Friday, June 16, 2006
My cheap two cents guess
I just read blisshog's question of the morning, and I think Gould meant Schwarzkopff not as in Stormin Norman but as in Stormin Norman's aunt, the famed soprano Elisabeth, Both spellings with f or ff were in common usage at that time even in the press (though people would laugh at the double ff as it could easily stand for "friendly fire". Get it? Sometimes the name would be mispelled "Schwartzkopf, even in the press, although the family likely long ago had dropped the "t" as too cumbersome a spelling of a foreign name and besides it could be construed to mean "black". Something like the Guv'nor's name, see?)
(p.s. a wild guess -- i think she vehemently objected to peter seller's parody, "would it not be loverly" but that's just a wild wild guess. because you con't make fun of dose notzies.) ¶ 6/16/2006 08:21:00 AM
I just read blisshog's question of the morning, and I think Gould meant Schwarzkopff not as in Stormin Norman but as in Stormin Norman's aunt, the famed soprano Elisabeth, Both spellings with f or ff were in common usage at that time even in the press (though people would laugh at the double ff as it could easily stand for "friendly fire". Get it? Sometimes the name would be mispelled "Schwartzkopf, even in the press, although the family likely long ago had dropped the "t" as too cumbersome a spelling of a foreign name and besides it could be construed to mean "black". Something like the Guv'nor's name, see?)
(p.s. a wild guess -- i think she vehemently objected to peter seller's parody, "would it not be loverly" but that's just a wild wild guess. because you con't make fun of dose notzies.) ¶ 6/16/2006 08:21:00 AM
