50 Great Voices: Help Us Choose

[John Pendergast]

If you like this kind of stuff, and who doesn't, the first story in 
Steven Millhauser's collection Dangerous Laughter, "Cat 'n Mouse", may 
the funniest thing you will ever read.

John Pendergast

rich wrote:
> where's Mel Blanc?
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> "singing in the bathtub"   a classic
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29Piu3bfe4
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> how can one not love this shit. in times of no dope, this'll do
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> rich
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> Wile E. Coyote leaves a telephone at the hole of his neighbor, Bugs
> Bunny. He calls, asking to borrow a cup of diced carrots. Bugs'
> whiskers twitch as he sarcastically looks at Wile's mailbox ("Wile E.
> Coyote - Genius"), and realizes what he's up against. He then mocks
> him: "Are you in, genius? Are you in, capable? In, solent? In,
> describable? In, bearable?..." Wile grabs Bugs and ties him to a stake
> as he prepares to cook Bugs, but Bugs gets the upper hand by hopping
> on the floorboards, setting off a wine cork that, after it ricochets
> around the room, triggers Wile's wall bed that crushes the Coyote.
> Bugs makes his getaway and hops back to his hole.
>
> Wile then tries a vacuum cleaner to suck up the rabbit, getting a
> dynamite decoy instead; a cannon shot, which Bugs re-directs at the
> Coyote, and "Quick-Drying Cement" (Bugs causes the Coyote to fall
> inside the pan).
>
> The final attempt is a 10 trillion-volt electric magnet, which Wile E.
> Coyote turns on after leaving a metal carrot in Bugs' hole (hoping the
> bunny can eat the carrot and then be pulled by the magnet to his
> waiting predator). Bugs tricks him and sends the carrot right back at
> Wile E. However, the Coyote doesn't expect the magnet to attract
> everything else with metal properties — Bugs' mailbox, barbed wire,
> knives, street lamps, buses, ocean liners, the Eiffel Tower,
> satellites and finally, a Mercury rocket trying to blast off into
> space — his way. The rocket lodges in Wile E's cave and explodes,
> sending the coyote into oblivion as Bugs looks on.
>
> On 11/4/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 50 Great Voices: Help Us Choose
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>> In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 great
>> voices in recorded history. The series isn't an attempt to catalog the
>> so-called "greatest" singers. Instead, we hope to discover and
>> re-discover awe-inspiring vocalists from around the world and across
>> time. We asked you to nominate artists for the series and we received
>> thousands of options. NPR and a panel of experts are in the process of
>> whittling them down to about 100 singers — a mix of familiar names and
>> surprising discoveries. Explore some of the nominated voices below,
>> choose five favorites you think should be included in the final 50 and
>> tell us why.
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>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114013402
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