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Article 13 of rec.humor.funny:
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Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!enea!mcvax!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!texbell!ssbn!lzfme!think!bloom-beacon!watmath!looking!funny-request
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
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Subject: Warner Brothers song
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Keywords: original, chuckle
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Message-ID: <2688@looking.UUCP>
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Date: 27 Jan 89 11:30:06 GMT
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Sender: funny@looking.UUCP
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Lines: 106
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Approved: funny@looking.UUCP
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Reply-Path: uunet!athena.mit.edu!dryfoo
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} From: <name omitted>
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} Subject: Re: On with the Show this is it...
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}
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} In article <identifiers omitted> <another name omitted> writes:
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} > Could someone please send me the complete set of words for the song
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} > that opens/closes the bugs bunny cartoons. You know...the song starts
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} > off something like this:
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} >
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} > Oh Mashay, Purple Lights
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} > This is it; the life we like
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} > We've been rehearsing and working our parts
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} > We know every part by heart...
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}
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} My goodness! "Oh Mashay, Purple Lights"?
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}
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} <insert badly suppressed laughter here>
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}
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} I'm sorry, I'll behave now.
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} ....
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} From: <someone else's name omitted>
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} This is TOTALLY from long-term memory, probably not totally right, but
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} it's the best I can come up with for now...
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}
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} Overture, curb the lights,
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} This is it, the night of nights,
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} ...
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} Are there other verses?
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Actually, <omitted> wasn't too far off. I have a newly-released book on
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the Warner Bros. animation studios (the real inside story) called "From
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Cels to Cells -- Bugs, Thugs, and Drugs at Warner Brothers" And it lists
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the words to this song. If you sing it, you'll see how well it fits the
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tune. I'll add explanations as appropriate:
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Oh Mache' Curb the Lights!
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This a zit? Deny the knights!
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No Morey -- hearse
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Ignore nursing apart.
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Ween? Oh, Avery part! Pie art!
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Oh, Mature! Curb the Lights!
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This a zit? We lit the hides!
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And owe what hides we lit.
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Unwitting Joe, This a zit?
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NOTES:
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OH MACHE' -- (as in paper-mache -- for various reasons, this was WB
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slang for heroin)
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CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (The assistant animators and 'tweeners used to laugh
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at how badly their stoned-out bosses reacted to the bright lights used
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in production.)
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THIS A ZIT? -- (Cartoon characters never have complexion problems
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before their close up scenes. This was the animation studio's dig at
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live actors and the difficulties of working with them.)
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DENY THE KNIGHTS! -- (Again, a dig at the live stuff. WB had been
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cranking out those chivalry epics one after another.)
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NO MOREY HEARSE -- (Morey Amsterdam wanted to do some voices for them,
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and the animators wanted him. Blanc pulled some strings with Jack
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Warner, though, and Morey was `dead')
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IGNORE NURSING APART -- (Chuck Jones's very shapely young wife was
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nursing her new baby around the studios, and he'd asked everyone --
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especially the lascivious Tex Avery -- not to stare at her.)
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WEEN? OH, AVERY PART! PIE ART! -- (Jones frequently threatened to
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decorate Avery's face with a pie if he (TA) didn't stop staring at his
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(CJ) wife's breasts.
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OH, MATURE! -- (Victor Mature was always hanging around the studios,
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trying to get them to model a 'toon after him. The couldn't get rid of
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him.)
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CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (ibid)
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THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid)
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WE LIT THE HIDES! -- (Referring to the evening of the drunken rampage in
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which they burned all the old WB Tarzan costumes.)
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AND OWE WHAT HIDES WE LIT. -- (They, of course, had to reimburse the
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studio for this arsonous running amok.)
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UNWITTING JOE -- (Their secret nickname for a local teamster boss who
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had a lot of leverage over all their union staff)
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THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid)
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} Are there other verses?
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Yes, but you don't want to hear 'em. They are *reeeaaalllly* obscure!
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Hope this helps.
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--
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Gary L. Dryfoos
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--
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Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.UUCP
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