Has everyone forgot "Cold Feets?" Worst three minutes of Drowsy. Ever. And I love Two Gentlemen. The whole cast was amazing in the park, especially Rosario Dawson! Of course, that was before Rent came out, summer of 05.
"I'm thinking about how if you took the W in
answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent."
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I think Cold Feets is an absolutely hysterical pastiche. "I'm singin' a song an old negro taught me." At least its better than "greenify" or "momzie and popsicle" Schwartz, while trying to write Harburg-esque lyrics for Wicked, really made them worse by trying to imitate him.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral He is the very model of a modern Major-General
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinapinafore
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral He is the very model of a modern Major-General
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin" When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a sat a gee
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral I am the very model of a modern Major-General
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral He is the very model of a modern Major-General
Those are all real words in "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General," though a couple of the plurals and adjectival forms used are perhaps a bit suspect and "sat-a-gee" may have been created by Gilbert as a kind of mock slang expression.
Why can't Schwartz use things like "momzie and popscicle?" It's totally something that the character of Glinda would say... it works 100% - why not use it?
It seems we are all forgetting one of the biggest cases: wait, I can't even write it. If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler On The Roof. Deidel-deidel-deedle yeidle, something something.
That's a great find, ErinDillyFan. I was taking it to mean "sat facing to the right," from the command to animals to turn to the right, which can also mean "turned to the right."
And by the way, I heard Zero Mostel on the original OBC on one point in "Rich Man" go "If I were a rich man... ya ha didda didda bubba bubba didda derra dum..." or mumbling really incoherently so it sounds like "Yahadehadehadohadehadehadehadum..."
Of course "Seussical" is kerflutapated with them. Like "Schlopp in the Fridgamerator" and so on...
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
There is also "Ooh eeh ooh aah aah ting tang walla-walla bing bang!"
I don't think anyone notices that in "We Go Together" (the movie version) because there is so much going on vocally as it is that one can't even distinguish it. Funny.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
