tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 17 22:24:20 2002
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Re: More puns in new vocab
--- Russ Perry Jr <slapdash@enteract.com> wrote:
> At 5:05 PM -0600 1/15/02, Steven Boozer wrote:
> >Ironically, the Olsen twins are today about the
> same age Alice was in Lewis
> >Carroll's books (about 13 or 14), but back in "Full
> House" they were infants.
>
> Aren't the Olson twins 16 or 17 now??
>
> One thing too... Alice was supposedly based on a
> girl that Lewis Carrol
> knew, a neighbor's daughter. Is it possible that
> neighbor was Alice Olson?
>
>
> At 9:00 PM -0500 1/16/02, Tad Stauffer wrote:
> >> > Russ Perry Jr:
> >> > : But it leaves me to wonder what we're
> supposed to make of cha'naS and
> >> > : cha'par... Has anyone figured these out?
>
> >> > {cha'par} from PARtridge?
>
> >Anyway, "Partridge" actually makes sense to me
> somewhat. Russ may be thinking of the tv series "The
> Partridge Family".
>
> Actually I didn't bring up the partridge or
> Partridge Family, so I can't
> take credit... Might also be for parakeet if not
> partridge or parrot?
>
> I'd wondered also if there were some artists out
> there that it referred
> to -- John Parr?
>
> >Although I didn't watch it much, I believe the show
> was about a family who also played as a rock band
> (note that a {cha'par} is noted for its song).
>
> I guess I could see that...
>
> >During the theme song from the show, the members of
> the family were represented by animated Partridge
> birds. I do agree that the {cha'-} part of {cha'par}
> seems sort of random; it might has well have been
> *{vaghpar}, since I think there were 5 family
> members, and not 2.
>
> Right. Though the cha' might just be to keep it
> similar to the other cha's.
> --
>
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