[78-L] New blog devoted to 78rpm records

[David Lennick]

Le ho ho. Last night I was listing Sidney Bechet's "La Nuit Est Une Sorciere" 
and based on my recollection of it, almost typed "L'Ennui" instead. Anyone up 
for a chorus of Irving Berlin's "Poutine On the Ritz"?

That cunning linguist DL

On 1/28/2012 4:56 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Makes ceints to me!
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com>wrote:
>
>> O god, another punster. This time in French!!
>> Mal
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 1/28/2012 11:39 AM, Thomas HENRY wrote:
>>> Yes, the common sense is that 78s were made of bakelite, but my blog's
>>> name is also a reference to a famous French song by Serge Gainsbourg
>>> mentioning "seins de bakelite" (breasts of bakelite), "ceints de
>>> bakelite" (my blog's name, pronounced in the same way) meaning
>>> "surrounded by bakelite". OK, this reference is hardly understandable
>>> outside of France...
>>>
>>> 2012/1/28 David Breneman<david_breneman at yahoo.com>:
>>>> From: Thomas HENRY<thomashenry81 at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm a new member in this list. I created a few months ago the blog
>>>>> "Ceints de bakelite" devoted to my 78rpm records collection.
>>>> Are 78s popularly believed to be made of Bakelite in France?
>>>> As you probably know, many Americans thought they were made
>>>> of wax.
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