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[Bekah]

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Why does Bambi call Doc "Barney?"  Is it a take-off on  Barnum &  
Bailey because of the "entertainment capital" line?  Barney  
Flintstone?   How about "Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly  
eyes"?  That was the 1920s (Barney Google comic strip)  but the phrase  
was kind of popular in my circles ca. 1970.
http://www.szepseg.com/uploaded_images/barney-google-tijuana-bible-744402.jpg

"As Jade told it later, this pimp,  Jason Velveeta,  could have used  
better career counseling."
Yes, I think pimping was probably a pretty slow business in LA 1971.

Jason Velveeta
(translated, imo:  Jason Sleazy Cheese)

Jason has become a scary name ever since the Friday the 13th movies  
but that was in 1980.   So who we have here are "Jason and Ashley" -  
names with a truly  1970s ring - but I think people were naming their  
kids that in 1970 -there weren't a lot of 20 year old Ashley's in  
1970  (I had no friends named Ashley).
http://www.babynameshub.com/baby-names-boys/Jason.html
http://www.babynameshub.com/baby-names-girls/Ashley.html


Back to Velveeta:
http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10
"Velveeta, a notoriously plastic "processed cheese product" is  
probably fueling a roundabout slang joke on "cheddar," used recently  
to mean money, specifically a pimp or dealer's money. Hence, Jason  
Velveeta is not really a very good pimp.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32975
As cheeses go, Velveeta is fake, soft and easily melted. "Jason" is a  
quintessentially middle-class white first name. Velveeta is also  
associated with middle-class white culture in its most unhip and soul- 
free form. See, for example, this recent spoof news story."


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Cheap Mexican weed with stems and seeds is nasty stuff - it stings  
kind of, burns the eyes.   And it can't even take care of Jason's  
headache.  I don't know about "Columbian commercial,"  but Columbian  
in general used to be smoother and more potent due to the soil  
there.   In the 1970s most of the marijuana in the US was imported -  
that's not true anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lm2ie7BOM&feature=related

Btw,  about the apparent shortage of pot - there was a definite drop  
in supply in 1969:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU59.html

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