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From: rjwouthuis@watnot.UUCP (rj)
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Subject: Re: Re: Three Stooges
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 23:53:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 23:53:32 1986
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> > I believe the "...slowly I turn, and step by step, inch by inch..." sketch
>     
>       I remember this .....slowly I turn ...... routine from
> an old Abbot and Costello movie. If anyone said "Pocomoco",
> that started the routine. I seem to remember it being the
> movie where they are on a sled or toboggan zooming down a
> slope with a bear on the back of the sled. But maybe not.
>       My kid brother used the routine for years after - he
> must have been all of 5 or 6 at the time of the movie.
> -- 
>
The Niagra falls routine is a variation on the classic burlesque
sketch entitled FLOOGLE STREET.  The comic would ask a passerby
for the location of Floogle Street as he had to make a delivery
to a company on the street.  Hearing the name of the street would
cause the passerby to go crazy.  Ie, 'Oh my god, my brother was killed
on Floogle Street', or 'My husband met and ran off with a girl on 
Floogle Street'.  Then the person would generally beat the shit out
of the comic for reminding him.  The sketch was so popular because
it could be built on indefinitely and never grow old.  Abbot and 
Costello used at least three variations of it.  The best being
Lou trying to locate the Sesquahana Hat Company and being beaton
up by anyone he asks.  

I don't think any one person can claim to have originated the 
FLOOGLE STREET aka NIAGRA FALLS aka SESQUAHANA HAT COMPANY sketch.
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