AtD: Catalog Excerpt "punkinroller'd" (was "pinkinroller'd")
davemarc
davemarc at panix.com
Mon Aug 7 10:43:38 CDT 2006
I've gotten a faxed copy of the catalog pages. They're not perfectly clear,
but barring a major transmission/printing problem, they're clear enough to
show that the line is:
"Beg your pardon, what in hell business of any got-damn punkinroller'd this
be, again?"
punkin roller
disparaging term referring to a hokey rodeo
http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/articles/2003/06/26/news/local_headlines/
anews01.prt
punkin' rollers
"Little shows," said Tom. "Local shows where the local boys act like they're
big time."
http://libweb.sfasu.edu/real/vol28-2/punkinroller.htm
So authentic Western gunslinger Jimmy Drop characterizes young Willis as
something of a faker trying to act big time...and not being at all
convincing.
d.
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