Talk:Tom and Jerry

Most of the other stuff is mined from the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Zappa story is from The Real Frank Zappa Book. Zappa met Simon and Garfunkel in New York and, as the oldies freak he was, was astonished to find out they had been Tom and Jerry. They were reminiscing about being on the road, which was already over for S & G and Zappa impulsively invited them to open the next night in Buffalo, with ensuing stunt. Some moron after the show accused him of making fun of S&G. "What did she think had just happened? That these two superstars had dropped in out of nowhere and we had forced them to sing 'OOO-boppa-loochy-bah, she's mine!'?" Ortolan88

Looks like this is a candidate for disambiguation. Danny

I don't think so. It is all of a piece, from the original down to S&G, all uses of the same two names, one naturally following the other. It progresses admirably from one to the next and tells a story of how a term came to exist and then continued to develop meaning in the culture. There is no ambiguity to be disambiguated. This is my favorite of all the articles I have worked on. I know it doesn't "belong" to me, but watch this space if disambiguation tries to happen. Cordially, Ortolan88 15:51 Jul 21, 2002 (PDT)