[Sca-cooks] Buffalo Liver

[Marcus Antaya]

Actually, the "slowly I turned" bit was also used in the musical "Godspell"

It's quite funny to see a whole line of 13 people doing it in unison....

Gyric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Buffalo Liver


> Also sprach Randall Cook of Northpass:
> >  > Perhaps something chopped... in a Buffalo chopper...
> >>
> >>  Adamantius (slooooowly I turned... step by step... innnnch by inch...)
> >
> >I think I missed that one... isn't that the "Susquehanna Hat Company"
> >routine?
>
> In short, yes. Several comedians have done this routine in vaudeville
> and elsewhere; most people will be familiar with the Abbot and
> Costello version[s], but several others have done it before and since
> (The Ritze Brothers' is probably the definitive version).
>
> But yes, the logical sequence of things that cannot be mentioned to
> the narrator were:
>
> The Susquehanna Hat Company,
>
> on
>
> Floogle Street (sometimes Bagel Street)
>
> in
>
> Niagara Falls (sometimes Buffalo -- which is how we got here from this
thread)
>
> Milton Berle did a musical version that involved not being able to
> say "Buffalo" without dire consequences, complete with the requisite
> "slowly I turned" bit as part of the formula.
>
> Adamantius
>
>
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