And now
Tyrone C Horneigh
has gone the way of Henry Gibson, at last,
because the news came out today
that Arte Johnson has died.   

I dearly wish I could have seen the performance,
which review I read later on.
It was an opera company's
Die Fledermaus, here in the US (probably West Coast)
in English translation -- and if you know
what liberties are taken with Die Fledermaus,
you know that ANYTHING is possibly.

Whatever Arte Johnson played (Frosch, maybe?) in the production,
he had spoken dialogue added in,
and the reviewer noted that his character,
along with some other Fledermaus character,
spoke mostly English but threw in German words here and there,

with the two of them stammering and struggling to pronounce

"G - G - G'm - G'm't - G'mttl' -- Gem'm'm'UETlichkeit!"