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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Re: Who is Petrillo?
Message-ID: <807@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 20:00:29 EST
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.807
Posted: Thu Dec  5 20:00:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Dec-85 03:13:10 EST
References: <415@tekig4.UUCP> <9117@ritcv.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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> In article <415@tekig4.UUCP> tomfi@tekig4.UUCP (Tom Fitzpatrick) writes:
> >   In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare" ... Bugs' last line is:
> >"I sure hope Petrillo doesn't here about this." My question is: who is
> >Petrillo ...  maybe he was someone well-known back in the 40's?
> 
> The responses all say that James Petrillo was the leader of the musicians'
> union back then.
> 
> Dumb question:  Who was watching Bugs back then that would know that?
> 
> I've always thought Bugs was cool, but lately I've noticed that he really
> has his stuff together. He is definitely not speaking solely to the six-year=
> olds all the time, but in this case, to whom is he speaking?
> 
> I know I'm carrying this too far, and the line was only intended to get a
> laugh out of those who understood it..............
> 
I think that the key to this question is in something that a major animator
(either Chuck Jones or Tex Avery) said, to the effect that they made the jokes
not so much for kiddies or adults as FOR THEMSELVES.

			-Steve Shiue

"You're a big boy now... take your fingers outta your mouth!"
-Bugs Bunny, "Hurdy-Gurdy Hare"