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Sunday, March 26, 2006

SEMPRINI?!

Semprini elected party chairman of state GOP:

New Hampshire Republicans elected Wayne Semprini as their new party chairman Saturday.
Semprini, 55, of New Castle, will replace Warren Henderson, who resigned because of family health problems.

There is a Monty Python sketch where Michael Palin runs through a list of "naughty" words that are no longer allowed to be used on the program. The words include things like B*M, KN*CKERS, KN*CKERS, B*TTY, and SEMPRINI.

At that point, a girl rushes on in disbelief, shouting, "Semprini?!" She's rushed out of the studio.

Then, cut to the chemist's scene where we'd been a few minutes earlier. The chemist exits his dispensary and asks the customers waiting for their prescriptions, "Who's got a boil on his Semprini, then?" He, too, is rushed out of the studio by the censors.

Now that there is actually somebody with that name, especially a politician, where did it come from?

Turns out Semprini was a pianist. Whether he was a 12-inch one is anybody's guess. But he performed for many years on the BBC, according to Wikipedia.

But it sounds like it is more likely to be a name than anything else.

There is also:
• a blogger in Glasgow called Semprini
• an entry at everything2 for Semprini

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