The fountain pen is mightier than the Glock, at least in Dingburg’s dream world:
The real-world Emory Parnell was a vaudevillian and character actor — yet another of Griffy’s film associations (see Theophylact’s comment here).
Meanwhile, guns and pens are of course phallic symbols, and I’ve been slogging my way through a series of postings on phallicity on my X blog. So far:
9/5/10: Phallicity: the introduction (link)
9/12/10: Phallicity: Würste (link)
9/13/10: Phallicity: innocent? (1) (link)
9/13/10: Phallicity: innocent? (2) (link)
Several more to come.
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