I was on the bus one time, coming from Poo-Bah [Record Shop].
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As the article correctly noted, it is Poo-Bah Records, not Pooh-Bah Records.
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The actors who play Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte in the prologue remain recognizably British as they take on the roles of Pish-Tush, Ko-Ko and Poo-Bah.
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His former students and colleagues created a Robert H. Roy Fund in his honor in 1991 for graduate students. Roy published a book, Administrative Process, which was used widely in many colleges. He also wrote Bragolections -- The career Adventures of a Poo- Bah—available at Johns Hopkins Library and a prized possession of many of his friends. Poo-Bah was a name given by his English teacher at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
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"Whence Poo-Bah", GASBAG, vol. 24, no. 3, issue 186, January/February 1993, p. 28. Pooh-Bah is mentioned in P. G. Wodehouse's novel Something Fresh and in other, often political, contexts.
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Poo-bah (right), in the comic opera The Mikado, holds many grand titles including First Lord of the Treasury, Master of the Buckhounds, Groom of the Backstairs and Lord High Everything Else. Job title inflation is the increasing number and size of grandiose job titles in corporations and organisations.
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Gregory Shorter Jr. (December 11, 1978 – July 29, 2019), better known by his stage name Ras G, was an American record producer and DJ from Los Angeles, California. He was a co-founder of the record label Poo-Bah Records and was also associated with Brainfeeder. He released 24 albums and mixtapes since his debut in 2008.
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Statue in Winnipeg of Harry Colebourn and Winnie In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": American writer William Safire surmised that the Milnes' invention of the name "Winnie the Pooh" may have also been influenced by the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885).Safire, William. 1993. "Whence Poo-Bah." GASBAG 24(3) issue 186:28–28.
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In 2003, he sang the role of Lorenzo (I Capuletti ed I Montecchi) conducted by Sir Richard Bonynge. This appearance was one amongst many in major roles for English National Opera, which include Don Basilio in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore; Somnus in Handel's Semele; Quince in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Collatinus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Poo-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado; Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte; Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro); Sacristan in Puccini's Tosca; Pistol in Verdi's Falstaff and Ribbing in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
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Though only 51 years old and having a magnificent physique, Ralston suffered from poor health and was forced to stand down due to heart problems during tours of North Queensland and New Zealand. He traveled with the company to Perth and played, to great effect, The Grand Inquisitor in The Gondoliers, The Sergeant in Trial by Jury and Poo Bah in The Mikado and was scheduled for the company's production of Lilac Time, but was unable to take his place on stage. He died in a private hospital in Perth and was buried in this city.
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He told the committee that people in his role could not work Communist propaganda into scripts without it being noticed by film producers and studio executives. He painted a particularly negative portrait of writer John Howard Lawson as the "grand Poo- Bah of the Communist movement" who "speaks with the voice of Stalin and the bells of the Kremlin." Berkeley was represented by Edward Bennett Williams, who had close ties to many enthusiasts of the anti-Communist campaign of the McCarthy era. Following his testimony, Berkeley became a member of an organization formed to expose Communist influence in the entertainment industry, the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA).
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