Ah, the ol' rabbit out of the hat trick!
Ah, the ol' gun out of the rabbit, out of the hat trick!
Ah, the ol' lighter, out of the gun, out of the rabbit out, of the hat trick!
On a completely different front, I was watching old vidtapes of "Animaniacs" yesterday, and noticed the Politically Correct Police at work. Elmer Fudd walks through a historical bit set on the boat at the Boston Tea Party. "Be very, very quiet. I am hunting Redcoats," says the character. It
looks like he is carrying a blunderbus, one of the big ended guns from before the Colonial era. A freezeframe shows he is carrying a
bell. Hunting with a bell? Nope. Just another sad trick, trying to remove those nasty guns from "kids entertainment." (Along with airbrushing cigarettes, racial stereotypes, and liquour out of old Bugs Bunny cartoons, no doubt.)
Sorry for the distraction...just something that miffed me. And now back to your regular thread, already in progress...