>> I think that they realize that the end of the world
>> comes not with a bang or a whimper. It comes
>> ridiculously, with Bubba having one foot on a banana peel,
>> on the edge of abyss, and the Fall of Man being a
>> comic prat-fall.
>> Tom Keske
>>
>
> A point, to be sure.
> After which come the big, whimpering clown-tears, cf. Stan Laurel,
> Curly Howard, Marcel Marceau, Garth Brooks...
>
I am thinking of Spike Jones doing "Pal-Yat-Chee".
His next greatest song was "Wanna Buy a Bunny",
by George Rock in his little-girl voice. Hilarious.
I saw a reference to "Longfellow", below, but I think
it is talking about some other fellow named Longfellow.
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2. Spike Jones Can't Stop Murdering
A sign spelled out Pal-Yat-Chee up in lights
above a show. ... When we listen to Pal-Yat-Chee
we get itchy an' scratchy.
This shore is top corn so we go and ...
www.ibras.dk/comedy/spike3.htm
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http://www.gingergeezer.net/Articles/timeout.html
I agree. I once spent a day abord his WWI submarine chaser
moored on the Thames at Chertsey, worried about his shipmates,
the tarantula and the python now coiled in the bilges,
and Mr Bones his farting bulldog. I liked his companion,
the beautiful Native American Longellow, and only swam
with Stanshall after first, like Blondell, calming him with
readings from Wyndham Lewis's 'The Apes of God' which
I had brought along because the beat of the prose reminded
me of his 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'. 'Wonderful!' he cried.
This was an era rich in comical absurdist bands
very much following the tradition of Spike Jones
Longfellow recalled her first date with Stanshall
who struck her as a 'fin de siecle ponce,
green everything from floppy beret to velvet knickerbockers
to the bows on his pumps'. When they finally broke up,
he lived alone, letting dossers sleep wherever in his house.
They robbed him. 'I thought they were going up and
down stairs a lot,' he later mused. His decline was
saddening. He was buried under the pseuduonym of
St John Davers.
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