tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post114291505160234508..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: WNO at 50: Who for Whom, and How!Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1143224424863296202006-03-24T13:20:00.000-05:002006-03-24T13:20:00.000-05:00Dear Fish,the reviewer is guiltless as - and the w...Dear Fish,<BR/><BR/>the reviewer is guiltless as - and the watery critic of this post may even know so much - the haw-haw's were slipped in by the jr.editor (jfl). 'haw haw' is the best known english representation of a fruity, somewhat unitelligible laugh. A "Haw haw" as uttered self-satisfiedly or (as here) in mockery in response to a joke that would have fallen flat were it not for the jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1143081970038553762006-03-22T21:46:00.000-05:002006-03-22T21:46:00.000-05:00The 'haw' by dictionary definition is 1. the fruit...The 'haw' by dictionary definition is 1. the fruit of the hawthorn, as in the famous "Glastonbury thorn", or 2. something unintelligible or inarticulate. Two 'haws' would then seem to be either two fruits, or two unintelligibilities. Your reviewer might wish to elucidate?<BR/><BR/>Mr. FishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1142951471599489062006-03-21T09:31:00.000-05:002006-03-21T09:31:00.000-05:00Very interesting. Yet surely more Ionarts readers...Very interesting. Yet surely more Ionarts readers than myself wish to know: was Anna Nicole Smith present at this gala event? There is more than one kind of theater, after all.<BR/><BR/>Rune EggpoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com