LOL! That was actually worth asking for. I like this theory. Glutton for punishment, me? Perhaps I just have different standards than others, after some of the history textbooks I've been forced to read *nothing* on this list could be described as lacking entertainment value at the very least.
K
If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor.
http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
----- Original Message -----
From: moongirlk
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:24 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Alice, institutions, Woody and the witness protection program
--- 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
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