blake murphy wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:29:21 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > Takis wrote:
> >
> >> Which is the most tender and tasty piece of meat for grilling, and for
> >> roasting?
> >
> > You can't match all 4 of your requirements at once (tender tasty
grilling
> > roasting). If there was such a piece of meat, it would account for 90%
of
> > all meat sales.
> >
> > -sw
>
> shmoo!
>
> <http://www.lil-abner.com/shmoo.html>
>
> though i hear that now they're injected with salt water.
>
> your pal,
> daisy mae


I recently got the DVD of the 1959 movie of _Lil' Abner_, it's pretty
amazing. LOTSA sly digs at politicians and military bureaucracy and big
capitalism and the like. It's a *totally* studio - bound production with
amazing sets and costumes that surely must have been an inspiration for Tim
Burton. It features the film debut of statuesque Julie Newmar aka
"Stupefyin' Jones" who is a "secret weapon" - she lives in an ICBM nose
cone! Donna Douglas (who would later be "Elly Mae" on _The Beverly
Hillbillies_ and Valerie Harper (of later _Rhoda_ fame) are two of the
hillybilly honeys featured. Edie Adams played Daisy Mae on Broadway, alas
she is missing in this film version, but Leslie Parrish does a great job in
any case. It's "interesting" that Mammy Yoakum's tonic makes men big,
brawny, and handsome - but renders them *totally* dis-interested in wimmins!
Is this a "***" subtext, who knows!? Some of the transformed muscle boys in
the film were actually performers in Mae West's stage act which she had at
that time...

No shmoos, unfortunately :-{

I got it for around six bux from www.deepdiscount.com ...blake you'd like
it, for nothing else but it's sly anti - establishment stance. What it says
about government and business is as modern as tomorrow's headlines. And it
makes me laff, it's a great comedy with outlandish cartoon - ish
characters...

FYI here's a good review:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1567abne.html

[excerpt]

"...The movie Li'l Abner is almost startling to look at cold - it's stagey
in a way that suggests a Tex Avery Cartoon, or an exaggerated Frank Tashlin
movie. Many of the jokes are about sex in them thar hills: underaged
divorcées, incredibly oversexed females and broken-down males in
Burlesque-style baggy pants and scruffy beards with permanent leers on their
faces..."


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Best
Greg