Word: pee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devotion, however sometimes spreads beyond traditional outlets. For example he is currently waging a campaign to get Pee Wee Reese named to the Hall of Fame when the Veteran's Committee considers the former Dodger shortstop early next year. Kelly is funding the drive by selling shirts and stickers declaring "PEE WEE BELONGS IN THE HALL...
...bizarre nature of the characters and situations, the force of the puns seems to have been lost in this translation by Robert Chapman, professor of English Literature. Hochepaix, for instance, tries to explain the pronunciation of the last syllable of his name in this witty exchange: "Pay. Not Pee. P-A-I-X." To which Ventroux replies, smugly. "Oh, I beg your pardon. Pay, not Pee. Unintentional error, of course." Similarly, Clarisse doesn't understand why Ventroux is upset that Hochepaix called him a "pretty pair of sights." Ventroux informs her that the term was "party parasite." Jokes like these...
...room is a trove of bric-a-brac: a bogus Oscar inscribed to "Ed Koch, Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel in Egypt...
...Inflation, Iran, Israel and Ineptitude." Joel McCleary, manager of Carter's New York campaign, used a homelier, back-country Georgia metaphor: "You can't pee into a hurricane...
...street hockey every day in sub-freezing weather, using the curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins to glory...