Re: Dick Summer WBZ

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:02:52 -0500 DonKelley@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:28:34 +0000, 
> Dan.Strassberg@att.net writes:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >One of the 
> > items was a piece that Dick Summer claims to have authored and 
> which Summer 
> > used repeatedly on his WBZ program back in the '60s. Anyone who 
> called, got 
> > through, and recited the part that included 1, 2 and 3, became 
> eligible to win 
> > a movie pass. Anyone who could recite the entire piece would 
> automatically win. 
> > At no point in my life was I ever able to recite the entire thing, 
> but back in 
> > the late '60s, I had learned most of it. Old age is catching up 
> with me, 
> > though; this morning I couldn't even remember the first item (the 
> item that 
> > contains 1).
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four corpulent porpoises, 
> five Limerick oysters, 6 pairs of Don Alberzo's tweezers...7000 
> Macedonians in full battle array. 8 brass monkeys from the ancient 
> sacred crypts of Egypt, 9 apathetic sympathetic diabetical men on 
> roller saktes with a marked propensity for procrastination and 
> sloth. 10 lyrical, shperical, diabolical denizens of the deep who 
> all...stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the queasy 
> at the very same time.  Toot, toot.

Quick, here comes Irving the Venus Flytrap Supreme...;-))))
I never heard that Dick Summer claimed to have authored that, I thought
it was a tongue twister than an old time broadcaster (not that Dick
Summer can't be described that way now) used as a warmup before going on
the air,  I don't recall who it was.
df