title refers to a quotation from St. Teresa . . . answered prayers
> cause more tears than those that remain unanswered.
>
> Joan

It was a mess; I'm surprised "high society" was so shocked by it.

But hey. Woodward died in 1975, which means Capote was kinda-
writing at least ten years past In Cold Blood.

Kris

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 10:52 am
From: Just Me


On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com> wrote:

> Prayers,"  he immediately became persona non grata with the very people he
> was writing about and the crowd he most admired and craved acceptance from..

If anything is made hilariously clear from this brilliantly malicious,
last little literary gasp of Truman Capote, "admiration" was the last
thing he was feeling for those people. What--?? For that spoiled
rotten little klatch of undeservedly rich society snots? The
admiration had been all theirs for him--as only made sense seeing how
he was the only one among them who had ever accomplished anything
worthy of note, and as everything of theirs was only inherited from
someone else; a truth he worked so artfully to expose, and so very,
very well in Answered Prayers. But it was a truth he went on to prove
all the further by their response, that all the 'admiration' had never
really been for him either, but for his status, his desirability as an
objet d' art to display at their parties. He knew this, and that was
the object of Answered Prayers, to say so, right to their faces.

But that Truman Capote should have been so silly (and of course he was
very, very silly, God love him) as to have expected of those phonies
that they'd be hip enough to graciously accept his invitation to laugh
right with him, attend the very fancy feast at which he had their
asses turning on the spit and roasting to a turn--? Well, it, only
serves to prove the Mother Theresa rule all the further true--when it
comes to having one's Prayers Answered, and then being treated to eat
them, too.

In the end, it was their lack of acceptance in *his* esteem, as so
wickedly revealed by the book, which made him persona non grata. And
so what? It was only to his terminal sorrow of astonished
disappointment that they couldn't have been bigger than that.

So you see how very, very, very silly Truman Capote truly, truly was.
But as more than a few are slowly beginning to see (as they break free
of the wounded sensibilities forming the critiques of the New York
literary establishment) and are able to read and and see for
themselves, Answered Prayers may yet prove to be the finest, funniest,
richest, most brilliant of all his works. I can only feel sorry for
those whose enjoyment must depend entirely upon the good opinion of
others, whom they, in their folly (or conceit) presume to be in the
know! ;-)

The poor, sad, slaves.
--
JM http://doo-dads.blogspot.com

== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 1:51 pm
From: Patok


Stratum101 wrote:
> On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> The title refers to a quotation from St. Teresa . . . answered prayers cause
>> more tears than those that remain unanswered.
>>
>
> Hmm. If Teresa is the scourge of those who get what
> they pray for, to whom should I pray not to hear the
> "Hey, Jude" song ever again without some lightning
> bolt striking me dead?

Where do you manage to hear "Hey, Jude" so often so that it
becomes annoying? The last time I heard it was probably a year ago, when
it came in sequence on my "macro iPod". There is something wrong with
the randomize function on it, though - maybe I need to install a
different version of Winamp? It can't be right that I hear "The
Masochism Tango" 10 times, and "Hey, Jude" just once. Overall it shows a
very strange preference for Tom Lehrer - it plays his songs much more
often than their ratio of 55 to the total of 5500, or one in 100, as it
should.


> I'd thought of approaching Mr. Impossible Causes,
> St. Jude himeself, but he's not exactly a
> disinterested party.

Ah, so that's why the hospital is named that way. I, having no
religious background whatsoever, didn't know. I though that maybe it was
the patron saint of children, or something.

--
You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.

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TOPIC: The Seven Basic Plots
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/cbb217ac2d077860?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 10:36 am
From: ZerkonXXXX


On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:59 -0800, Immortalist wrote:

> The Basic Meta-plot

Conflict


== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 1:02 pm
From: "Ed Cryer"

"ZerkonXXXX" <Z@erkonx.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2009.11.19.18.36.02@erkonx.net...
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:59 -0800, Immortalist wrote:
>
>> The Basic Meta-plot
>
> Conflict

Can you name any great work of literature that consists of just
conflict?
I think not. You need some resolution of the conflict; some goal, some
way out of the fighting.
Tolstoy analyses this in detail at the end of War and Peace. What
persists? What comes out of it all? What wins?

Ed

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TOPIC: Do You Believe in Free Willie? A Note for the King of Texas
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/0f3e0fb9b893335c?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 6:44 pm
From: Hal Womack 3-dan


Ah, come to find out:

{Results 1 - 10 of about 724,000 for "free willy". (0.30 seconds)}
from Google Web search.

--------------------------------
On Nov 16, 9:51 pm, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mo' fo' Willie:
>
> Today marks the 20th anniversary of C.I.A. aka Papa Bush murdering 15
> year-old Celina Ramos*
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/yjneks3
>
> together with her mother Elba the cook; also the Rev.Ignacio Ellacuria
> SJ, who was the rector of the Central American University in San
> Salvador, together with 5 of his leading professors. Bush's underboss
> for this hit was his puppet President Alfredo Cristiani. George &
> Alfredo were pissed because the learned Jesuits had exposed in
> scholarly language the atrocities being committed by the C.I.A. puppet
> army against the people of El Salvador. So they sent a hit squad
> trained at the U.S. Army's notorious "School of the Americas" to kill
> the priests. And the witnesses. Afterwards George had Alfredo to the
> White House, where he posed with his arm around the puppet's shoulder.
>
>    http://tinyurl.com/yhubqup
>
> Part of King George's motivation in invading Panama a month later in
> Operation "Just Cause" was to take away the media focus on the
> slaughter of the prominent Jesuits. A second motive was to frighten
> the revolutionary Nicaraguans, who had an important national election
> impending.
>
> With the encouragement of a famous busker friend, I wrote a song about
> Celina's death very shortly afterward.
>
> I took the tune from the most popular soldiers' song of our American
> Civil War, "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight". Here's a YouTube
> performance thereof by the 97th regimental string band:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dVMpRfiD0s
>
> Celina's song can pretty much wear the same jacket, as it were.
>
> He're the lyrics:
>
> CELINA'S SONG
>                               (1989)
>
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight,
> Except here and there a stray witness
> Is shot as she hides at the back of the hall
> By a murder squad hot on its business.
> 'Tis nothing, a servant or so now and then
> Will scarce count in the news on the telly,
> Not an ad_visor lost, only two more of them
> With their brains on the floor like plum jelly.
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight.
>
> Nigh in the sky o'er the shanties below
> The rockets and gatlings are firing;
> So we wage war 'gainst El Salvador
> With the traitors and puppets we're hiring.
> The Washington crowd with their trinkets so proud,
> Who think they are being quite clever,
> As they lie and they kill in the name of our will
> Are shaming our country forever.
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight.
>
> Hark to the sound of the President's voice
> As he praises his pal, Cristiani;
> Hello, my friends, will you give me the choice,
> I say, Hang them both, please, from a high tree!
> Will we begin our task hard and grim
> Guided by memories tender of the children and  wives
> Who have paid with their lives
> For our trust in this monstrous pretender?
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight.
>
> Lying there still on the dark, stone cold floor:
> The remains of the mother and daughter.
> Sleep lightly tonight as you dream of the scene,
> For your taxes have gone to their slaughter!
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight,
> What sound save the candles' soft flicker
> And the scur of the rats as they gather around
> While the red sticky pools grow thicker?
> All quiet within the cathedral tonight.
>
> [end of song]
>
> Way back when, Willie's lawyer in Connecticut sent the hard copy of
> this song back to unopened. Essentially the same story with all the
> other _soi disant_ radical & outlaw singers of both sexes. Pete Seeger
> brushed me off with a bum referral.
>
> Almudena Bernabeu, la abogada del caso contra Alfredo Cristiani:
>    http://tinyurl.com/yf3cz3o
>
> =======================
>
> A Lyrical Touch-up:
>
> Last night there came the strangest thing
> I'd ever seen before:
> I dreamt the world had all agreed
> To put an end to war.
>
> I dreamt there stood a palace grand,
> 'Twas filled with mighty men;
> The treaty they were drafting swore
> They'd never fight again.
>
> Then when the papers were all signed
> And a million copies made,
> We joined our hands and bowed our heads
> While heartfelt thanks were prayed.
>
> And the people in the streets below
> Were dancing 'round and 'round
> As guns and clubs and uniforms
> Lay littered on the ground.
>
> Last night there came the strangest thing
> I'd ever seen before:
> I dreamt the world had all agreed
> To put an end to war.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's the late John Denver on YouTube singing the original version at
> a big pro-Vietnam peace rally in D.C. in 1971:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcwAJZGXsk
>
> By me, the video adds a lot to the rendition (in the pre-Bush sense of
> the word, of course).
>
> Original Text:
>
> Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
> words and music by Ed McCurdy
>
> Last night I had the strangest dream
> I'd ever dreamed before
> I dreamed the world had all agreed
> To put an end to war
>
> I dreamed I saw a mighty room
> Filled with women and men
> And the paper they were signing said
> They'd never fight again
>
> And when the paper was all signed
> And a million copies made
> They all joined hands and bowed their heads
> And grateful pray'rs were prayed
>
> And the people in the streets below
> Were dancing 'round and 'round
> While swords and guns and uniforms
> Were scattered on the ground
>
> Last night I had the strangest dream
> I'd never dreamed before
> I dreamed the world had all agreed
> To put an end to war.
>
> TRO-©1950,1951 & 1955 Almanac Music, Inc.
> New York, N.Y. Copyrights renewedhttp://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/strangest-dream.shtml
> -------------------------
>
> As posted to:
>
> Newsgroups: alt.politics, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.mexican,
> soc.culture.el-salvador, talk.politics.mideast
> From: Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:52:08 -0800 (PST)
> Local: Mon, Nov 16 2009 12:52 pm
> Subject: Remembering the Murder of a Maiden by a U.S. President
>
> END OF NEW MATERIAL
>
> ==============================
>
> On Nov 4, 4:15 am, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > By HalWomack3-danhttp://www.myspace.com/halwomackhttp://tinyurl.com/8fp6zw
>
> > I am just finishing the most important story ever written about a
> > white Texanne*, namely, the fickle (by Chinese standards)
> > but adventurous Stephanie Ryder of Dallas aka Mrs. Jen Yong** aka Lai
> > Spring Snow of Shanghai, the heroine of HanSuyin'snovel TILL MORNING
> > COMES (1982).
>
> > The many-splendored author***, age 92, lives in Lausanne,
> > Switzerland.
>
> > Cutting to the chase, I pray you, Gentle Reader, to consider the
> > question: Should Willie Nelson, himself 76 years old, fly to Lausanne
> > in order to serenade Elisabeth beneath her balcony? Now currently
> > during the romantic hours there the air temperature is getting down to
> > 26 degrees F, so would Willie be able to hold his pick?
>
> > {She flew back to Dallas. And felt both triumphant and ashamed. She
> > would fight. With money. Because she could do a great deal with the
> > salve of money. Money really did change many things, in many ways. She
> > would use money.}
> > p.427. The scene takes place in the late 'Fifties.
>
> > In 1952 my mother, Margaret HarrisWomack, founded "Womanpower for
> > Eisenhower", a statewide group which helped carry Texas for the
> > Republican Party for the first time since Reconstruction. In 1956 with
> > my two younger brothers, I sang one of Ma's political ditties on a
> > temporary stage on a red brick street in downtown Fort Worth in the
> > company of Vice-president Richard Nixon during his campaign for
> > reelection.
> > In 1962 I graduated from the honors program of Jesuit High School in
> > Dallas and in 1966 in philosophy from the U in Austin. Around 1976 I
> > hitchhiked from Houston to San Diego and ever since have made my home
> > in California. Could there truly have been a real-life model for
> > Stephanie Ryder, hereditary oil baroness & mogul of war-plane
> > manufacture, who had a profound understanding of both revolutionary
> > China and of U.S. imperialism? Without me having heard of her at all
> > until half a century later in a work of fiction? The world author
> > seems to be calling into question the hitherto well-established
> > proposition that all Texas billionaires are stupid sonsabitches a la
> > los Bushez. (I do remember a young China scholar at Columbia U in the
> > late 'Sixties who was from a Texas money family, but intellectually he
> > seemed to be merely a member of the C.I.A.--Ivy League herd.) In the
> > next three chapters, will young Steph get herself assassinated? Given
> > the depth, originality and veracity of the story WRT China, 'tis hard
> > to believe that Madame Han concocted the Dallas end of it purely out
> > of whimsy & thin air.
>
> > Moreover, the dollar quote above seems to be pointing straight at the
> > moral of Ralph Nader's new fat chimera
> > ONLY THE SUPERRICH CAN SAVE US!
> > Nader's proposition obstinately disregards all the relevant national
> > precedents of successful revolutions in China, Vietnam, Cuba, South
> > Africa, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. But critique of this
> > important issue can wait until a later day.
>
> > ------------------------------------
> > * In the solitude of my word processor, for a momentito I wondered
> > whether this feminine form might be a new coinage, but brief was that
> > vain hope:
> > {Results 1 - 10 of about 192,000 for Texanne.} From Google Web Page
> > search.
>
> > ** The character's married name given Chinese style, i.e, with family
> > name first. (Does our human race adopt this fashion, then looking up
> > authors in the library will be simplified thereby.)
>
> > *** In 1974 HanSuyin"was the featured speaker at the founding
> > national convention of the US China Peoples Friendship Association in
> > Los Angeles" --WIKI.
> > The reader will recall that President Richard Nixon made his
> > stupendous trip to China in 1972.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nixon_Mao_1972-02-29.png
>
> > "Born on September 12th, 1917 in Sinyang, the province of Henan,
> > China, HanSuyinis the pen name of an outstanding contemporary
> > novelist of Belgian and Chinese origin. Born Chou Kuanghu (the Moon
> > Guest) vee Elisabeth Rosalie Matthilde Clare Chou, Han's present
> > official name is Dr. Elisabeth
>
> ...
>
> read more »

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 7:41 pm
From: Stratum101


On Nov 19, 8:44 pm, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, come to find out:
>
> {Results 1 - 10 of about 724,000 for "free willy". (0.30 seconds)}
> from Google Web search.

Of which 723,999 deal with the children's film, give
or take. Where do you fit in?

"Hal Womack" produces 10,900 results mostly
having to do with the well known kook whose
career as Muni bus driver ended after he
pursued and shot a disagreeable passenger.
Woo, woo.

Yeah, I know. Bernard Baruch
instructed your fellow Catholic
Carl Weiss to shoot Huey Long. A
post mortem on Weiss showed he had
a tiny radio implanted in his brain and
witnesses reported Baruch had been
seen with a microphone repeating,
"Shoot Huey."


== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 8:06 pm
From: never@millions.com


On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:53 -0800 (PST), Stratum101
<j.collier@cross-comp.com> wrote:

>On Nov 19, 8:44 pm, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, come to find out:
>>
>> {Results 1 - 10 of about 724,000 for "free willy". (0.30 seconds)}
>> from Google Web search.
>
>Of which 723,999 deal with the children's film, give
>or take. Where do you fit in?
>
>"Hal Womack" produces 10,900 results mostly
>having to do with the well known kook whose
>career as Muni bus driver ended after he
>pursued and shot a disagreeable passenger.
>Woo, woo.
>
>Yeah, I know. Bernard Baruch
>instructed your fellow Catholic
>Carl Weiss to shoot Huey Long. A
>post mortem on Weiss showed he had
>a tiny radio implanted in his brain and
>witnesses reported Baruch had been
>seen with a microphone repeating,
>"Shoot Huey."
>

Shoot Huey? Wrong! That was a calll from a local farmer caliing home
the pigs.

DCI


== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 19 2009 11:07 pm
From: Stratum101


On Nov 19, 10:06 pm, ne...@millions.com wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:53 -0800 (PST), Stratum101
>
>
>
>
>
> <j.coll...@cross-comp.com> wrote:
> >On Nov 19, 8:44 pm, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ah, come to find out:
>
> >> {Results 1 - 10 of about 724,000 for "free willy". (0.30 seconds)}
> >> from Google Web search.
>
> >Of which 723,999 deal with the children's film, give
> >or take.  Where do you fit in?
>
> >"Hal Womack" produces 10,900 results mostly
> >having to do with the well known kook whose
> >career as Muni bus driver ended after he
> >pursued and shot a disagreeable passenger.
> >Woo, woo.
>
> >Yeah, I know.  Bernard Baruch
> >instructed your fellow Catholic
> >Carl Weiss to shoot Huey Long.  A
> >post mortem on Weiss showed he had
> >a tiny radio implanted in his brain and
> >witnesses reported Baruch had been
> >seen with a microphone repeating,
> >"Shoot Huey."
>
> Shoot Huey? Wrong! That was a calll from a local farmer caliing home
> the pigs.
>

That was "Hoot suey!".


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