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yorkster

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14. I have a dim memory of seeing Elaine Stritch doing that version on the telly long ago.

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:38 AM

Oct 2025

Also back in the day in Gloucester MA at a restaurant called The Rudder, the owner, Evie, and her very funny daughters would do this entire routine.
Evie did the recitation, then would stand on her head.
One of the daughters would blast a trumpet.. then do balletic swoops across the "dining room". It was hilarious.

Thanks for a great memory prompt. I remember it as the "sisty uglers", but.there no doubt a few versions..

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