Monday, September 25, 2006

Buffalo Ghosts

I have a lot of garbage in my head. No, not just that, I mean junk, detritus, mental lumber. That last buffalo post triggered a mind virus from, I think, Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strip circa 1955 (though Google draws a blank here). As I remember, there was a vaudeville riff:
Hear that whistle puff and blow
As the train pulls out of Kokomo--
Hello, Joe, whaddya know,
I just got back from Buffalo.
Except in the last panel, the last line is transmogrified into
Poltergeists are the principal form of spontaneous manisfestations.
Hilarious. Okay, so maybe you had to have been there.

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