Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!drforsey From: drforsey@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Forsey) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Tom Slick Message-ID: <1453@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 11:17:03 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.1453 Posted: Tue Mar 12 11:17:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 00:08:40 EST References: <7029@rochester.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 > From: Mike Ciaraldi > > I always thought it was... > > "In his Thunderbolt Greaseslapper, now > He's on your trail." > > i.e. the missing word is "now". > Maybe this is just gestalt filling in the word. > Could be, could be, but it doesn't set my alarm off. If *only* we could be *sure*.... > While we are on the subject of missing words > (but not from animated shows), I have wondered > for years what adjective describes Lola's voice in the Kinks song. > > i.e. "I asked her her name and in a **** voice she said, 'Lola.'" > > It always sounds like "suff-rone" phonetically to me. > Any one know? > I've always been reasonably sure it was "guttural", only sort of contracted, y'know, "gutt'ral". It'd make sense for Lola to have a guttural voice if she was a guy once, right? Oh well.... The Gray Mouser