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"Slowly I turned": A piece of America's Pop Culture
Niagara Falls Reporter ^ | Rebecca Day

Posted on 02/14/2002 8:25:44 AM PST by ArcLight

In "honor" of the deranged gunman who can't stand the sound of "New Jersey..."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abbottandcostello; budabbott; heyabbott; loucostello; niagarafalls; pocomocco; slowlyiturn
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1 posted on 02/14/2002 8:25:44 AM PST by ArcLight
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To: ArcLight
nyuck, nyuck, nyuck
2 posted on 02/14/2002 8:29:46 AM PST by p. henry
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To: ArcLight
Click here and have speakers on.
3 posted on 02/14/2002 8:31:38 AM PST by Pokey78
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To: ArcLight
Thanks for posting this. I was trying to explain this skit to my teenage daughter awhile back (as well as "Who's on First")
4 posted on 02/14/2002 8:33:10 AM PST by DWSUWF
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To: ArcLight
Ah! A wise guy!
5 posted on 02/14/2002 8:34:49 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Sointenly
6 posted on 02/14/2002 8:41:08 AM PST by AGreatPer
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To: ArcLight
ROFLMAO I love this!! I drive my kids nuts with this everytime I here the words. Thanks for the link, It's good to know there are others with culture.
7 posted on 02/14/2002 9:03:01 AM PST by vikzilla
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To: AGreatPer
I was bred in old Kentucky, but I'm just a crumb out here.
8 posted on 02/14/2002 9:05:47 AM PST by j.havenfarm
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To: AGreatPer
Look at the grouse!
9 posted on 02/14/2002 9:09:06 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: j.havenfarm
She was bred in old Kentucky
But she's only a crumb up here
She's knock-kneed and double-jointed
With a cauliflower ear
Someday we'll be married
And if vegetables get too dear
I'll take a knife and cut a slice
Of her cauliflower ear

And that ain't cabbage...
10 posted on 02/14/2002 9:10:50 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: ArcLight
Slowly I turned" BUMP!
11 posted on 02/14/2002 9:12:39 AM PST by Teacup
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To: p. henry
Moe, Larry the cheese
Moe, Larry, the cheese
12 posted on 02/14/2002 9:13:03 AM PST by Moleman
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To: Moleman
No no no, the camemboit!
13 posted on 02/14/2002 9:13:29 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: AGreatPer

I seem to remember another Abbott & Costello movie using this same "skit". I don't recall the name nor plot of the flick but there were looking for (I believe it was) Bagel Street. Each person they came across reacted negatively to hearing "Bagel Street". Brings a smile to my face just remembering it.

14 posted on 02/14/2002 9:30:57 AM PST by MrConfettiMan
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This was debated on another News Group and established that Joey Faye did not create the routine, that it was an old burlesque skit from the 1920's.

A variation of it is the classic "Susquehena Hat Company" with poor Costello losing the box of straw hats he and Abbott were delivering.

15 posted on 02/14/2002 10:08:45 AM PST by catonsville
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To: ArcLight
There's a great song about this, Don't Call Me Dude, by the band Scatterbrain. Same plot, different word. Step by step, inch by inch...
16 posted on 02/14/2002 10:10:58 AM PST by Britton J Wingfield
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To: ArcLight
I have always loved the Three Stooges...AMC runs them every weekday, sometime during the afternoon...whenever, I have the time, I sit down and watch...its like reliving a joyous part of my childhood...
17 posted on 02/14/2002 10:15:05 AM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: ArcLight, ALL
OK, OK, I'll admit my complete ignorance in front of the entire world:

I've NEVER even HEARD of this until I saw it on FR.

Does someone have a link to video of the skit? All three versions (Lucy and Ricky, 3 Stooges and Abbot and Castello) would be really great. Help?

18 posted on 02/14/2002 10:36:25 AM PST by Liberty Belle
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To: ArcLight
I think Dr. Demento has played a recording of Milton Berle doing this, except in his version it was "Buffalo" instead of "Niagara Falls". Clearly a very popular bit.
19 posted on 02/14/2002 10:41:39 AM PST by RichInOC
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To: RichInOC
Let's not forget the great black "chitlin circuit" comedian Pigmeat Markham, of "Here Come The Judge" fame. He too performed Niagara Falls; it's on one of his old LPs.
20 posted on 02/14/2002 12:40:45 PM PST by ArcLight
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