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From: awr@panda.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Infinity (really Pinto)
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Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 09:47:14 EDT
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>... I also want some answers regarding the 
>ever-present, seldom believed concept popularized by "Pinto" on pot for the
>first time in "Animal House"...
>         
>        'So, like, you mean, like a whole little universe could be 
>         contained in one little electron inside my fingernail...'

I believe that concept appeared in "First High Comics" in the National
Lampoon many years before Animal House.  In fact, quite a bit of AH was
recycled from older NL articles; for example, the scene with Pinto, Clorette,
and the cartoon angel/devil was "borrowed" from "First Lay Comics".  Many years
later, John Hughes recycled many of the ideas from his "Today's Teens Talk To
Yesterday's Teens" (another NL article) for "Back To The Future".

>By the way, speaking of bizarre, was the guy in Animal House also the guy
>who played "Amadeus" ?

Yes, Pinto and "Amadeus" are one and the same - Thomas Hulce.  At least TH
was able to break out of the "Pinto" role and do some serious acting; 
whoever-it-was that played Niedermeyer had to settle for appearing in a
Twisted Sister video...

AWR