GRGR 5: Hey, Wait Up for Me!

[Paul Mackin]

>From Alan W: (in response to Don)

Bet you never did "The 'Pequod' meets 'THE'," Rose-bud!

The Rose-bud episode of M-D is full of references to excrement and toilets:
the Rose-bud's surgeon has sequestered himself in the Captain's privy because
he prefers its stench of shit to the malodor of putrescent whales; Stubb
refers to the Rose-bud's crew as "Crappoes of Frenchmen"...prefiguring not
just the "Kenosha Kid" toilet-sequence, but also the magnificent Toiletship!
Yes, foax, everything *is* connected!

And not to forget a few episodes from now (p. 104) where Blicero recalls for Gottfried "Your little rosebud bloomed."

Gore Vidal takes credit from introducing this usage to the reading public.
Anyway, I think that's what he meant.

					P.