50 Great Voices: Help Us Choose

[rich]

am I the only schlub who actually had a business card that said

Wile E. Coyote
Super Genius

I've liked some of his stories--definitely will check out that one
thx, man

rich

On 11/4/09, John Pendergast <jpender at siue.edu> wrote:
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> 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
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> rich wrote:
>> where's Mel Blanc?
>>
>> "singing in the bathtub"   a classic
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29Piu3bfe4
>>
>> how can one not love this shit. in times of no dope, this'll do
>>
>> rich
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114013402
>>>
>>>
>>>
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