Sock Puppertry

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

trivia from Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation:

the last word of the play (as opposed to the last word, which was probably tyrannis) that Lincoln heard may have been "sockdollagizing" which apparently meant the same kind of thing as sock puppetry, in particular applied to interfering hostesses that would run people's lives for them...

she (SV) read her own book for Books on Tape, and she tells the actual joke from the script -- it sounded like a pretty lame joke and sexist to boot -- 



 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brawner [mailto:mark.brawner at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 8, 2006 10:01 PM
> To: 'David Morris', pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Sock Puppertry
> 
> On 9/5/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From The Washington Monthly Blog:
> >
> > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
> >
> > PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT....If you are tempted to create a fake
> > screen name and use it to comment favorably on stuff you yourself have
> > written on the internet — the kids call this "sock puppetry" — don't.
> >
> > Who knew it had  a name?
> 
> You mean besides jbor?  :)
> 
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0607&msg=102871&keywords=sock%20puppetry
> 
>