Posted on 11/19/2004 8:50:13 PM PST by Reaganesque
I grew up in the Boston area. Lived there from 1966 through the early 1990's. During the 70's there was a parody of the film Gunga Din that was played on the radio that was one of the funniest things I have ever heard. I can't remember who made it or even if it was a local creation.
Basically it starts with a brief introduction (from the poem) and then features a bugle sounding the alarm as the sound of horses and gunshots can be heard in the background. As the sound of horses and gunshots gets louder, the bugler is hit. Slowly, the bugler starts playing again only a little less enthusiastically this time. He is shot again. Again, he musters up the strength to play (even more feeble this time) and again he is shot. This goes on and on like this until the bugler can barely play at all. The whole thing wraps up with the "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din" followed by a pathetic blurb from the mortally wounded bugler.
Does any one else remember this and if so, do you know where I can get a copy of it? I tried Google but didn't find it. Please help!
Firesign Theater. Available on CD or DVD
You may also wnt to check out a movie, Blake Edwards' "The Party" (1968), featuring Peter Sellers as a Bollywood actor in Hollywood (groovy soundtrack by Henry Mancini) and featuring the debut - I think - of Claudine Longet (sp?), famous later for shooting Olympic skier Spyder Savage.
Opening scene is similar to what you describe, but the rest of the movie gets better as Mr. Sellers' character destroys a Hollywood dinner party...
Parrot scene is hysterical.
HA! Cracks me up every time!
The Firesign Theater album, I believe, was Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Plier.
I seem to remember a group "The three----" something or other. I used to have the record. they also did one about the "Beware the Jabawock" (sp?) (I think?)
We know everything. Go ahead, ask a question about string theory.
Jimmy Launce, a radio personality at WJR in Detroit, also played this occasionally. For those who have never heard it, all I can say is "Looooooooooooooooosers!" It's a classic.
Okay. How do you get Silly String back into the can?
That falls under the heading of extestential crisis. I don't do extestential.
Okay, try this one. How long is a piece of string?
It's exactly from one end to the other, unless folded in the center, then it is exactly half as long.
If it is only half as long as it is, how can it get to the center and back?
And what is the deal with string cheese? Do you eat it with string beans? Can you use it to tie the toppings onto your pizza?
In a complex and unknown manner, what was once the center of the string transforms into an end when the string is folded in half. Scientists are working to figure out exactly how this happens and with what frequency.
Trick question -- because string cheese is neither string nor actually cheese. It's a product whose only ingredient is "marketing."
Probably somewhere around 870 mhz. I heard a string quartet on the radio around that frequency, once.
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