Ch 15, pages 367/368

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Poolu si begumba
(headhunter speak)

On 4/16/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> A--and, Gilligan's Island has been said to be an American pop cutural
> spin on ....................O Brave New [TV] World!---, The Tempest!
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> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:29:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Ch 15, pages 367/368
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> It's a jump ahead, but wotthehell wotthehell:
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>     "Hnof ikh, Angh-ah!"
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>     "My own adorable grandchild," slinging the girl's head gently away
>     at last. "I want you to sing the 'Gilligan's Island' theme for your
>     mother," she commanded.
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>     "Grandma!"
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>     "First time she ever noticed the Tube, remember, Frenesi? A tiny
>     thing, less than four months old—Gilligan's Island' was on,
>     Prairie, and your eyes may've been a little unfocused yet, but you
>     sat there, so serious, and watched the whole thing—"
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>     "Stop, I-don't-want-to-hear-this—"
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>     "—after that, whenever the show came on, you'd smile and gurgle
>     and rock back and forth, so cute, like you wanted to climb inside
>     the television set, and right onto that Island—"
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>     "Please—" She looked to Frenesi for help, but her mother looked
>     as bewildered as she felt.
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> My first words were "Hamms" followed by "Beer,"—that "from the land of
> sky-blue waters" jingle burning its way into my consciousness right from the
> start:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g
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> On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:
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>> A cousin of mine and I both remember pretty much every jingle that we
>> heard
>> as children, which is not altogether pleasant.  Neither one of us made any
>> attempt to memorize them.
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>> In retrospect, my favorite jingle campaign was "You can take Salem out of
>> the country, but... you can't take the country out of Salem."  After
>> everyone had heard it enough times that they knew it well, they sang "You
>> can take Salem out of the country, but..." paused, and then rang a bell,
>> ding!  That made the internal singing of the jingle even stronger!
>> Brilliant!
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>> When you say "Bud..."
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>> Henry Musikar
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