From: BiersBlackwood-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:27:29 EDT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppeteer slang
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


As told to Walter Wilkinson:   "When (Jim Body) was boozed he used to start 
swearin' if he couldn't git the dolls up quick enough... and all the people 
outside could hear him...   And then he used to start banging about and nearly 
knock the show over.   It used to rock about, and there was me 'olding on to it 
and 'im inside a-cussing 'orrible, shouting out that the dashed dolls wouldn't 
keep still, and talkin' to 'em, and telling 'em to keep still as if they was 
alive."

Evidently the dolls were the ones doing the wagging in this case.

Some more Punch and Judy slang, or argot:   the covering around the theatre 
is called "the windings," and the cap at the top of the booth, often slanted 
upwards to aid in vocal projection, is called "the tilt."

Sean K.
http://www.puppets.inuk.com/americas/usroundup.htm
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