GR translation: a cute little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo

[Mark Kohut]

BEST POST OF THE DAY..(Much better for my spirits than your earlier one)
 Smile....
Made my day so far........How you ever found it in regard to GR, is a
mystery you can keep mysterious..enhances your legend.

We may never know but it sure sounds like it could be in GR.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another great song with yoo-hoo-hoo and 2(too)-hoo-hoo that might have
> been in TRP's mind around 1970:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM
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> 2016-01-25 19:16 GMT+01:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:
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>> "Tea for Two," definitely.
>>
>> Yoo-Hoo chocolate beverage: very likely in TRP's mind c. 1970 (and quite
>> possibly in the mix he wanted us to get), but I'd be surprised if it had
>> enough UK presence in 1945 to be in Jeremy's
>>
>> >Jeremy... assumes this is a... nest-building moment between him and
>> Jessica.
>>
>> I can't make that work, as this is the same sentence that begins with
>> Jessica begging off a "romantic triangle" date --- so in "Jeremy seeing
>> it as a cute little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo," the two can only be himself
>> and Roger.
>>
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>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>> Yoo-hoo is also a chocolate drink, invented in New Jersey in the 1920s,
>>> and bottled and more widely distributed at some point in the 1940s (the
>>> history's a little murky). The slogan in the '60s was: "Me-hee for
>>> Yoo-hoo." Has a ring of the old song from No No Nanette, Tea For Two -
>>> specifically the lyrics - you for me and me for you, about setting up house
>>> together. So yoo-hoo for 2-hoo could be a snappier (in the 40s) version of
>>> "tea for two."
>>>
>>> The way I read the sentence, when Jessica seems to be suffering from
>>> morning sickness, Roger assumes that since the baby is his, and he's on the
>>> outs with Jessica, that she'll figure out the most spiteful course of
>>> action (Abortion? Taunting him that his child will be raised by his
>>> rival?). Jeremy, meanwhile, is oblivious to this and assumes this is a
>>> cute, private tea/yoo-hoo-for-two nest-building moment between him and
>>> Jessica.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: Monte Davis
>>>
>>> Sent: Jan 25, 2016 11:33 AM
>>>
>>> To: Mike Weaver
>>>
>>> Cc: Mike Jing , Pynchon Mailing List
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: GR translation: a cute little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo
>>>
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>>>
>>> Yes, this. Especially in  1945, "for 2-hoo" also carries a parodic hint
>>> of saccharine pop-song lyrics ("a cottage for two," "just me and my gal,"
>>> yada yada).
>>> Jeremy, victorious, can afford to think of the encounter as a bluff
>>> manly best-man-won, let-bygones-be-bygones reconciliation.
>>> Roger, wounded and resentful, feels that's almost as far from the truth
>>> as a romantic tete-a-tete would be.
>>> And they settle, as men often do, for talking about safely remote and
>>> "objective" matters instead.
>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> Yoo-hoo is something said, by some, when attracting someone they know's
>>> attention - a cheery hey there. So I'd hazard that P has made this an
>>> ironic comment on Beaver and Roger's antipathy - the two hoo is just to
>>> make the (cute) rhyme.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote :
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>>>
>>> > V709.13-25, P723.15-27   Who saves him (or interferes with his
>>> orgasm)? Why, Jeremy himself. Old Beaver shows up and waves off the heat,
>>> who go surly, fangflashing back to masturbating into Crime Does Not Pay
>>> Comics, gazing dreamy at guardroom pinups of J. Edgar Hoover or whatever it
>>> was they were up to, and the romantic triangle are suddenly all to have
>>> lunch together at the Club. Lunch together? Is this Noel Coward or some
>>> shit? Jessica at the last minute is overcome by some fictitious female
>>> syndrome which both men guess to be morning-sickness, Roger figuring she’ll
>>> do the most spiteful thing she can think of, Jeremy seeing it as a cute
>>> little private yoo-hoo for 2-hoo. So that leaves the fellas alone, to talk
>>> briskly about Operation Backfire, which is the British program to assemble
>>> some A4s and fire them out into the North Sea. What else are they going to
>>> talk about?What is "yoo-hoo for 2-hoo" exactly?
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