GRGR(9): Location of the Casino

JL trailerman at cableinet.co.uk
Thu Sep 9 02:12:14 CDT 1999


terrance:
>
>Keith Woodward wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, should have mentioned that...
>> 
>> The casino, according to Weisenberger, is in Monaco.  
>
>
>When are we according to Weisenburger?  [ ... snip]

actually, weisenburger seems to miss the most obvious pointer
to monaco; at 203.33 ' as I walk along the Bwa-deboolong ' is
a reference to _The Man Who Broke The Bank at Monte Carlo_ by
Charles Coburn :

 I've just got here, thro' Paris, from the sunny southern shore; 
 I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's rent.
 Dame Fortune smil'd upon me as she'd never done before, 
 And I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent.
 Yes, I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent.

 I stay indoors till after lunch, and then my daily walk 
 To the great Triumphal Arch is one grand Triumphal march,
 Observ'd by each observer with the keenness of a hawk, 
 I'm mass of money, linen, silk and starch.
 I'm mass of money, linen, silk and starch.

 I patronized the tables at the Monte Carlo hell 
 Till they hadn't got a sou for a Christian or a Jew;
 So I quickly went to Parie for the charms of mad'moiselle,
 Who's the lodestone of my heart. What can I do? 
 When with twenty tongues she swears that she'll be true?

 CHORUS
 As I walk along the Bois Boolong, with an independent air,
 You can hear them sigh and wish to die,
 You can see them wink the other eye,
 At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

JL




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