FW: [Groop]M.E., a little consideration...I'm a Groo fan

[Sudilovsky, Ariel]

-----Original Message-----
From: Sudilovsky, Ariel 
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 4:43 PM
To: 'Groop@groo.com'
Subject: RE: [Groop]M.E., a little consideration...I'm a Groo fan


Look below

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Evanier [mailto:me@evanier.com]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 1:43 PM
To: groop@groo.com
Subject: Re: [Groop]Supes and Bugs - Mark can do one better


On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:58:46 -0400 , "Sudilovsky, Ariel"
<ASudilov@Calfee.com> wrote:

>p.p.s.  Mark, a question.  Obviously your knowledge of looney tunes is
>impressive.  There is a character whose name I would love to know.  The
>character is a black bird that walks about the jungle floor, doing a little
>hop every eighth beat.  The lion and the hunter, who hunt the bird always
>end up following him in a line, joining in in the eighth beat jump.  Real
>catchy little tune is playing the whole while.  Dut-dut-dut-do-do-do-doo,
>do-do-do-do-do-do.  Can you, or anyone else help?

ME: Yeah...that's the Minah Bird.  That's his entire name.  He was in
five or six cartoons that Chuck Jones directed.  They're not shown
often because the star of most was a little black kid named Inki who
was kind of a racial stereotype.  But they're very funny, odd
cartoons.

The song, by the way, is called "Fingal's Cave" and it's a great
classical piece by Mendelsohn.


--->Sheesh, Mark.  I'm Groo fan.  Thanks a lot for not taking that into
consideration.  I mean, off I go, to the record store, armed with the name
Mendelsohn and the title Fingal's cave.  I swear I must have looked through
10 bins before I came across a disk which listed Fingal's Cave.  Of course,
such listing was a parenthetical, associated with the Hebrides Overture.
Apparently FC and HO are the same thing.  Half the disks I looked at had the
tune, but it took me 20 minutes to find it because you didn't take into
consideration that you were talking to a Groo fan.  Sheesh.  How am I
supposed to figure these things out.  How am I supposed to know that Die
Finegelschlosse means Fingal's Cave. ; )  Seriously, thanks Mark.  The bonus
info was great.

--->You all say you want some silliness...well, howzabout this little story.
Family dinner at my parents.  They, my sister and family and me and family
gathered around the table enjoying a fine repast, when my niece starts
talking about looney tunes.  I ask them (my niece and her brother)who their
favorite Looney tunes character is.  Tweety Bird, I'm told, and then asked
about mine.  I tell them the Mynah Bird.  "Whoooo", they ask.  "The Mynah
Bird.  Your mom and grandmother love him too."  By this time everybody is
kinda looking at me askance.  I stand up, and start to do the Mynah March.
Shortly my mother and sister join in, then my wife and brother-in-law, and
finally the kids.  All around the dining room and living room we march with
gleeful enjoyment.  My dad remained at the head of the table wondering "what
the hell is going on here, and where did it all go wrong?"  Yup, silly. 

Later,
Ari
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Mark Evanier - PMB 303 - 363 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036

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