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November 13, 2007: Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny"
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Listener comments!
paul:
Uncle Mert:
Taylor Jessen:
Roy S:
about time you had your own show
Adam:
Albert Cheswick Hardley:
We once had a lodger, and he was so old
That he was a Codger, or so I am told.
My grandfather Roger to Codger he sold
A rusty old saw and a sack of fool's gold.
When my sister Ophelia the Codger she saw
She pounced on the see-saw, for such was the law.
The law says a see-saw will save from the claw
Of a Codger a maiden who fears ma and pa.
For her bles-sed old ma knows a Codger will dodge
Her entreaties to save her from losing her bra
And its contents. "Ophelia," croaked Codger, come, draw
Near my nonsense. I feel ya, Come soak in my spa."
(ancient folk song collected by E. C. Grobb, Professor of Folklore, Indiana Univ., as sung by Homer Hooch, a rudabaga farmer in Skunksplatt Hollow, W, Va., Jan. 13, 1959. Used by permission.)
N.B. May I suggest singing to the melody of Erin-go-bragh.
sgl
Patrick:
Patrick:
May:
BoopBoopyDoop:
Helen Kane had many impersonators, Mae was one of them. Clara Bow had nothing to do with the first part of Betty's creation in Dizzy Dishes, due to the fact that Betty was a complete caricature of Kane. Dizzy Dishes was a cartoon about Out of work Actors, Kane had not long been dropped by Paramount, so it was a reference to her, but people loved the cartoon character so they continued onwards with her.