AtD: Catalog Excerpt "punkinroller'd" (was "pinkinroller'd")

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, good call, thanks, all, that's what we're here
for.  If anyone should be attuned to the vagaries,
caprices, what have you, of information ...

   "Thank you, Mrs. Edna Mosh....This is KCUF Mobile
Two, sending it back now to 'Rabbit' Warren, at the
studio." He cut his power. Something was not quite
right.
   "Edna Mosh?" Oedipa said.
   "It'll come out the right way," Mucho said. "I was
allowing for the distortion on these rigs, and then
when they put it on tape." (Lot 49, p. 139)

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:

> 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.

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