Possible concordance update

[robkelk]

I was browsing the http://www.archive.org/]Internet Archive and came across something that I recalled linked into the concordance for DWII.

Here's the concordance entry, from Chapter 10:

What am I doing?
Although not intended as such when I was writing, several readers have noted that this is also a quote of a classic Bugs Bunny line, perhaps best known from Falling Hare, an early 1940s cartoon where Bugs finds himself "helping" a gremlin try to explode a blockbuster bomb with a big mallet.

Falling Hare is from 1943. I've just discovered that there's http://www.archive.org/details/merry_me ... lling_hare]a Public Domain copy of the cartoon available on the Internet Archive.

Bob, since you didn't intend the reference, I don't know whether you want to mention where to find the PD copy of the short...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Oh, why not? The link's been added and the update already uploaded as I type. Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

You're welcome!
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

*shatters* OMG... It's been too long since I saw that particular scene from that cartoon. ^_^

[Star Ranger4]

Its also one of the few ones where Bugs plays the straightman...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Black Aeronaut]

Yeah, no kidding. Aren't those some of the best ones, though? It's a welcome change to see Bugs get his now and then instead of poor Daffy. Of course,
you just gotta love how this toon in particular ends...

"Sorry foolks. we ran out of gas."

"Yeeaaaah. You know how id iz wit deez "A" cahrds."

[Ebony]

blackaeronaut wrote:

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"Sorry foolks. we ran out of gas."


"Yeeaaaah. You know how id iz wit deez "A" cahrds."

A joke that is, sadly, lost on later generations who don't know about wartime rationing.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[Foxboy]

I was lucky and got to watch those cartoons with my grandparents who explained some of the jokes and the celebrities who'd died before I saw their
caricatures.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Black Aeronaut]

Yeah, it's usually the best people to do it with. After all, people there age actually got to sit in the theatres and watch that stuff. The moviegoing
experience was a whole different animal back then. You didn't just get a movie - you also got a few shorts and toons, a newsreel or two, and even a tub of
popcorn!

[robkelk]

Well, you can still get the tub of popcorn...

(And if you go to the Bytowne (the "art house" cinema in Ottawa), you can even get real butter on the popcorn!)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012