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In the Guys and Dolls musical the Fugue for Tinhorns has a line -And just a minute boys I've got the feed box noise- What is feed box noise?
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From practical machinist on the net (www. practicalmachinist.com/vb/cincinnati-milacron...) Who writes: You crank on that feed selector and it turns some gears connected to some cams that push and pull on levers in the feed box and shifter forks on the other end move ...
Ergo - This might relate to the feeding of the horses from a long box, and the noise from the machine, AND the guys feeding the horses, and the jockeys - scuttlebutt.
Now: If you look at the lyrics - below, And you look at the scene in the muscial, it suggests that there is a odds/handicapper page [called or culled, from the Telegraph] re: the ponies. indeed, if I remember, Rusty yanks one of them off the wire hanging in front of the newspaper stand . . . (?)
'Rusty Weighs in and Intones
"But look at Epitaph, he wins it by a half
According to this here in the Telegraph
Big Threat - Big Threat This guy calls the horse Big Threat
If he calls the horse "Big Threat", Big Threat, Big Threat.
"And just a minute Boys,
I've got the feed box noise
It says the great-grandfather was Equipoise
Shows class, shows class [GREAT LINE, COMING FROM A TINHORNS - as in Fugue for Tinhorns]
This guy says the horse shows class.
Shows class, Shows class
(In contrast to, and while Nicely keeps singing re: Paul Revere - Can do can do can do and Benny re: Valentine - has chance has chance has chance)
"So make it Epitaph, he wins it by a half
According to this here in the Telegraph [name for the handicapper page, rhymes with]
Epitaph! I got the horse right here
Well so I think, but ask Stephen, he would know.
(Anyhow, the whole thing is a paean to stochastic variables (Chanciness: Exquisite sensitivity to initial conditions: as in, it all depends if his foot is all right (Paul Revere (OF COURSE, that HORSE), and if it rained last night (as Nicely looks to heaven); and what the Jockey's brother said to Benny (as he clutches his heart) and, and . . . this bring us full circle to
Signal to NOISE (feed box noise; and that is all there really is, no? Feed box noise from bi pedals - No, Now I had better stop.
One last note: I do not think Runyon would argue with that, nor do I think he would want to be bothered.
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