vineland text search

Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Wed Sep 3 11:16:22 CDT 1997


Penny Padgett quotes:

>   Billy Barf, whose acquaintance with anything Italian was limited
>   to the deuteragonist of Donkey Kong and a few canned-pasta
>   commercials, insisted on speaking with his imperfect idea of
>   an ethnic accent until Isaiah Two Four, detecting not only its
>   inauthenticity but also its potential for insult, drew the young
>   band eponym aside for a word or two, though Ralph Jr., who had
>   talked Californian all his life, had only taken it for some kind
>   of speech impediment.

So, where are all those people who said Vineland was no good?


Andrew Dinn
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