A Rose By any other ...( I want to be a Dentist!)

[Darth Eggplant]

Shakespeare said

"A Rose by any other name..."

well what if Will was shall we say

Botanically impaired?

perhaps he saw a petunia

and he mistook it for a rose.

and what he meant to say was

a petunia by any other name...

yet history and litterature

and the common vernacular has

co-opted it and the phrase

is now rose.

what I am getting at

working up to it is this:

 

pop quiz;

what is the name of the dentist elf

in the Rankin & Bass

Christmas classic

"Rodoulph the Red Nosed Reindeer?"

 

I ask this because for years

friends and I have called him

....

and I have heard comedians joke

and call him ...

(same three dots as above)

and yet recently Hallmark

put out toys and stuff

of Rodoulph and company

and they called ...

::: instead.

and I looked and said :::

no it is ...

that is a missprint

and I researched it

and I even went to

Ranklin & bass's website

and I found they are very ticked off

because they get huge amounts

of fan mail asking the same thing.

the elf who wants to be a dentist

is called ... not :::

and R&B's response is

well we can not help it if all

of you people heard the name wrong.

 

Well I think it is not millons

of people around the world's fault

if all of the voice actors

in the classic animated cartoon

DID NOT ENUNCIATE CLEAR ENOUGH.

I mean getting back to the bard

he may have meant pansy

but we as a collective whole

say otherwise.

 

I think Hallmark and Ranklin & Bass

can not stand to admit that a typo

was made packaging the product

and they refuse to recall and correct

the slip up.

 

I also want ... name to be officially

sanctioned. and to forget about this :::

business.

 

anyway pop culture quiz

what was the elf's name

who wanted to be a dentist?

 

as you can see I did not say the name

I want to see how many of you also

think his name is ... not :::

[mxbx]

Was it Marlowe? Don Quixote would know, I'm sure of it.

 

Oh wait, this isn't one of your MENSA games.