Nagonnalogy
an NIH special report
One of the many contributions to humour of the great Roger Price was the nagonna, which he introduced in the 1960s in his magazine Grump.
The nagonna was a statement of your refusal to indulge in some type of behaviour characteristic of rubes (or roobs, as Grump used to have it, if our aging memories can be depended on).
It seemed to us that the desire not to be a roob has dwindled to a dangerously low level, and so for your enjoyment and edification we present a few contemporary nagonnas here.
And most of all:
- I'm nagonna get a cellphone so I can have a choice of 300 downloadable ringtones.
- I'm nagonna get up before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.like Condoleezza Rice and tell them that Saddam Hussein duped the United Nations weapons inspectors into believing that he had got rid of his weapons of mass destruction by means of the cunning ruse of actually getting rid of them.
- I'm nagonna watch anything with Ben Mulroney in it.
- I'm nagonna say that you have less chance of winning the lottery than of being struck by lightning.
- I'm nagonna get a cellphone so I can play cool online games with it.
- I'm nagonna privatize Ontario Hydro (click here for a series of articles about why only roobs would want to do that).
- I'm nagonna complain about the Canadian government not supporting the U. S. on Iraq and then once the U. S. screws up act as if I never said a word.
- I'm nagonna get a cellphone so I can download MP3s with it.
- I'm nagonna pay money for clothes with advertising on them.
- I'm nagonna write angry letters to the Sun, the National Post, and CTV about liberal dominance of the media.
I'm absolutely nagonna believe the Leafs have a chance at the Stanley Cup.
Nagonnalogy © Coolth, 2003
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