Because if “Doh!” could be linked to dada, that would just be too cool.
Ok, a slightly twisty, bumpy road for you to follow this morning:
- I’ve been following @jdistraction on Twitter for some time now, but haven’t actually made it all the way to her blog. You know how it is; too many things to read every day as it is, and so forth and so on, but I may just be too lazy to get there, too. I don’t know.
- So, today, she tweeted a link to her blog, advising of a picture there in need of a caption (well, apparently in need of everyone’s captions), and solely because her blog is called Zebra Sounds, I had to go check it out.
- So, I liked it. I subscribed to it in Google Reader, and Google Reader, as is its habit, served me up with the last ten posts. So, I looked them over. The earliest one of the bunch has the following:
- And now for something completely different… I subscribe to a news letter that recently arrived in my inbox with this headline: “Want to see the personalized stationery of Hitler, Houdini and Elvis?” I thought, “Absolutely, are you kidding?” because that’s how I roll. (For real.) I love this site. Have fun.
- Well, how I roll is I click on random stuff, so I clicked through. And I found this:
- As one commenter noted “Dada had stationery. Who knew?” But the really interesting bit was this (blown up a bit, and it’s not a very high resolution image to begin with):
- I wasn’t really able to make much of that, but it did seem likely that someone named [G. or C.] Ridemont-[something French-looking] had something to do with dada (a movement with which, I must admit, I’m not very familiar). I did a search for [dada ridemont], and got a handful of hits, which garnered a name for me:
- Georges Ridemont-Dessaignes
- There, I am at a dead end, as M Ridemont-Dessaignes has a sum total of two hits on his name, and both of them are in French. (You do know that the technical term for a person who speaks more than one language is “polyglot,” right? You do know that the technical term for a person who speaks only one is “American,” right?)
- So, to sum up:
- At one time, there was an organization (?) whose name was D (subscript) O (superscript) H (superscript).
- The superscripts may be 4 and 2, respectively. Then again, they may not.
- This organization had something to do with dada (?).
And just to reiterate, if “Doh!” could be linked (however flimsily) to dada, that would just be too cool!
Any art majors out there who want to enlighten me?
