VLVL2 (15): "Where's the-Beef?"

[Dave Monroe]

   "'You know Clara Peller, the lady in the burger
commercial goin 'Where's the-beef? Where's the-beef?'
well that's exactly my problem with you and Brock. 
How bad could it be?  How personal?  His dick was too
short?' 
   "She guffawed quietly...." (VL, Ch. 15, p. 350)


Clara Peller

Clara Peller - Gray-haired, four-foot, eleven-inch
octogenarian spokeswoman for Wendy's (a hamburgers
fast food restaurant) seen nationwide in 1984-85 in a
series of popular commercials created by the Dancer,
Fitzgerald and Sample Ad Agency. Senior citizen
actress Clara Peller played a crusty old lady who
slapped the counters of neighborhood hamburger joints
and loudly asked the probing question "Where's the
Beef!", which implied that the only place in town
where Ms.Pellar could get a hamburger with an ample
portion of "beef" was at Wendy's....

http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_clarapeller.htm


guffawed

Main Entry: guf·faw 
Pronunciation: (")g&-'fo, 'g&-"fo
Function: noun
Etymology: imitative
: a loud or boisterous burst of laughter
- guf·faw  /(")g&-'fo/ intransitive verb

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=guffaw


"Mrs. Fletcher"

??--let me know ...


Perez Prado

Though diminutive in stature, Pérez Prado was a giant
in the world of post-war popular music. Dubbed "The
Mambo King," he reigned supreme as one of the most
influential pop orchestra leaders of the early 1950s.
As the mambo rhythm spread across the continents, a
society emerged from the dark years of World War II to
shed it's inhibitions and embrace the frenzy of this
Afro-Cuban beat. 

http://www.laventure.net/tourist/prez_bio.htm

And see as well ...

http://www.spaceagepop.com/prado.htm

http://www.slipcue.com/music/cuba/prado.html


"the pink slip to his heart"

p. 350 "the pink slip to his heart" = title of
ownership. Before the days of automobile titles, the
portion of a California car registration that conveyed
ownership was colored pink. Hence the brag in the
Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" about "I got the pink
slip, daddy!" (meaning, "I'm holding the paperwork
required to stake the LDC on a streetlight drag race,
so whatchu waitin' for, dude?")

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm


	
		
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