“She’s a tartar, ain’t she?! I ain’t sleepin’ with ‘er!”
~ Angela Lansbury (as housemaid) in Gaslight (1944)
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“Up in a balloon, boys! Up in a balloon…”
~ Angela Lansbury (singing), from Gaslight (1944)
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“Well, I didn’t permit a lonely potato to frighten me…”
“No, you were brave enough ~ among the potatoes.”
~from Hearts and Masks, 1905. Author, Harold MacGrath.
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“It’s the gol-darndest thing I ever saw.”
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“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”
I should say so…!
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Naughty little scamps, don’t ya know. Kinda cute, though…
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Carbolic acid, you see… and she gave it to him quite by mistake. Very sad, really. Poor little tyke. I knew the child. Of course, one does wonder…
~ Old NYT article: Baby poisoned by accident
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Slow Poison
Slo-o-o-ow poison, slow poison!
That is what your love turned out to be-e-e.
Co-o-o-ld kisses, your cold kisses
once were thrillin’, now ther killin’ me.
Chorus:
Carbolic acid
and even arsen-ic,
Nuthin in the drugstore
could kill me half as quick
as your slow poison,
sl-o-o-ow poison
That is what your love turned out to be.
I am only hu-u-man,
Oh, how long can I la-a-a-st?
Why not use a shotgun
and git it over fast?!
‘Stead of slo-o-ow poison,
Slow poison…
That is what your love turned out to be.
~ from an old country song by Johnny and Jack
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Waterbeds for Cows…?
Waterbeds for cows? Are you quite sure that’s what he said? Waterbeds…?
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(Source: USA Today)
