[78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey [FWD]

Mike Harkin harkinmike at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 6 23:56:39 PST 2008




--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:51 AM
> Appliance songs, well lemme see,
> How 'bout "The Schick of Araby?"

Would a ladies' shaver be a Shikse?

Oy gevaldt!

Mike in Plovdiv, der zol zikh shemen!
> 
> Bud  (ducking) 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Randy Watts
> Date: 12/6/2008 1:21:38 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey
>  
> You know, all the years I've heard "I'm Thru
> with Love," I never thought of
> that as being intentionally punning. Just always took the
> resemblance of 
> frigid air" to "Frigidaire" as coincidence.
> Never bothered me that a heart
> could not literally have frigid air in it. After all,
> I've never read of an
> actual stringed heart, either. Zinging or otherwise.
>  
> Randy
>  
>  
> --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> wrote:
>  
> > From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina
> Fey
> > To: "78-L Mail List"
> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 11:21 PM
> > >
> > > A friend and I have argued about this for years.
> He
> > insists the word is "Frigidaire," a
> reference to
> > the refrigerator. I've always believed it was
> > "frigid air." "I've stocked my
> heart with
> > icy, frigid air."   Randy
> > >
> > Jim Whipkey wrote:
> >
> > > Randy, I  can tell you  absolutely  I believe the
> song
> > refers  simply to
> >
> > > the brand name refrigerator because  it is  what 
> I
> > grew up  hearing anytime
> > > a reference was made to the box  powered by 
> electric
> > (or gas) was
> > > mentioned.
> >
> > IT'S A PUN.  It is a reference to the trade name
> BUT IT
> > MEANS FRIGID
> > AIR.  How the holy hell can you stock your heart with
> a
> > refrigerator????????????  Of course if you had air in
> your
> > heart you
> > would DIE, so that makes no sense either, but it is
> OBVIOUS
> > that it is a
> > PUN on the word that the singer is saying that
> protecting
> > themselves
> > from being hurt by their lover.
> >
> > For Pete's sake, I can't imagine anyone on
> this
> > list, of all places, not
> > recognizing a PUN.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >   My paternal Grandmother's first  and 
> evermore
> > refrigerators
> > > from the time  she  no longer had an Ice Box was
> > always  a gas powered
> > > Servel refrigerator,  it was always referred to
> as the
> > "Frigidaire" My
> > > maternal Grandmother had a real  Ice Box, with 
> daily
> > deliveries of ice
> > > until after  World War II, when she got a genuine
> > Frigidaire refrigerator
> > > and to her dying day, more than 30 years later,
> > always referred to it as
> > > the "Ice Box".  And to reinforce  my
> belief,
> > I recall seeing the sheet
> > > music, my Father had a small band and  seemingly
> every
> > song  published  and
> > > the word   was spelled Frigidaire.
>  
>  
>  
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