IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Also a reference to Tricky Dick's feeble attempt at grooviness on Laugh-In, joining one of their, retrospectively, incredibly lame catch-phrase montages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEhmF-cSi8

Laura



-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

>
>"'I ... can ... dig it!'"
>
>Cyrus: You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs.
>And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members.
>Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not
>organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but
>20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?
>Gang Members: Yeah.
>Cyrus: Can you dig it?
>Gang Members: Yeah!
>Cyrus: Can you dig it?
>Gang Members: YEAH!
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/quotes
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9yEuwohkk
>
>
>"Tumultuous applause from a huge room full of supporters"
>
>Cf. ...
>
>"CHEERING (AFFECTIONATE), CHEERING (AROUSED), HOSTILE MOB in an
>assortment of 22 languages, YESES, NOES, NEGRO SUPPORTERS, WOMEN
>SUPPORTERS, ATHLETIC-- oh, come now--" (GR, Pt. IV, p. 756)
>