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− | * [http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiLAYEDON2;ttLAYEDOON.html Muldoon, the solid man] | + | * [http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiLAYEDON2;ttLAYEDOON.html Muldoon, the solid man]: a parody song, written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Harrigan Edward Harrigan]; its first performance was probably in March 1874 in conjunction with a variety sketch called "Who Owns the Clothes Line." It became very popular and was covered by many other performers. It probably was spread to Ireland itself through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_hall music-hall] singing of William J. Ashcroft. |
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+ | * The Solid Man: William J. Ashcroft, Dublin music-hall performer | ||
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+ | * sullied: soiled; polluted; defiled | ||
+ | ** Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'' 1.2.129-130: "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew". The First Folio has ''solid'', while Q1 and Q2 have ''sallied'' (in the sense of "assailed"); ''Sullied'' is a nineteenth-century emendation. | ||
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+ | * ''Ulysses'' 099.03: "And how is Dick, the solid man?" |
Revision as of 07:49, 14 June 2006
- Muldoon, the solid man: a parody song, written by Edward Harrigan; its first performance was probably in March 1874 in conjunction with a variety sketch called "Who Owns the Clothes Line." It became very popular and was covered by many other performers. It probably was spread to Ireland itself through the music-hall singing of William J. Ashcroft.
- The Solid Man: William J. Ashcroft, Dublin music-hall performer
- sullied: soiled; polluted; defiled
- Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.129-130: "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew". The First Folio has solid, while Q1 and Q2 have sallied (in the sense of "assailed"); Sullied is a nineteenth-century emendation.
- Ulysses 099.03: "And how is Dick, the solid man?"