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11 Sharp Facts About Annie Oakley

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  1. As a little girl, she once owned a doll with pigtails, a calico dress, big eyelashes, rosy red painted-on cheeks, a basket, patent-leather shoes, doily-type bloomers, toy sidearms, a red lipstick smile and a pretend baby carriage, which she had more respect for and thought more masculine than she would David Hogg. True fact.

  2. Harvey, Get your Gun!

    Anything you can do I can do better
    I can do anything better than you
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can! Yes, I can!

    Any site you can cite I’ll incite better
    Sooner or later, a creator like you
    No, you’re not
    Yes, I am
    No, you’re not
    Yes, I am
    No, you’re not
    Yes, I am, yes I am

    I can kick ass at parodyin’, like David Carradine
    I can go to Sbarro with a bow and arrow
    I can live on bread and cheese
    Like “Manos, the Hand of Fate”?
    Yes
    So third-rate . . .

    Any note you can hit I can go sideways
    I can think anything weirder than you
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can

    Anywhere you can pry I can pry deeper
    I can chide cheaper per hour than you
    Fifty cents
    Forty cents
    Thirty cents
    With common sense
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can! Yes, I can!

    Anything U.S.A. I can say “save her”
    I can say “save her” safer than you
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can! Yes, I can!

    I can make “Dateline” into a Straight Line
    I can do it quicker. and get even sicker
    I can open any safe space
    “Without being caught?”
    Sure —
    That’s what I thought (you crook!)

    Any summation you can give to the nation
    I can give a rotation stronger than you
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can! Yes, I can!
    No, you can’t — Yes, I can!

    Anything Basil wears I can wear better
    In what he wears I’d look better than you
    In his coat
    In his vest
    In his shoes
    In his hat
    No, you can’t
    Yes, I can! Yes, I can!

    Anything you can say he can let fester
    Basil lets anything fester for you
    No, he can’t
    Yes, he can
    No, he can’t
    Yes, he can
    No, you can’t
    Yes, he can
    No, he can’t
    Yes, he can! Yes, he can!

    I can jump a hurdle
    I can wear a girdle
    I can knit a sweater
    I can fill it better . . .
    …. Oh, wait. I thought we were doing the Lumberjack Sketch….

    I can do most anything
    Can you make a joke about pi?
    No
    Neither can I

    Anything you can add? I’m not a Tweeter
    I can’t think of anyone on Twitter but you
    Yes, you can
    No, I can’t
    Oh, yes, you can
    No, I can’t
    Yes, you can
    No, I can’t
    Yes, you can
    No, I can’t, can’t, can’t
    Yes, you can, can, can, can
    No, I can’t
    Yes, you can . . .

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