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Thread #167039   Message #4023887
Posted By: keberoxu
15-Dec-19 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: song challenge: finish Bernadette parody
Subject: RE: song challenge: finish Bernadette parody
The comedy writer who improvised the above fragment,
and left it incomplete,
was the father of Jean Houston.
"Jack Houston" is how his daughter identifies him,
I have failed in my attempts
to find out his formal name.

The unfinished parody is often quoted when
Jean Houston reminisces about her upbringing,
as she was a child when her father came up with the parody.

The earliest source I could find for the parody
is Jean Houston's book, The Possible Human, on page 185,
1982, publisher J. P. Tarcher.