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AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:01 pm

Bookworm wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:12 pm I always told people that we were looking for the elusive spondulix. It'd been seen in the area, and if they could catch one in a bag (you hand out burlap sacks), there were people that would really like to have it.

Bill Fields fan?

No idea who that might be. I've just always liked reading, and that's a classic phrase from film noir and 40's novels. I mean, if you want to catch a cute tomato, you've got to have plenty of the spondulix.

Bookworm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:20 pm

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:01 pm Bill Fields fan?

No idea who that might be. I've just always liked reading, and that's a classic phrase from film noir and 40's novels. I mean, if you want to catch a cute tomato, you've got to have plenty of the spondulix.

The great William Claude Dukinfield - W.C. Fields

I forget which film.

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:19 pm

Bookworm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:20 pm

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:01 pm Bill Fields fan?

No idea who that might be. I've just always liked reading, and that's a classic phrase from film noir and 40's novels. I mean, if you want to catch a cute tomato, you've got to have plenty of the spondulix.

The great William Claude Dukinfield - W.C. Fields

I forget which film.

Honestly, I can't remember that I've really watched more than one of his films.

Atomic wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:30 pm Now what AM I going to do with my collection of sundries, notions, knick-nacks, tchotchkies, and conversation pieces?

I would suggest that you ought to sell them to your local neighborhood floccinaucinihilipilificator, but I doubt you'd get much for them.

Dave wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:14 pm

Atomic wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:30 pm Now what AM I going to do with my collection of sundries, notions, knick-nacks, tchotchkies, and conversation pieces?

I would suggest that you ought to sell them to your local neighborhood floccinaucinihilipilificator, but I doubt you'd get much for them.

Depends on the rag picker you picked to pick through your products.

Bookworm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:39 pm

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:19 pm

Bookworm wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:20 pm
No idea who that might be. I've just always liked reading, and that's a classic phrase from film noir and 40's novels. I mean, if you want to catch a cute tomato, you've got to have plenty of the spondulix.

The great William Claude Dukinfield - W.C. Fields

I forget which film.

Honestly, I can't remember that I've really watched more than one of his films.

Ah-ha.

It's from "My Little Chickadee". in which he co-starred with Mae West.

There's a story that Fields wrote all of West's dialog and she wrote all of his.

I strongly suspect that Fields' use of the phrase may well have been its origin.

AnotherFairportfan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:49 pm It's from "My Little Chickadee". in which he co-starred with Mae West.

Is that the one where, since they couldn't stand each other, they never appeared in the same scene?

WC was also famous for injecting oranges with gin so he could appear innocent while juicing up for the day's work...

Atomic wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:30 pm WC was also famous for injecting oranges with gin so he could appear innocent while juicing up for the day's work...

“Somebody’s been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!”

Or a famous scene from the TV version of M*A*S*H, Muldoon says "Someone put tea in my tea cup."

Opus the Poet wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:11 pm Or a famous scene from the TV version of M*A*S*H, Muldoon says "Someone put tea in my tea cup."

And in a different scene, Klinger said "Somebody put gasoline in my gasoline!"

One of my drill instructors was named Klinger. The crazy thing is, he was armor, while we were an infantry company.