Tuesday, February 10, 2004

 
Cartoon & Castorini Land
Or: "Denial" ain't a river in the Fertile Crescent
Or: Is it a lead pipe cinch that copper is the peoples' choice?
Or: Yum, yum - Dim Sum of all Fidos(2.)

Caught up on the massive sleep deficit bequeathed to the "Morning Me"this morning and afternoon and just got in from the Monday Evening shift and have only random bon "jots"-
-thought of V.D. Hanson's description of Saddam(described in a previous blog here as someone who might have gone back to eyeing little gulf states with bad intent ala Aqualung) as a WMD and the non-threatening nature of Blair's and France's force de frappes(pl.?)as I read today's Doonesbury: One college guy(I don't read it carefully enough to note the names of the principals), employed as an "intern" for the CIA, when told by another college guy that it must be a bad time to be a "baby spook," replies, "Well, I think the agency will be O.K. as long as he[Bush] stays in denial.....I mean he's still convinced we found evidence of 'WMD-related activity.'" Other guy: "What's that?" CIA college-guy-intern: "Bad thoughts." Other [slacker]college guy: Well, that's how it starts, isn't it?"I'm with VDH on this one, although I suspect that he and the rest of the NRO gang wish that I was on the other side.
I don't have much advice to give to Jonah"Bonah"G.(btw., the heck with "Buck Rogers"-check out "Flesh Gordon"- 1973)in his repiping decision and may not have spotted a er, crack, in the felonius facade of the pantheon o' pumbers(or of refridgerator repairmen for that matter) postulated by Derbyshire, but can't resist squeezing or, if you will, "sweating" more out of the movie, "Moonstruck"(see previous blog of "Amore"(Eel, Maury, Chung et al.)). Plumbing contractor, "Cosmo Castorini" is trying to sell some yuppie(or was it DINK?)couple plagued by trickle down hydraulics: "There are three kinds of pipe. There's aluminum,[or "aluminium" for you Stuttafords & Derbyshires or "non-transparent aluminum" for you baleen-lovin' Trekkies] which is garbage. There's bronze, which is pretty good, unless something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. Then, there's copper, which is the only pipe I use. It costs money. It costs money because it saves money." Btw., a not-so-recognizable cognate for "lead" is "plumber" and it's a cinch that one doe not want to contract, like the alledgedly birth-dearthed aristocrats of ancient Rome, "plumbism."
Moving back from the world of celluloid to the cartoon cells of the (barely)multicellular, I'm reminded of an old email or blogservation that Spongebob's employer, Mr. Crab, though a penny-pincher is no Scrooge McDuck. (Granted, I knew neither John F. Kennedy nor Mr. McDuck personally) It should also be noted that while Spongebob is almost always an enthusiastic employee(giving the lie the slander that their are some jobs that Americans(will assume that "Bikini Bottom," like "Bikini Atoll," though less radioactive, is an American possession)won't do.)of the Crusty Crab, regarding his job as much, much more than a paycheck, whereas Derbydour's atoll ego, Squidward, is a fit-to-be cashiered, -at best indifferent cashier, who has something of the attitude, "squid pro quo."*(1.)

*-sorta rhymes with "farrago"-getting the munchies again. Many probably remember the "review" of a "German-Chinese Restaurant" many years ago: "The food is great, but an hour later you're hungry for power." And how about the diverse delicacies that might be wolfed down at a Chinese-Italian eaterie? - Chef's Special: "Cosmo Calamari" -Well, no one or thing's the wiser here; unlike the owners of Cosmo and Boris, I don't share scraps from my table talk with my wife's old Shitzu(who(the dog)appears to be mostly fat and gristle.
1. AOL 9.0 users have the option of hearing what seems to be the voice of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter say, "Clarice, is that you? and "Hey, you've got mail...goody..goody," and "Bye-sy, byesy, see ya' round."
2. Apologies to Damon Wayans and Tom Clancy and also for the previous wretched "Mo Money-Mow Money" thing.