January 29th, 2009 / 1:57 pm
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Enough with all this literature. Let’s have some ukulele music!

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Here’s something else. Embedding of this youtube video has been disabled, so please follow this link. And then come back.

That was Cliff Edwards or “Ukulele Ike,” known to many of us as the voice of Disney’s Jiminy Cricket. As you can see, in addition to his career as a Vaudevillian, Edwards was also a World War I interrogator of German prisoners. In the video, we see him (and a fellow Imperialist American torturer slash tap dancer) engaged in some Abu Ghraib-style tactics, playing music that the subject clearly finds unbearable.

No doubt she moments later spilled all sorts of beans about the Kaiser’s plans, eh? Possibly she revealed the location of Wilhelm II mustache wax factory.

Literary tie-in: Cliff Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri. Also from Hannibal? Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL. Discuss.

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12 Comments

  1. Blake Butler

      thank fucking god

  2. Blake Butler

      let’s only ever talk about Mark Twain on here from now on. I am serious.

  3. Blake Butler

      thank fucking god

  4. Blake Butler

      let’s only ever talk about Mark Twain on here from now on. I am serious.

  5. Jereme Dean

      I heard Mark Twain was a pioneer of prostate massaging.

  6. Jereme Dean

      I heard Mark Twain was a pioneer of prostate massaging.

  7. Matthew Simmons

      Okay. Now discuss harder.

  8. Matthew Simmons

      Okay. Now discuss harder.

  9. Jereme Dean

      eh i only open my mouth about what i know.

      the literary elite can discuss harder.

      dad seems moody anyways. i am scared he will beat us again.

  10. Jereme Dean

      eh i only open my mouth about what i know.

      the literary elite can discuss harder.

      dad seems moody anyways. i am scared he will beat us again.

  11. Ken Baumann

      I agree please.

  12. Ken Baumann

      I agree please.