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Sander deWaal wrote:

dave weil said:


And do you REALLY think that my use of the word curt was accidental?


Is "curt" an existing word, then?
If so, what does it mean?


I mean REALLY?


Being a nice person, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time.


Or should I pander and start throwing a lotta smarmy-winkies all over
the place?


You mean like Arny does? Please. ;-)


Oh wait, I guess I have to say "a Lotte" smarmy-winkies so that
everyone gets the joke...


IIRC, Lotte Lehmann was a great Strauss performer, among other things,
but what has this got to do with all of the above?

Did she sing in Weill's and Brecht's opera, then? That's news to me!

Nope, but of course Weill's wife Lotte LENYA was a star of the original
production, and also contributed to the composition process of TPO as
well as Mahagonny, Speak Low, etc. And she was named in the pop version
of "Mack the Knife". ;-)