"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Wot about HENRY The Horse (who dances the waltz)? Or "Harry The Hawk", for Softly Softly fans?
Bah!
Dave Larrington - legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uklegslarry.beerdrinkers.co.ukOpen ↗
Why, Dave, it is Harry the Horse because he is a guy who is more famous than somewhat in circles
where sometimes it is better to go by just your initials in the script because although Broadway
producers have plenty of scratch they like to save a little here and there because it all adds up,
and besides, some of them do not wish to make it too clear who is who in case the script winds up in
front of a judge.
Anyway, you can find HTH in scripts for "Guys and Dolls," which is a play with plenty of gals who
ought to know better and fellows who sing to them even so, one of them being Sky Masterson, who is a
pretty fair hand with the dice even though he comes from a small town in Colorado and is sucker
enough to fall for Miss Sarah Brown, though if you have to fall for someone she will do nicely and
there are worse things than ending up with her in the Salvation Army band, as Dave the Dude finds
out in another story, which is not named "The Idyll of Miss Sara Brown."
Now all of this is the fault of another fellow who grows up in Pueblo, Colorado, and unlike others
shakes the dust off his shoes and leaves for New York, where he makes more money than somewhat
writing stories in the present tense that scarcely ever use contractions about Harry the Horse,
Angie the Ox, Dave the Dude, and other individuals who as far as I know never take an interest in
bicycles except if there is someone else who will offer to bet against them. It is a very hard style
to imitate, but this does not stop other fellows from Pueblo because they only hope and trust that
other fans will notice the little touches and commence to re-reading the stories.
Well, we do not have to worry about any of these citizens elbowing their way into rec.bicycles.tech
because although they would fit right in Jobst the Spoke and Chalo the Machinist and Sheldon from
Boston they deplore anything that resembles controversy or disagreement and also never smarten up a
chump unless there is something in it for them.
I would sign this as is my custom but it occurs to me that a nameless narrator is an even better
trick if you do not wish to annoy certain parties who may resent things and that it worked pretty
well for Damon Runyon.
