Crooked cues & twisted shoes
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Crooked cues & twisted shoes
'And all billiard players. I shall have them play in a darkened dungeon all with crooked shoes & twisted shoes.'
Anybody know what this means?
This 'little list' letter might just be the oddest and creepiest of all Z letters.
Anybody know what this means?
This 'little list' letter might just be the oddest and creepiest of all Z letters.
Rocketman- Posts : 909
Join date : 2015-09-14
Age : 60
Location : Toledo, Ohio
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
I have no idea what it means. I couldn't even make a guess. Maybe it was a commonly used expression back then?
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
Isnt it crooked cues & twisted shoes ?
Don Pseuym- Posts : 593
Join date : 2015-08-22
Location : overland park KS
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
It's a derivation of a line featured in The Mikado -
http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/gilbert.html
The advertising quack who wearies
With tales of countless cures,
His teeth, I’ve enacted,
Shall all be extracted
By terrified amateurs.
The music-hall singer attends a series
Of masses and fugues and ‘ops’
By Bach, interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven,
At classical Monday Pops.
The billiard-sharp whom anyone catches
His doom’s extremely hard—
He’s made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that’s always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls,
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/gilbert.html
The advertising quack who wearies
With tales of countless cures,
His teeth, I’ve enacted,
Shall all be extracted
By terrified amateurs.
The music-hall singer attends a series
Of masses and fugues and ‘ops’
By Bach, interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven,
At classical Monday Pops.
The billiard-sharp whom anyone catches
His doom’s extremely hard—
He’s made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that’s always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls,
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
Galaxie500 wrote:It's a derivation of a line featured in The Mikado -
http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/gilbert.html
The advertising quack who wearies
With tales of countless cures,
His teeth, I’ve enacted,
Shall all be extracted
By terrified amateurs.
The music-hall singer attends a series
Of masses and fugues and ‘ops’
By Bach, interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven,
At classical Monday Pops.
The billiard-sharp whom anyone catches
His doom’s extremely hard—
He’s made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that’s always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls,
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
Ah!! Thanks for clearing that up. The Mikado is something I really haven't got around to studying up on yet.
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
I am sure what your meant to take away from the Mikado is ...three. "three little maids are we"
Don Pseuym- Posts : 593
Join date : 2015-08-22
Location : overland park KS
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
I think there was an old woman in S.F. who had something to do with a production of the Mikado in San Francisco and her last name was Stine.
EDIT: It was Isabel Stine. https://zodiackiller.forumotion.com/t238-oliver-isabel-stine
EDIT: It was Isabel Stine. https://zodiackiller.forumotion.com/t238-oliver-isabel-stine
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
ophion1031 wrote:I think there was an old woman in S.F. who had something to do with a production of the Mikado in San Francisco and her last name was Stine.
EDIT: It was Isabel Stine. https://zodiackiller.forumotion.com/t238-oliver-isabel-stine
any relation to paul?
Sick E. Von Brutal- Posts : 720
Join date : 2016-04-09
Age : 41
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
I am into fitness and always prefer getting carbon 38 fitness gear because of their unbeatable product quality, that too at very low prices! The Carbon38 workout leggings and tops are super trendy. They are becoming quite popular among the women because the designs are very unique.
Re: Crooked cues & twisted shoes
Alpers89 wrote:I am into fitness and always prefer getting carbon 38 fitness gear because of their unbeatable product quality, that too at very low prices! The Carbon38 workout leggings and tops are super trendy. They are becoming quite popular among the women because the designs are very unique.
Ummm... thanks?
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