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."