Tarantino

[rich]

 "bugs' (in drag) monsters are such interesting people skit not funny?

beats reading sontag anyday

rich

On 1/8/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> The truth is, they're not really funny.  Bugs et al. are like annoying
> relatives that you hang out with because you love them and have stuff in
> common with them.  Personally, I'm solidly in the Daffy camp -- bitter,
> negative, a tad paranoid.
>
> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
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>>Oi Vey! What have I started?!
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>>Great stuff on RoadRunner/ACME/WWII Joe.
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>>But in my original Tarantino post, all I said was Pulp Fiction was about
>>as *realistic* as [first thing that came into my head=] Bugs Bunny. I
>>never said those cartoons weren't no good, Doc.
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>>In fact I loved them as a kid and love them now and intend to make sure
>>my son gets exposed to them in preference to the muck of Disney. Growing
>>up in the UK, we never really got (in either sense) Donald Duck, Mickey
>>Mouse etc., at least not as much as I imagine our American cousins did.
>>I don't recall ever finding those Disney cartoons funny, whereas
>>everybody over here loved Bugs, Road Runner, Tom & Jerry........
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