AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Willis says "Trust me, I'm an osteopath", and Jimmy mistakes that as an 
admission of some sort of religious affiliation (i.e., Jimmy thinks 
Willis is saying he's trustworthy because he's a religious man). So 
Jimmy replies, "It's OK, we're open-minded, couple of boys in the 
outfit are evangelicals ... " Boom boom. It's a pretty lame joke. (But 
the "Trust me, I'm an osteopath" line has a nice sense of the absurd 
about it.)

The "pinkinroller" insult comes before that card is on the table I 
think. The sense I had was that Jimmy only notices Willis again when he 
says "I can fix that". Jimmy looks up, sees Willis approaching, sees 
what he thinks is a roller from a pinking tool in Willis's hand, and 
says what he says. I think that, if Willis was still waving the gun 
around as he approached, Jimmy's response would have been quite 
different. And I doubt that Willis would want to hold the gun for any 
longer than necessary. But it's certainly plausible that Jimmy's insult 
refers back to the gun ("great big pistol" -- sarcastic), and/or to 
Willis ("little lady" -- sarcastic) as the holder of that gun.

And, admittedly, Willis doesn't seem to have anything at all in his 
"lilywhites" when he fixes Jimmy's back. On that basis, I think Paul's 
reading probably is the best fit to the text.

best

On 06/08/2006, at 12:34 PM, terrance fitzgerald wrote:

> got damned      .....  evangelicals.
>  
> there has got to be a "religious connection" in that reply that some 
> is evangelicals. it seems to imply that pinkinroller is akin to 
> holy-roller.
>  
> holy roller?
>  
> my guess is that "pinkinroller" is a religious slur.
> maybe a bunch of faith-healers who serve up some kinda pepto-bismo 
> colored cure.
>  
> or maybe, if it isn't RELIFIOS, it's got somthin to do wit the WORK 
> the person does.
>
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