> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> >
> > Let's have a show of hands: How many list members outside the US (and
> > maybe Canada) found the joke less opaque after that explanation?
> >
> > (For myself, I happen to 'know' that the Lone Ranger is the hero (of
> > European descent, presumably) of some sort of popular Western story
> > (TV show? comics? juvenile novels?) in the US, and that Tonto is his
> > American Indian sidekick. But that knowledge was initially only a
> > guess based on then obscure references in US fiction and jokes, now
> > confirmed in so many different instances that I don't doubt my
> > inference anymore. I still haven't seen or read a Lone Ranger story).
> >
>
> Well, I didn't really get it, but I went to the same process
> you describe, and as soon as I arrived at the 'western story' bit
> I decided to skip. Even Lucky Luke can't really interest me
> nowadays. Still, I like this kind of deductions.
>
> Boudewijn Rempt |
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
>