AtDTDA 32: lead soldier, pounded! was Fantasia on a Fantasia pt 3

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu May 15 19:37:01 CDT 2008


Mark Kohut wrote:
> Well, I change my vote.......It makes more sense that Ruperta pounds the
> soldier...
> I could/can not understand why TRP did not say she pounded IT.....

thanks for quantifying my confusion! Apparently young Clive thinks of
the soldier as "he" (reference Michael Richards playing with army men
on the Tonight Show, using personal pronouns rather than "it"
and my childhood friends the Twins who named
some of their plastic army men...)



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