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Sun Dec-19-04 10:10 PM
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| Slowly I turn... step by step... inch by inch.. |
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Towards madness! I'm sorry to be a killjoy, but i can't wait for Christmas to be over.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:11 PM
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I am exhausted. I hope I can even stay up to watch "Desperate Housewives" tonight. Last night I fell asleep on the couch - I don't even know when. These retail hours are a killer.
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| proud2BlibKansan
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:15 PM
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| 2. Isn't that a line from |
| Sanity Claws
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:17 PM
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| 3. I remember it from the Three Stooges |
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Moe did it but he seemed to be tapping into something people knew at the time.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:17 PM
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| 4. I'm not even sure of it's origin. |
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:19 PM
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I believe it is The 3 Stooges
How quickly I forget.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:18 PM
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I can't remember the word that set them off though. I think it was a city name.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:22 PM
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| 7. NI-ag-a-ra Falls! Slowly I turned... |
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Edited on Sun Dec-19-04 10:23 PM by mcscajun
Inch by inch...step by step...
The Stooges did it, Abbott & Costello did it...it's an old vaudeville routine.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:26 PM
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I knew it didn't originate with the Stooges.
Well, it's still stupid, no matter where it originated.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:24 PM
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: : : It's from a Three Stooges movie, "Gents Without Cents" made in 1944. Curly says
"Niagra Falls" and Moe (who was under some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion? I don't
remember) turns on him and launches into the speech. (I dunno. Seemed funny when I was
a kid.) See www.imdb.com for good sources of movie quotes, trivia, etc.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:27 PM
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| 12. Also in 1944, Abbott & Costello in "Lost in a Harem" |
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only when they did it in that film, they used "Pokomo" in place of "Niagara Falls."
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:26 PM
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| 11. Slowly I turn... step by step... inch by inch.. |
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:39 PM
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Memory insists that the original trigger word back in the vaudeville days was "Constantinople."
Of course, I only know this from seeing a recreation of the act on tv when I was a kid, but I'm still sure it predates the Three Stooges version.
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Sun Dec-19-04 10:40 PM
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| 14. I am so totally with you..... |
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5 days with my Monster-in-Law and my Freeper-in-Law is going to drive me MAD! MAD I TELL YOU!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
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