'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism

[Mark Kohut]

Monte,

Look what I found, that I had forgotten for sure, while looking around:
A post of yours from Feb 15, 2007 on this list with another meaning to 
"mad dog"!

Small bottles of cheap fortified wines are known on the street as "short
dogs," "mickeys," "poneys," [sic] and "mad dogs."---Monte Davis

Yes, That Russell was not even close to deserving the phrase, even with this meaning
is yes, yes, yes, why it was used, I agree....

Mark





----- Original Message ----
From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:11:42 PM
Subject: RE: 'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism


Mark sez:
 
> I am going to risk being way wrong in suggesting 
> some reason(s) why TRP may have used the term "Mad Dog" 
> w/r/t Bertrand Russell.  
 
All good. As champion of the obvious, I'll add that
 
1) a purely joke-y anachronistic reference to Noel Coward's 1932 song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (namesake for a Joe Cocker album in 1971) would not be too weird from the author who in Mason & Dixon invented the 18th century idiom "simpleton silver" (chump change), and created a Hudson Valley Girl who sprinkles "as" where her descendants will sprinkle "like"....
 
2) for the kind of Krazy Kutup who would do that, your point -- that "BR wasn't even close to deserving the phrase" -- might appear to be be all the more reason for applying it.
 
As B4,
 
G.E. "Wild & Crazy" Moore
Ludwig "Big Mouth" Wittgenstein


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