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

[Ya Sam]

Despite the new revelation, it seems to me the neologism 'pinkinroller' has 
deserved the right to exist, too much effort has neen invested in its 
explication.


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: davemarc <davemarc at panix.com>, Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: AtD: Catalog Excerpt "punkinroller'd" (was "pinkinroller'd")
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 09:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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