Re: blasts from the pasts

[Bradley Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

At 10:10 AM 11/30/00 -0800, Jim Morrison wrote:
> >
> > Sock it to me Dvorak.
>
> "Sock it to me Dvorak" is an absolutely hilarious phrase.

Do you know Peter Schickele's (PDQ Bach's) "Missa hilarious" ?  The chorus
sings "Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, sock it to me, sock it to me, Gloria!" in
the Gloria section.  The Credo section includes "Et in Spi--i--i--i--ro Agnew."

And who can forget "Laugh-In" with Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, 1968 to
1973?  (Those of you outside North America, you're *fortunate*.)  Did that
show actually start the phrase "sock it to me," or did they pick up
something that was already going?
http://www.timvp.com/laughin.html
http://members.nbci.com/TVBreak/laugh-in.html

This is of course the milieu of some of the Gouldian humour.  Sock it to
me, Teddy Slutz!



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