| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1100.1 | Musical about a successful "Dr. Feelgood...:" | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 07:07 | 1 |
| Less Miserable
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| 1100.2 | | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per opera mea meliores fiant | Mon May 23 1994 07:43 | 17 |
| Musical about an enchanted male chauvinist prince: Swiney Toad
Musical about the shopping center for the End of the World: Jesus
Christ Superstore
Musical about JOYOFLEX: Into the Words
Musical about Alfred Drake Musicals: Kismet Kate
Musical about an ocean-going shopping center: Sale Away
Musical about a Holocaust hero: Schindler on the Hoof
Musical about a wishful-thinking teenybopper: Someday in the Dark with
George
Musical about a beer gardener: Plant 'Em at the Hofbrau
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| 1100.3 | | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Mon May 23 1994 08:05 | 9 |
| Musicals about:-
a dyslexic feline fanatic - Cast
overdue photo processing - Someday my prints will come
Bugs Bunny - Hare
short-lived urban plan - Forty second Street
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| 1100.4 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Mon May 23 1994 08:31 | 7 |
| >
>Musical about Alfred Drake Musicals: Kismet Kate
>
Brilliant!
This looks like fun -- I'll be back!
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| 1100.5 | This sounds like a contest in _New_York_ magazine | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Mon May 23 1994 08:48 | 16 |
| A Pops Conductor's daytime job: Fiedler on the Roof
50's Teens get into the Cleaning and Pressing Business: Crease
A gymnasium for the underprivileged: Sweat Charity
Story of a Cystic Fibrosis researcher: The Mucus Man
A Trilogy:
Story of a Pig and his woman: Porky and Bess
Story of a man and his fish: Porgy and Bass
Story of a man and his Moyel: Porgy and Briss
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| 1100.6 | | BARSTR::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584 | Mon May 23 1994 09:11 | 4 |
| A musical about a dyslexic Wild West entertainer who shoots a rifle from the
back of a large African antelope:
Annie, Get Your Gnu
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| 1100.7 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 09:22 | 5 |
| Story of an unhappy marriage -- the heroine marries a lowlife and
things deteriorate from there...
Brideagoon
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| 1100.8 | | BARSTR::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584 | Mon May 23 1994 09:36 | 10 |
| Opera buff T. Swift said, lyrically, I am
The Fan, Tom, of the Opera
Musical tribute to a spelling bee winner
GoodSpell
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| 1100.9 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Mon May 23 1994 09:38 | 3 |
| Stephen Sondheim double bill on the recent history of DEC:
Company/Follies
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| 1100.10 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Mon May 23 1994 09:41 | 1 |
| Paean to variety meats in Victorian England: O Liver!
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| 1100.11 | | PENUTS::DDESMAISONS | toyty poyple boyds | Mon May 23 1994 11:17 | 5 |
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>>Annie, Get Your Gnu
i love this. excellent.
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| 1100.12 | TFSO Hits the Band | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 18:08 | 6 |
| 67 Trombones
(from the excellent musical about a horse which selflessly donated
every one of his hairs for use in violin bows:)
The Music Mane
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| 1100.13 | Zany musical about life with an aberrant sorta guy... | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 18:09 | 1 |
| The Kink and I
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| 1100.14 | And carrying forth from Andrew's trilogy in .5: | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 18:13 | 16 |
| =====
A Trilogy:
Story of a Pig and his woman: Porky and Bess
Story of a man and his fish: Porgy and Bass
Story of a man and his Moyel: Porgy and Briss
=====
Story of a Moyel's conflicts about his desire to eat ham: Porky and Briss
Story of his resolution of the conflict by bringing his religious
ritual to the Arab world:
Camelop
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| 1100.15 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Mon May 23 1994 19:40 | 7 |
|
A weather report - West Side Stormy
A drama - West Side Stalker
responsible journalism - Less Snide Stories
Chele
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| 1100.16 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Mon May 23 1994 19:58 | 24 |
| G'day,
Story of a flambe meal...
Who Flamed Roger Rabbit
Tv show about an insect plague in Florida...
Miami Lice
Story about gasolene production
Highway Petrol
Story of a frightened man who wished not to marry..
The bride runner
story of a mobile army sweet kiosk
M.A.S.K.
djw
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| 1100.17 | She went into screaming hysterics at every aria, at: | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 20:00 | 1 |
| The Fantod of the Opera
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| 1100.18 | The birth of the department store display industry: | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Mon May 23 1994 20:03 | 1 |
| The Merry Window
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| 1100.19 | The 70's hit musical about life in an urban lift | LINGO::PETERS | | Tue May 24 1994 02:36 | 1 |
| The Sound of Muzak
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| 1100.20 | Story of children who experimented with a high-cholesterol diet | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Integrated Service: 2B+O | Tue May 24 1994 06:18 | 1 |
| Sons Ate Bowl of Lard
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| 1100.21 | | HYLNDR::TRUMPLER | Help prevent truth decay. | Tue May 24 1994 07:05 | 26 |
| Musical about a merry band of thieves who steal documents from lawyers'
safes: The Will Robbers Follies
Musical about what a comedian wears under his clothes: The Will
Rogers Falsies
Musical about a Boston Marathon runner: The Bill Rogers Follies
Musical about a former baseball pitcher, turned ESPN announcer, and
his family: Kaats
Musical about a bunch of rude people: Cads
Musical about the largest of the Mama's & Papa's: Cass
Musical about aficionados of the fine arts: The Fandom of the Opera
Musical about 50's teenagers in southern Europe: Greece
Musical about inheritance: Heir
Another musical about inheritance: Pass On
Musical about Dad disowning his kids: Pa Shun
Musical about the desert-edge equivalent of a used-car dealer:
Camel Lot
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| 1100.22 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Tue May 24 1994 10:02 | 15 |
| Musical about litter in a Southeast Asian City: Mess Saigon
Freddy Kruger comes to Broadway: Maim
Marcel Marceau comes to Broadway: Mime
Musical about one woman's adventures with implants: Phoney Girl
P.G. Wodehouse musical about the demise of Mister Wooster: Bye Bye Bertie
Another Cystic Fibrosis musical: The Sound of Mucus
WWII musical about a very particular alcoholic: Souse Specific
Musical about the computer-literate amphibian: Weeny Toad
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| 1100.23 | more ( & a wobbly deer.. bandy) | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Tue May 24 1994 16:48 | 40 |
| G'day,
A story of a noisy dog in Spain
The Barker of Seville
the story of a meal in a paris church
The lunchpack of Notre Dame
story of life after Schwarzenegger became a cult role model
The last Boy Squirt
story of a little girl who was the light and soul of the town, but
talked too much
Pollywaffle
story of a boxer who fought too much, and retired, putting on weight
Rolly
story of fat ladies accused of bulima but later released..
Buts
djw
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| 1100.24 | A non-combatant Merseysider | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Wed May 25 1994 03:52 | 2 |
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Scouse pacific
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| 1100.25 | The Birth of the Mouse | DRDAN::KALIKOW | World-Wide Web: Postmodem Culture | Wed May 25 1994 05:11 | 1 |
| Annie Get Your Gui
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| 1100.26 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Wed May 25 1994 08:24 | 5 |
| Hey, let's keep this string confined to musicals -- if you
want to start mangling other artistic expressions, start
another string!
andrew
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| 1100.27 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Wed May 25 1994 08:40 | 3 |
| Musical about fill-in-the-blanks legal documents: Canned Deed.
Musical about Lassie on the Titanic: The Unsinkable Collie Drowns.
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| 1100.28 | Another trilogy | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Wed May 25 1994 08:43 | 5 |
| A boy in an expensive part of London - Mayfair Laddy
A woman at a spring festival - May Fair Lady
The woman who paid for my bus ticket - My Fare Lady
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| 1100.29 | what goes around comes around | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Wed May 25 1994 09:21 | 5 |
| re .28:
> The woman who paid for my bus ticket - My Fare Lady
see .0.
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| 1100.30 | Not me, really.... | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Wed May 25 1994 10:04 | 14 |
| >re .28:
>
>> The woman who paid for my bus ticket - My Fare Lady
>
> see .0.
Either:
Originality is pagiarism that hasn't been found out, and I thought it
worth a try
Or:
Ain't deja vu wonderful?
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| 1100.31 | pant pant | MROA::BERICSON | MRO1-1/KL31 DTN 297-3200 | Wed May 25 1994 10:58 | 1 |
| The story of conversion from dresses to pants in China.. Pant Asia
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| 1100.32 | | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per opera mea meliores fiant | Wed May 25 1994 10:58 | 12 |
| Musical about a group of hooligans who limp: Lame Is Rabble
Musical about a mad Left Coast dog that can't keep its feet: LA Cujo
Falls
Musical about happy but messy children: Merry Paw Prints
Musical about a racing engine mechanic: Cam a Lot
Musical about an abattoir ventilator: The Fan Down in the Offal
Musical about a vicious Cockney insect: Ant 'E Maim
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| 1100.33 | | OKFINE::KENAH | Every old sock meets an old shoe... | Wed May 25 1994 12:35 | 11 |
| Musical about men and boring people: Guys and Dulls
Musical about homosexuals and their toys: Gays and Dolls
Musical about Gentiles and their women: Goys and Dolls
Musical about The French Connection: Guys and Doyles (a stretch, admittedly)
Musical about Aniline in Brooklyn: Dyes and Goils
Musical about costumes for marionettes: Guise in Dolls
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| 1100.34 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Wed May 25 1994 16:47 | 47 |
| G'day,
Musical about an aborigine who goes walkabout, paints himself and
decides to return to his tribe...
OchreHomer
Musical about a ship that goes aground on a moonless night
Less Tide Story
Musical about a gunslinger who had his rifle stolen
Andy got your gun
Musical about a computer buff who was challenged to a gunfight
$set noon
musical about an official that took money for cows
Seven bribes for seven udders
musical about cornish detectives
The Pirots of Penzance
Musical about cornish airmen
The pilots of Penzance
Musical about airmen who dated Madonna's ex's mother's sisters
The Pilots of Penn's Aunts
(I'll give up after that one!)
derek
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| 1100.35 | | GAVEL::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584 | Thu May 26 1994 06:29 | 7 |
| > Musical about a ship that goes aground on a moonless night
> Less Tide Story
Or about a washer with too much detergent (Tide is a brand of detergent).
Clay
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| 1100.36 | | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Thu May 26 1994 07:09 | 1 |
| About iron mining in Cornwall - The Pyrites of Penzance
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| 1100.37 | | HLDE01::SOEMBA::RIK | Mostly Harmless | Thu May 26 1994 07:46 | 3 |
| About employment in southwestern England: The payrates of Penzance
Motorcycle product development: Best Sidecar Story
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| 1100.38 | Okay, you asked for it... | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per opera mea meliores fiant | Thu May 26 1994 07:50 | 22 |
| About a typical Archie Leach film: The Grant Dupe
About a southern Irish wedding: Mick, Ah Do
About a cinema usher at work: Aisle, Auntie
About Belgian entomologists: The Poirots of Penned Ants
About Beetle Bailey's corporal and his drinking vessel: Yo, Man of the
Gourd
About Las Vegas: Pay Chance
About moving Ms Zadora's Ford: You Tow Pia's LTD
About some of the contributions here (no names named): Bloody Poor
About a pained waitron: The Sore Server
*** And, for Sir Arthur alone...
About what a sculling crew did to one of their own: Cox in Box
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| 1100.39 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Thu May 26 1994 11:00 | 6 |
| A fund-raiser for an independent presidential candidate: H. Ross, Dinner for.
Set in a fish-processing plant: Codsmell.
A dyslexic overcomes his disability and becomes national spelling bee champion:
Dogspell.
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| 1100.40 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Thu May 26 1994 22:05 | 49 |
| G'day,
... about a large grey person who turns purple when wet
The indelible Hulk
... about a journalist from a prominent magazine
Sweet Mister Ree of Life (he really existed too)
... about a little girl raised in the country in a house of paper kept
together with low quality copper hoops
Anne of Green Staples
... about a German man who often ate beans and was head of an
underground group of stand-over merchants
The GottFarter
... about a German champion rally driver who etc
The GutFahter
... about a young uni student who discovers a prediliction for cutting
pies into 100ths and supping thereon
The grad you ate
... about Sylvester Stalone's golf course, where he insists that no
shoes are to be worn, and that the putting surfaces will be made of
sand paper (oh how contrived can I get?)
sly's green to mar toes.
djw
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| 1100.41 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Thu May 26 1994 23:15 | 17 |
| Hello Folly!
The musical welcoming little pieces of material - Hello Doily
The musical welcoming politically incorrect dolls - Hello Golly
The musical welcoming a personal rain dispersal device - Hello Brolly
Stan Laurel welcoming Mr Hardy - Hello Olly
The musical welcoming spiky green leaves - Hello Holly
Finally finding him in the "Where's W." books - Hello Wally
Chele
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| 1100.42 | Apropos .41 | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Fri May 27 1994 06:20 | 5 |
| Greeting an incompetent -- Hello Wally
The other incompetent and colleague -- Fellow Wally
In the ghetto -- Hello Solly
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| 1100.43 | | GIDDAY::BURT | Scythe my dandelions down, sport | Sun May 29 1994 19:32 | 9 |
|
Barbra and the Mushrooms from Mars - Fungi Girl
Doctor, the first officer has dined - Spock's Supped, Doc.
Chele
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| 1100.44 | I thought you said musicals... | KERNEL::MORRIS | Which universe did you dial? | Wed Jun 01 1994 10:46 | 9 |
| <RATHOLE ALERT>
I have a feeling that the D'Oyly Carte (sp?) Opera Company might be a
bit miffed that so many JoyOfLexers believe Gilbert and Sullivan's
operettas are mere musicals.
<END RATHOLE>
Jon
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| 1100.45 | | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per opera mea meliores fiant | Wed Jun 01 1994 14:24 | 8 |
| .44
<REOPEN RATHOLE>
I could ask the D'Oyly Carte's former Music Director Royston Nash about
that if you're seriously concerned. We're friends, he and I.
<RECLOSE RATHOLE>
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| 1100.46 | | PENUTS::DDESMAISONS | toyty poyple boyds | Wed Jun 01 1994 15:09 | 3 |
|
musical about the remains of a baklava dessert tray - D'Oyly Carte
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| 1100.47 | rubbin it in.. | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Wed Jun 01 1994 16:56 | 21 |
| ... about a cooked goose
Swan bake
.... about cat with fear of small furry creatures
De Fleedermouse
.... about a soldier who liked gardening
Der Rose and Cavalier
djw
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| 1100.48 | | ROCK::HUBER | File and Forget | Wed Jun 08 1994 14:03 | 14 |
|
The story of a '60s - '70s English Rock Band:
The Music Mann
The story of a flower store doing no business until they prersuade
ladies of the evening to stand in the windows:
Little Shop of Whores
The story of a flower store doing no business until they start
serving snacks to the customers:
Little Shop of Hors D'Oeuvres
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| 1100.49 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Thu Jun 09 1994 16:49 | 40 |
| ... about an adverse reaction to neat alcohol..
A little shot of horrors
....about the last person at a well known company near you...
Home alone
(or maybe... Home ALL-IN-1)
... about a cat with sonar
the ping panther
.... about an aussie cake maker
Crocodile Madeira
... about a long marriage..
The seven year B....
... about a chilli sandwich maker
Some like it hot
djw
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| 1100.50 | And another | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Road-kill on the Information Superhighway | Tue Jun 14 1994 06:20 | 7 |
| Commedia del'Arte forerunner of the G&S thingy
[I don't believe people think they're musicals, just stretching a point]
about clowns in Cornwall:
Pierrots of Penzance
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| 1100.51 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Wed Jul 20 1994 12:11 | 5 |
| Musical about a professional golfer trying to make a comeback but having
trouble with his putts: Bye Bye Birdie.
Musical about a would-be muckraking reporter whose editor assigns him
to cover an Israeli folk-dance festival: The Little Shock of Horas.
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| 1100.52 | more musicals + | SLBLUZ::WINKLEMAN | take a byte out of crim! | Fri Sep 16 1994 14:40 | 39 |
|
Story of a blind/deaf fish processing plant employee and her
dedicated teacher:
The Mackerel Worker
Musical about an NBC News correspondant who gets lost on assignment
in the highlands of Scotland:
Britt A. Hume
Musical about the life and adventures of a can of RAID:
Pesticide Story
Musical about a fashion craze that involved the artificial coloration
of pigeons:
Tie-Dyed Birdie
Musical about an insane philosopher in Iowa:
The Manic Muse
(includes the songs "76 Trombones Led the Big Parody", and
"My Night Light")
Musical about an orthodontist with a unique set of patient qualifications:
Mouth Specific
(includes the songs, "Some Enchanted Eating", and
"I'm gonna wash that plaque right out of...uh...here")
Musical about a grown women who reverts to early childhood:
High Chair Lady
(includes the songs, "With a Little Bit of Lunch",
"I Could Have Cried All Night", and
"I Can Do-Do Very Well Without You")
Musical about a computer operator in the 1970's who had fun flipping the many
front panel switches when bringing up a computer:
Twiddler on the Boot
(includes the songs, "If I Were a Bit, Man", and
"Switchmaker, Switchmaker")
-Austin W
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| 1100.53 | Not fractured enough. | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sat Sep 17 1994 00:19 | 4 |
| Not sure it counts, but:
101 Dalmatians, the story of a valiant troop of patriots caught behind
Serb lines. (Check where Dalmatia is in your atlas).
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| 1100.54 | G&S Follies | wook.mso.dec.com::LEE | | Mon Oct 09 1995 15:42 | 12 |
| Re: Mick, Ah do
The story of the Dear Jean letter received by an Irish soldier after WWII: Mick,
Adieu.
The story of Bambi's life if his mother had survived: Nick a Doe.
The story of a woman's life during her realtionship with an unknown actor during
his rise to courtroom fame: My Cato
The story of a Cockney man's frustrating relationship with a stupid auto
mechanic: Me Car, Dope!
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