12-11-2009, 07:37 AM
I've never really gotten into Through the Looking Glass, so I can't reply to that.
But since this is now an "Alice" thread, I wanted to share something I've noticed..
I've seen a lot of Cialis ads on TV. It's pronounced "see Alice", and it occurred to me that there's the Jefferson Airship song that has "Go ask Alice" in it.
That song, "White Rabbit", starts out with "One pill makes you larger". The pharmers are being cute, eh?
Of course, it continues with "one pill makes you small" -- that's probably steroids -- and then with "the ones Mother gives you don't do anything at all" -- the doc prolly gave her a placebo, as opposed to what the other mother got in the Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" (probably Valium).
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As for Alice of Arizona, she worked at Mel's Diner, IIRC. Her son was Tommy. Suzanne Vega has a song, "Tom's Diner", perhaps Tommy got the diner?
The show's theme song had Alice coming from a different place ("if things work out, I'm gonna stay a while"). So maybe she came from Massachusetts. She did have a bit of an accent tho' when I was a pup I wouldn't have known if it was a Boston voice or not.
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And while I'm doing mindless TV references... Some of you may remember Vandelay Industries from a different, more recent show. I have sometimes signed off as being a member of it. A couple days ago, I actually saw the corporate vehicle -- a car that had the plate VANDLAY. I didn't get to see who was driving it.
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Don't worry Pete (I know you won't) but some of us do indeed recognize "Walk right in, it's around the back..."
-V
But since this is now an "Alice" thread, I wanted to share something I've noticed..
I've seen a lot of Cialis ads on TV. It's pronounced "see Alice", and it occurred to me that there's the Jefferson Airship song that has "Go ask Alice" in it.
That song, "White Rabbit", starts out with "One pill makes you larger". The pharmers are being cute, eh?
Of course, it continues with "one pill makes you small" -- that's probably steroids -- and then with "the ones Mother gives you don't do anything at all" -- the doc prolly gave her a placebo, as opposed to what the other mother got in the Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" (probably Valium).
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As for Alice of Arizona, she worked at Mel's Diner, IIRC. Her son was Tommy. Suzanne Vega has a song, "Tom's Diner", perhaps Tommy got the diner?
The show's theme song had Alice coming from a different place ("if things work out, I'm gonna stay a while"). So maybe she came from Massachusetts. She did have a bit of an accent tho' when I was a pup I wouldn't have known if it was a Boston voice or not.
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And while I'm doing mindless TV references... Some of you may remember Vandelay Industries from a different, more recent show. I have sometimes signed off as being a member of it. A couple days ago, I actually saw the corporate vehicle -- a car that had the plate VANDLAY. I didn't get to see who was driving it.
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Don't worry Pete (I know you won't) but some of us do indeed recognize "Walk right in, it's around the back..."
-V