Berties real purpose
 

Scout wrote:

Second endings are all the rage in Hollywood these days.
FINALE: The singing is over. A pathetic looking character walks barefoot to
center stage, he wears a plain, dull, and overly worn sock on each hand, and
an equally pathetic but matching sock-hat on his head. They are an
accumulated set, and a large portion of his amassed fortune. The audience
can easily see that finding and matching all three, for him, is a crowning
achievement. He lifts his left hand to hide his lips in standard
ventriloquial form, but the smell of the putrid sock makes him retch. He
regains his composure and attempts to animate its mate. This time the sock
comes alive. And this is what it says to him: "You have ruined us, miserable
puppeteer!"
Years of knee-jerk replies leave him able to pull from his limited lexicon
the following, meaningless reply, "Fjckwit!"
He falls to his knees, covering eyes and nostrils with both hands, and
retches harder. He looks up to the audience for a sign of compassion, and
finding none, blurts into his socks, "bUnn yip!"
CURTAIN.
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
Nah. Bertie arrived long after the high drama.

What I said.

Scout, you're expending too much effort on this one. Look us up a
NY agent and we'll get him to sell another good idea for a
musical. Bobsprit won't co-operate.
--
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Berties real purpose
 

Scout, it's _pathos_ we need, not bathos.

FT

Scout wrote:

p.s.,
as the curtain closes on the impotent loser, Little Anthony & The Imperials
can be heard softly singing:

"I'm on the outside looking in
I don' wanna be, I don' wanna be left on the outside all alone
Well, I guess I've had my day as you left me go my way
Now it's me who has to pay"

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
BUnyip and his Bunyippies have had their snouts
pressed despairingly to the window throughout, their cries
for notice lost on the cyberwinds.

--
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-------------------------
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Berties real purpose
 

It's not so much a bathos as it is anachronistic. It's the petty loser
foreboding the real tragedy to come. The audience will wonder what kind of
world could have produced this loser. But it's more of a one act play. It
could work as an opener, a lead in. Ya know, have the curtain close behind
the limp lamo, face down in his own vomit. Bob could still open your opera,
I think he'd work with you on that. He comes out as the clean up man,
throws some sawdust on the corpse, and with a stiff pushbroom, slowly sweeps
the pile of Bunyip offstage (limp actor pulled with wires). Bob looks up and
says to the audience, "What, you think this is tragedy? No no! Stick around
friends."

Oh ok, I won't try to force it. But truly, this is no effort at all, as it
was already written for me. I'm enjoying it too much to call it work.
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
Scout, you're expending too much effort on this one. Look us up a
NY agent and we'll get him to sell another good idea for a
musical. Bobsprit won't co-operate.

Berties real purpose
 

Even no effort at all is too much in the present case. Besides,
we'd lose our "G" rating, again. Anyway, Seahag opening the show
is much more balanced, really, and I'd hate the audience to
confuse Bobsprit with the janitor.

FT

Scout wrote:

It's not so much a bathos as it is anachronistic. It's the petty loser
foreboding the real tragedy to come. The audience will wonder what kind of
world could have produced this loser. But it's more of a one act play. It
could work as an opener, a lead in. Ya know, have the curtain close behind
the limp lamo, face down in his own vomit. Bob could still open your opera,
I think he'd work with you on that. He comes out as the clean up man,
throws some sawdust on the corpse, and with a stiff pushbroom, slowly sweeps
the pile of Bunyip offstage (limp actor pulled with wires). Bob looks up and
says to the audience, "What, you think this is tragedy? No no! Stick around
friends."

Oh ok, I won't try to force it. But truly, this is no effort at all, as it
was already written for me. I'm enjoying it too much to call it work.
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
Scout, you're expending too much effort on this one. Look us up a
NY agent and we'll get him to sell another good idea for a
musical. Bobsprit won't co-operate.

Berties real purpose
 

They spawn more and more socks which only
demonstrate their hopelessness as puppeteers

For years now, I've wondered about the disappearance of socks into my
washing machine...a match goes in; one comes out. Thank you, Taddy, for
clearing this up. My washing machine is spawning all this sock
peppetry...I'm going down to the laundry room to blow it up now.

--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Berties real purpose
 

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
: "Steve Leyland" wrote in
: :
:
:: Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
::: "Mike" wrote in
::: :
:::
::::
:::: "two wheels" wrote in message
:::: ...
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::::: Hash: SHA1
:::::
::::: On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 05:06:55 GMT, "Mike"
::::: wrote:
:::::
:::::: I used to think was to rid the internet, or at least usenet, of
:::::: idiots who messed up newsgroups. I actually thought he was
:::::: pretty good at it, and kinda cheered him on. I thought of him
:::::: like a crusader bunyip. Lately he seems like he may have a more
:::::: sinister agenda? Did you guys **** him off?
:::::
:::::
:::::
::::: No. I think it's just alt.sailing.asa's turn to have digital colon
::::: cancer. Either a surgeon(s) will show up with some big scalpels, or
::::: alt.sailing.asa will just puke it's guts out and die.
:::::
::::: Calling Doctor Warren.... Calling Doctor Warren.....
:::::
::::: two wheels
:::::
:::::
:::: you may very well be right.
:::
:::
::: He might. It's seldom pretty but it often works.
::
:: in fact it sometimes can get quite ugly.
:::
:
: True, but it's got a funky kind of appeal at the same time.

I do so love to boogie to a funky tune.
:
: Bertie

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So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.

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Berties real purpose
 

"Steve Leyland" wrote in
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
: "Steve Leyland" wrote in
: :
:
:: Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
::: "Mike" wrote in
::: :
:::
::::
:::: "two wheels" wrote in message
:::: ...
::::: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
::::: Hash: SHA1
:::::
::::: On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 05:06:55 GMT, "Mike"
::::: wrote:
:::::
:::::: I used to think was to rid the internet, or at least usenet, of
:::::: idiots who messed up newsgroups. I actually thought he was
:::::: pretty good at it, and kinda cheered him on. I thought of him
:::::: like a crusader bunyip. Lately he seems like he may have a more
:::::: sinister agenda? Did you guys **** him off?
:::::
:::::
:::::
::::: No. I think it's just alt.sailing.asa's turn to have digital colon
::::: cancer. Either a surgeon(s) will show up with some big scalpels, or
::::: alt.sailing.asa will just puke it's guts out and die.
:::::
::::: Calling Doctor Warren.... Calling Doctor Warren.....
:::::
::::: two wheels
:::::
:::::
:::: you may very well be right.
:::
:::
::: He might. It's seldom pretty but it often works.
::
:: in fact it sometimes can get quite ugly.
:::
:
: True, but it's got a funky kind of appeal at the same time.

I do so love to boogie to a funky tune.
:

And me

Bertie

Berties real purpose
 

Flying Tadpole wrote in
:

Scout, it's _pathos_ we need, not bathos.

I wouldn't underestimate yourselves.

Bertie

FT

Scout wrote:

p.s.,
as the curtain closes on the impotent loser, Little Anthony & The
Imperials can be heard softly singing:

"I'm on the outside looking in
I don' wanna be, I don' wanna be left on the outside all alone
Well, I guess I've had my day as you left me go my way
Now it's me who has to pay"

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
BUnyip and his Bunyippies have had their snouts
pressed despairingly to the window throughout, their cries
for notice lost on the cyberwinds.

Berties real purpose
 

"katysails" wrote in news:bh6ogf$uopj0$1@ID-
178897.news.uni-berlin.de:

They spawn more and more socks which only
demonstrate their hopelessness as puppeteers


Aaaargh!

Would someone here please look up the definiton of a sock in usenet?

Bertei





For years now, I've wondered about the disappearance of socks into my
washing machine...a match goes in; one comes out. Thank you, Taddy, for
clearing this up. My washing machine is spawning all this sock
peppetry...I'm going down to the laundry room to blow it up now.

Berties real purpose
 

"Scout" wrote in
:

Second endings are all the rage in Hollywood these days.
FINALE: The singing is over. A pathetic looking character walks
barefoot to center stage, he wears a plain, dull, and overly worn sock
on each hand, and an equally pathetic but matching sock-hat on his
head. They are an accumulated set, and a large portion of his amassed
fortune. The audience can easily see that finding and matching all
three, for him, is a crowning achievement. He lifts his left hand to
hide his lips in standard ventriloquial form, but the smell of the
putrid sock makes him retch. He regains his composure and attempts to
animate its mate. This time the sock comes alive. And this is what it
says to him: "You have ruined us, miserable puppeteer!"
Years of knee-jerk replies leave him able to pull from his limited
lexicon the following, meaningless reply, "Fjckwit!"
He falls to his knees, covering eyes and nostrils with both hands, and
retches harder. He looks up to the audience for a sign of compassion,
and finding none, blurts into his socks, "bUnn yip!"
CURTAIN.
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote
Nah. Bertie arrived long after the high drama.


You think I read these?

I'm just wondering.

Bertie