Alice, institutions, Woody and the witness protection program

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "lupinesque" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Kimberly wrote:
> 
> > > ...but my train of thought is too convoluted for him, or maybe 
> he's 
> > > just never visited Alice's restaurant.
> 
> David wrote:
> 
> > Indeed not - I can't even work out from the references here what 
it 
> > *is* - book, record, what?


Amy did a fantastic job of explaining it, I'll just add you are 
fairly likely to come across the song on the radio around 
Thanksgiving time each year, if nothing else.  I know I was 
introduced to it by my uncle one Thanksgiving when I was 10 or 11.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever encountered.  I hold Arlo 
Guthrie and Abbot and Costello side-by-side in the Comedic Heroes 
portion of my brain.

And strangely Kathryn seems to actually want to hear my Witness 
Protection Program allegory.  She's a glutton for punishment, that 
Kathryn.

It's an example of my random thought processes entertaining me when I 
should be doing other things, just a goofy thought that popped into 
my head in which the Witness Protection Program represents baptism.  
The WPP gives the person a new identity (according to Christian 
tradition one comes out of baptism a new creation and puts on a new 
life) so that the Baddie can't get to him anymore, and as long as the 
person doesn't go back and start messing around with things from his 
old life, the baddie can't find him.  Silly, but it made me giggle.  

kimberly
very seldom bored