Comments on: Funny Bones, 1915 (5) http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/09/funny-bones-1915-5/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David B http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/09/funny-bones-1915-5/comment-page-1/#comment-76408 David B Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:36:18 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=6690#comment-76408 He Knew It: The phone rang vigorously? I suppose this is in contrast to all the other times, when it rang lethargically.

A Youthful Critic: An old, well-worn joke, here notable for its pre-Grateful Dead, pre-railroad use of the word deadhead.

p.s. The first recorded use of the term deadhead in its Grateful Dead sense occurred in 1971, in a Rolling Stone review that predicted that the music of the Dead wouldn’t stand the test of time.

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