raz@mi-cec.UUCP (06/10/83)
We have HBO on cable here, and while watching one of the Bugs Bunny movies, one of the jokes went right past me. To wit: Yosemite Sam is trying to throw Bugs off of a diving platform and into a tub of water. Bugs, of course, will have none of it. Anyway, Bugs builds a door on the platform and Sam says: 'Open that door (notice I didn't say Richard?)' OK triviites... where is that from? Hint: I don't know either.
tom@rlgvax.UUCP (06/14/83)
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I have heard the phrase "open the door, Richard" before in a song of
the same name done by Thunderclap Newman (an English group; you may
remember them for the song "Something In the Air") in the 60's. Unless
it is a historical folk tune, it obvously postdates Bugs Bunny, so I
imagine that Bugs' quote and this both refer back to a common source.
I also seem to remember a song by Bob Dylan (one of those on the
"Basement Tapes") titled "Open the Door, Homer". I don't have that album
and I don't have the Thunderclap Newman album handy to check references
so I don't know the relationship (if any) between the two songs. Would
anyone care to check this out?
The chorus for the Thunderclap Newman song is (approximately) as follows:
"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
But I ain't gonna hear it said no more.
- Tom Beres
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