Sunday, May 16, 2021

The Nature of the Thing is Such as to Cause Me to Suspect a Connection, But I Have Yet to Find One

"Ah, schlemihl," he whispered into the phosphoresence. Accident prone, schlimazzel. -- V., by Thomas Pynchon, 1963 (not an affiliate link)

Schlemihl! Schlimazzel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! -- "Making Our Dreams Come True," by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, 1976

I'm somewhat surprised that Fox and Gimbel didn't go with Yoyodyne instead of Hasanpfeffer.

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