I'd like to hear everybody's favorite Classic Cartoon Quotes.
And just to start it off:
"It's not 'he doesn't have to shoot YOU now.'
It's 'he doesn't have to shoot ME now.'
But I say he DOES have to shoot me now. So shoot me now!" -- Daffy Duck
"Ah ah squeak, aa aa pthth, flippity flappity floop, it's yours." -- Bugs Genie
(If a thousand such jokes have already been posted, forgive me for
initiating a net.rush of old jokes, and, if it would make you feel
better, write me a flaming letter and send it to /dev/null)
---
Nels 'my-parents-know-nothing-about-Little-House' Olson
Look Bullwinkle a message in a bottle>
Fan mail from some flounder?
R and B
AAAH West and wewaxation at wast !!!!
E. Fudd
Debbie
"The crazed classic cartoon junkie"
My nephew has the profile of Elmer Fudd.
Usher, this man's annoying me!
Don't go up there, it's dark!
These seats are awfully up close.
Just a little further, sir.
Your despicable!
Bricka Bracka, fricka fracka, siss boom baah, Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny Rah rah rah
Ok, Clancy. Take the boys and surround the house.
Alright rabbit, where's Rocky ?
He's not in the stove.
Oh, so he's hiding in the stove, eh ?
If my friend Rocky were in the stove would I turn on the gas, like this ?
Ah, you might rabbit, you might.
Well, would I throw a lighted match in there, like this ?
B O O M !!!
I guess you're right rabbit. I'll go look for Rocky in the city...
The chickens are all dressed for dinner, seargant. Where will they be eating ?
Oh brudder, there goes me bread and butter !
Whatever baby wants, baby gets.
Oh, you wanted cherry pie !!!
Pick up pie !
Excuse me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck ?
(Flip Humphrey Bogart a nickel)
Hit the road !
Twenty five cents to go tru dis thing ? (The Panama Canal)
Ah, we'll walk first !
Mostly all Bugs, but some Daffy. I could go on all day, but I do have to work.
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
and from the same F. (trivia-whats the F stand for) Leghorn
I say thats a joke son, a joke, laugh. The kids got no sense of humor.
And does anyone remember Gerald McBoing-Boing ?? you need a sound chip to
quote him.
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"OK..OK... we'll stop at the nice clean gas station
and get some nice clean gas..."
F. Flintstone
>(If a thousand such jokes have already been posted, forgive me for
> initiating a net.rush of old jokes, and, if it would make you feel
> better, write me a flaming letter and send it to /dev/null)
Ditto for me too... but I've been reading net.jokes for a while now
and I haven't seen them yet.
-Rico
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I forgot my all time favorite:
OOH Mergatroid(sp?) --
What a maroon!
What a gull-a-bull!
-B. Bunny
Debbie
Quote for the day:
"Concentrate on your upper lip. After
30 it should be your prime concern."
-Victoria Principal
Good Morning, America (Oct 3, 1984)
Quote for tomorrow:
"Don't feel bad. My mother says
you have the best posture of all my friends."
-Peter Tork
The Monkees
"Well, I talk softly and carry a bigger stick. And I use it too! [BONK]" Y. Sam
"Which way did he go? Which way did he go? Where's that cute bunny rabbit I
saw on T. V." Unknown dog character.
"Exit. Stage Left." Snagglepuss.
Paul van de Graaf sdcsvax!sdcc7!ln63fkn U. C. San Diego
Sorry,
"I'm rich, rich I say, I'm rich, I'm socially secure, I'm rich..."
-- Daffy Duck
"He don't know me very well, do he?" --Bugs Bunny
"I knew I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque!" --Bugs Bunny
"Hoboken!!!!!! OOHH, I'M DYIN"!!!!!" --Bugs Bunny
Jim `Do I need a nickname too?' Raisanen
Elmer Fudd is the giant at the top of Jack's (Daffy Duck) Beanstalk.
Elmer captures Bugs and Daffy and declares,
"I'll gwind your bones into wittle pieces of dust!"
He looks around his kitchen and finds a pepper mill. He declares in
a mild and self-congratulatory manner:
"This ought to gwind their bones vewy nicewy."
I loved it anyway.
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From Daffy Duck (aka Robin Hood):
Ho, Ha ha.
Guard
Turn
Parry
Dodge
Spin
Ha
Thrust.
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When I die,
I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.
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Actually it is -- What a gull-a-ballon!
What an ignoranimus!
What a tah-rah-rah-rah-goon-di-ay!!
>> I'd like to hear everybody's favorite Classic Cartoon Quotes.
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Anyone old enough to remember this obscure quote?
"Help, Mr. Wizard, HEL-L-L-L-LP!"
"Be what you izz, and not what you izz not,
and you will be a much happier lot."
Favourite Elmer Fudd quote:
"I'll twap that wascawwy wabbit with a cawwot."
"...so to find out, Sherman and I entered into the way-back machine..."
(Would this discussion go better in net.tv perhaps?)
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Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
(The views expressed herein are the exclusive property of Dave Kirby.
Any person, living or dead, found with the same or similar opinions
will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law.)
Or when Daffy has brought the Tasmanian Devil back to the zoo and gotten his
reward, the wind blows one of his bills into the Devil's cage and Daffy goes
in after it.
"I may be a coward, but I'm a GREEEEEEEEEDY little coward!"
Tommy Phillips
cisden!phillips
^^^^^^
no longer trantor, but it's the same machine
Don't push the wed button....NEVER push the wed one! (or something like
that) Daffy D.
Hey, hey, I'm smarter than the aaaaverage bear! Yogi B.
>
> "Well, I talk softly and carry a bigger stick. And I use it too! [BONK]" Y. Sam
>
> "Which way did he go? Which way did he go? Where's that cute bunny rabbit I
> saw on T. V." Unknown dog character.
>
> "Exit. Stage Left." Snagglepuss.
>
> Paul van de Graaf sdcsvax!sdcc7!ln63fkn U. C. San Diego
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
"Ah say, Ah say, you're about as sharp as a Bowlin' Ball!" -Foghorn Leghorn
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David W. Vezie
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jeff FogFan
remember when he was babysitting the kid taht was really intellegent?? did
the kid have a name?? and what was his mother's name??
fav quote: "and the lights went out...all oooover the world"
You forgot the linr that follows later, after Porky does push the red, er wed,
button, and his house is escalated in preparation for a tidal wave:
"And for a nominal fee, I'll install this blue button."
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-the venn buddhist
How about:
Oh, drat these computers.
They're so naughty and so complex.
I could pinch them.
- The Martian
from "Duck Dodgers and the
Return of the 24-1/2 Century"
- Abomidable (sp?) Snowman
Micci Dennee
!nvuxg!micci
Bellcore - Red Bank, NJ
I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a GREEDY craven little
coward.
...or words to that effect.
By the way, does anyone want to talk about the classic cartoons themselves?
I have this faint recollection about a scary yet funny Daffy Duck
cartoon that I must have seen 25 years ago -- it involved DD as
"Duck Tracy" and was full of satirical commentary on the Dick Tracy-style
of villians and violence. Anyone else remember this?
Rob Mitchell
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Don't forget "Kill the Wabbit", sung by E. Fudd to "Ride of the Valkeries."
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General Computer Company
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^^^^
note new path-------------||
The Martian: (Trying to blow up Earth) "What happened to the kaboom?
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
The Martian again: (In "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2 Century")
"Oh drat these computers. They're so naughty and
complex. I could pinch them."
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Matt University craw...@anl-mcs.arpa
Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt
"I'll do the thinnin' around here, and don't you for-git it!"
How bout this one:
I hope the homework helper got all the answers right, I cant keep
blaming it on malfunctions.
-Elroy Jetson
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Ah say, that's FOGHORN, dag-blamit !!
Ahhm-agonna BLAST yah!!
Ah say, that's FOGHORN !!
Ahhm-agonna BLAST yah!! - Y. Sam
From the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Rabbit of Seville," Bugs sings:
"How dooooooooo,
Welcome to my shop,
Let me cut your mop,
Let me shave your crop!
Daintily, Daintily...
Hey Yoooooooou,
Don't look so perplexed!
Why should you be vexed?
Can't you see you're next!
Yes, you're next!
You're so next."
Can anyone out there in netland finish this song?
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Stuart Gove
Boeing Computer Services
"Sorry, it's the 80's, I've been edgy." -- Bull, from _Night Court_
Firstly: The gangster cartoon to which Rob refers
is called "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" and is one of the
earlier color ones (Scenario: Daffy is reading his Dick
Tracy comics, hits himself in the head, and has a delirious
fantasy about being Duck Twacy the private investigator). If
you watch cartoons of this period
there are frequently obscure references to WWII period stuff
that you might not catch without reading or talking to
someone in the know. One such reference in this cartoon is
when Daffy falls through a trapdoor into the basement of the
gangsters' hideout, and then says, "Was that trip really
necessary?" What he was referring to was a common slogan
from the gasoline rationing period of WWII. Of course there
is a great scene where Daffy is confronted by various
bizarre Dick Tracy-style villains (Juke Box-Jaw,
Pickle-Puss, Double-header, Neon-noodle, and Jack
O'Lantern, to name a few) - the artwork is fantastic. This
cartoon is from the period before everything got cheap and
the colors and backgrounds went all to hell (the older
cartoons had a more 3-dimensional quality because of the
richness of color and shading). Best moment - when Daffy
wrestles with Neon noodle and winds up twisting him into a
"Eat at Joe's" sign.
Secondly: Here are a few of my personal favorites.
"Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist."
-Evil Scientist, in some Bugs Bunny cartoon
"Survival of the fittest. And besides - it's fun!!"
-Daffy Duck, in "Rabbit Fire", leaving tell-tale
"wabbit twacks" outside Bugs' hole.
"Consequences, shmoncequences - as long as I'm rich."
-Daffy Duck, in "Ali Baba Bunny" - already
extensively quoted (Daffy says this when the Real genie of
the lamp is about to zap him - the "consequences" of
desecrating the lamp).
"I only wish my brother George were here."
-Bugs Bunny, in a Liberace imitation/reference/joke,
complete with piano and candelabra (this cartoon had
something to do with a Jekyll & Hyde theme). Who ever said
these cartoons were for kids.
"H-h-happy B-birthday, you thing from another world, you."
-Porky Pig, handing gift-wrapped dynamite to Marvin
Martian in "Duck Dodgers in the 24&1/2th Century".
"Hey I better cut this out - I think I might get to like
it!"
-Dog in a very obscure Elmer Fudd cartoon, "An Itch
in Time", after dragging his heinie around the floor for
several seconds (using front paws). Only masturbation joke
ever in a cartoon - usually edited when shown on TV.
-Steve Shiue
Best scene from the cartoon referred to above (where
Foghorn babysits a precocious, egghead chick) is when
Foghorn is playing "hide-and-go-seek" with the kid. Foghorn
hides in some kind of bin while the kid counts, and says,
"Hee-hee... That boy's gonna need a slide rule to find me!"
So of course when the kid is done counting, he produces a
slide rule, and proceeds to make some calculations to figure
out where Foghorn is. He makes a map, and walks out to the
middle of a field and starts to dig (we lose sight of
Foghorn at this point). Immediately, he digs up Foghorn,
who looks rather dazed by the whole thing ("How, ah say
how'd you find me, boy?", etc.) As they walk off, they pass
the feed bin where Foghorn should be hiding, and Foghorn
pauses, and then says "No, I better not check. I may just
be in there."
Pretty surreal.
Don't know the name of the kid or his mother. I do
however know that the name of the small brown chicken hawk
in many Foghorn Leghorn cartoons is Henery. Frequently,
characters in WB cartoons never acquire names until they
have been established in several cartoons - they usually get
their start by appearing in other characters' cartoons and
don't have names. Some may never get names.
-Steve Shiue
"Great stunt Daffy! They loved you!" (Bugs Bunny)
"I know, I know. But I can only do it once." (Daffy Duck)
ACTUALLY, the "correctee" is closer to the mark here. I'm
not sure which cartoon (if any) the "correcter" is referring
to, but the original poster quotes "Bully for Bugs", a
bullfighting story, which I just saw on videotape. In one
scene, Bugs says (regarding the bull), "What a gulli-bull!
What a nin-cow-poop!" Then, in a subsequent scene, "What an
embezzle (as in imbecile)! What an ultramaroon!" What
"ultramaroon" plays on is beyond me. These are more
examples of the malapropisms the animators liked to put in
Bugs' mouth in some of the later cartoons.
-Steve Shiue
"There's only one explanation for white tile in a dressing
room. And THAT is IT."
-Daffy Duck, discovering the Men's room sign on his
dressing room door.
Yes, it does seem to be quite old. It of course had many of DICK Tracy's
villains (or spoofs thereof; I'm not a Dick Tracy expert): Flattop, Pickle-Puss,
Snake-eyes, Neon-Noodle, etc. I think these villains were drawn to incorporate
what their names suggested, though I can't remember specifics.
*I'd* like to know if anyone remembers the cartoon where Elmer Fudd (or was it
Porky Pig?) was hunting the last dodo. It had strange characters and scenes
that made you think the illustrators had dropped acid before drawing it! At
one point the Warner Brothers logo (the sort-of heart-shaped shield with "WB"
inside it) moved in straight at the viewer from the horizon, then disappeared
somehow.
--
Back on the freeway, which is already in progress,
Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)
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The line was always spoken by Tudor Turtle at the end of his cartoon
when he got into a hopeless situation and Mr. Wizard (_not_ Don Herbert)
would bring him back from his reverie. _Tudor Turtle_ was a feature of the
_King Leonardo Show_ , later known as the _King and Odie Show_.
Does this make me old!?! I think *not*!! :^)
mrc
Yes with villians like -
Flattop who launched little planes off the top
of his head
Rubberhead - Whose head was a pencil eraser, and
who merely erased our hero DT off the screen.
I remember (I think) a cat like criminal and a few others.
Anyone else??
(remember these??)
Pickle Puss Double Header
Batman Neon Noodle
Pumpkinhead Pussycat-puss
Wolfman
(any other?)
'Well you are all Under Arrest!' - Duck Twacy
(thanks JC)
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> Don't know the name of the kid or his mother.
The mother's name is Prissy. I believe the kid is Junior
(as are most kids' names in cartoons).
Now, the Wassamata U. fight song! (from "Rocky and His Friends")
Wassamata, hats off to you!
With our colors, ochre and alice blue.
Cheers,
Topher Eliot Cyb Systems, Austin, TX (512) 458-6609
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This is all very easy for you. But...
What character from what show is Foghorn Leghorn based on?
-Il Triviatore
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Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-4247
Since the cartoon shows I watch also show Three Stooges shorts, I will
start off a list of classic TS quotes:
Moe: "See the pretty deer. Does the deer have any dough?"
Curly: "Yeah, two bucks. Nyut nyut nyut."
-- David.
Be vewy vewy quiet. We're hunting Elmers
My favorite classic-type cartoon quote--actually my favorite cartoon
itself. From "Bugs and Thugs":
Rocky (In his best Eddie G.): All right rabbit, what do you know?
Bugs: Well, two and two is four, Carson City is the capital of
Nevada...
Rocky: Shaddup! (To Mugsy) This rabbit knows too much...
Which reminds me...
Rocky: Shaddup!
Bugs: Shaddup? Sure I'll shaddup. Do I look like the type to keep
blabbing when someone tells me to shadup? When someone tells
me to shaddup, I shaddup....
Rocky: Shaddup shadding up!
Yeah. That's better than "THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...you know who."
--Ross
"Hey, when I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you."
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You should check out some of the old Betty Boop cartoons. Many of the early
ones have a very surreal character. I can't remember the artists, but a lot
of the images have the character of opium dreams.
--
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"Oh well, back to the old electronic brain..."
-- Martin the Martian (yes, that is his name)
And my all-time favorite:
"Ah like that boy, but he's about as sharp as a sack full
of wet mice."
-- Foghorn Leghorn (of course!)
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"Like the man says...don't take life too seriously, you'll never
get out of it alive"
anyone remember where this is from??
jeff and his motto
(Now whether or not _he_ was dropping acid is another story...)
blues, II
Situation: Elmer has dug up Bugs and carried him to his top floor
apt. Bugs wakes up, walks inside to the HUGE Roman bathtub, and
starts swimming. At this point he sings a song that starts out with:
"Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like Rome"
...
Can anyone finish it please? -dvb
Patrick Meehan
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brad clymer
[replace this line with generic disclaimer]
In article <4...@unc.unc.UUCP>, be...@unc.UUCP (David Beard) writes:
> I need the name of the cartoon and the rest of a Bug's song.
>
> Situation: Elmer has dug up Bugs and carried him to his top floor
> apt.
Actually Elmer had dug up a rare flower, Bug's hole just happened
to be next to the flower.
> Bugs wakes up, walks inside to the HUGE Roman bathtub, and
> starts swimming. At this point he sings a song that starts out with:
>
> "Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like Rome"
Oh Nero was the Emporer and the palace was his home.
But he liked to play with matches and soon a fire yerned.
(Bugs comes out of bath, taps on piano to get the right
note and goes "yerrrned")
So he burned Rome to ashes and fiddled while it burned.
^
+ not sure of this word
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/* A charter member of the Scooter bunch */
"Goodnight M.A."
1. "He don't know me very well, do he!"
2. "Time to employ a little stragedy!"
Stuart Gove
Boeing Computer Services
>jeff and his motto
I remember it as;
"Don't take life so serious son, it ain't nohow permanent"
- Pogo
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Of course I could be wrong.
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And that's Yosemite Sam, not YosemitY!
Andrew Beaton, Noted International Lunatic c/o David Brake c/o Reid Ellis.
T.S. Eliot.
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It was:
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Be just what you is,
Not what you is not.
Folks what do this,
Have the happiest lot.
Channel 29 in Buffalo still plays this Saturday Mornings!
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Bugs: Er, pardon me doc, but could you rent me a U-Drive flying saucer?
I'v gotta get back to the Earth.
Martian: The Earth? Oh, the Earth will be gone in just a few seconds.
Bugs: Oh well, uh, don't bother then... no point in wasting money on a
flying saucer when the Earth's not going to be... *toing!*
Er, pardon me again doc, but, uh, just what did you *mean* by
that crack about the Earth being *gone*?
Martian: Oh, uh, I'm going to blow it up. It obstructs my view of Venus.
(lights fuse)
Bugs: It does?! That's a shame. (snuffs fuse, unscrew... unscrew... )
Martian: Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering
kaboom! The Aludium-Pu36-Explosive-Space-Modulator! That creature
has stolen the Space-Modulator! Delays, delays...
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If you watch closely, you may notice that the scene was constructed so
that this 2 second piece could be clipped out without interrupting the
continuity of the cartoon. The animators stuck this in as a joke and were
surprised that it got past the censors.
Scott McEwan
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
<boom>
blues, II
GET OUT OF MY SALAD!!!!!!
Spike, to Tom in "Tom and Jerry"
Russell J. Price
University of Illinois
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"Awwww, the poor puddy tat, he fall down, go BOOM!"
--Ken R. Dye ihnp4!umn-cs!ncs-med!sx1100!dye
Scott Anderson
ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra
Wile E. Coyote, as he plummets towards the ground (one more time)...
Andy Sheppard
Convex Computer Corporation
"Oim gonna getchoo, waabit!" -- Elmer Fudd
"You gotta keep your eye on the ball son.
Hey! That's a joke -- eye .. ball ... get it?"
Aside:
"The boy's built too close to the ground, the fast ones go right over
his head".