[lbo-talk] Off-topic: Movie question

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 08:27:21 PDT 2010


You may be thinking of "The Snake Story" - at least the "sank its teeth into the marauder's fetlock" part is right - but that was a radio episode, not movie.

And "[o]ff-topic"? HERE? Phooey and pshaw.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:

Which WC Fields movie is it where he keeps saying the word
> 'snake' and there's a prim dowager who faints dead away
> every time? Did I dream this? Googling has turned up
> nothing.
>
> As I recall he's telling a rambling anecdote about a
> pet rattler who at some point "fastened his fangs into
> the intruder's fetlock" -- the only words I feel halfway
> confident I've got right are "fangs" and "fetlock".
>

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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