I have to push the pram a lot?
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I have to push the pram a lot?
"I have to push the pram a lot."
It's from Monty Python the Holy Grail.
What does it mean?
It's from Monty Python the Holy Grail.
What does it mean?
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I always assumed it referred to emasculation, with regard to stereotypical gender roles: He's left pushing the pram, ie looking after the children, instead of his wife.
And it's probably just there because it rhymes.
Edit: And if you Americans don't call it a pram I have no idea what the word is you'd use.
And it's probably just there because it rhymes.
Edit: And if you Americans don't call it a pram I have no idea what the word is you'd use.
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"Pram" is British English for a stroller or baby carriage. The implication is either that the knight singing this line has to care for youngling frequently...or that the knights in general are a lusty and fertile lot.
Or perhaps it is just a forced rhyme for Camelot...
Or perhaps it is just a forced rhyme for Camelot...
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baby buggy / baby carriage.I'm Murrin wrote:I always took "stroller" as strictly the word for pushchair, and not pram. The distinction being that a pushchair/stroller is for older infants sitting upright. Pram is only really used for the ones where the baby is lying down.
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Just watched it tonight.
My kids first time seeing it.
They laughed the loudest at scenes I didn't expect.
Like Lancelot running....and running.....and running.....and then slaughtering the wedding party.
They got it, they got the comedy of the setup not just the mayhem he was doing.
I was so proud of them!
Just watched it tonight.
My kids first time seeing it.
They laughed the loudest at scenes I didn't expect.
Like Lancelot running....and running.....and running.....and then slaughtering the wedding party.
They got it, they got the comedy of the setup not just the mayhem he was doing.
I was so proud of them!
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Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.
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To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,aliantha wrote:Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
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Sarge, my kids used to have to say that one as a warm-up in chorus class.
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Back to G&S again? Mikado!!null wrote:To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,aliantha wrote:Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
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Heh...it's one of the set I use when teaching voice, but it's just a limbering up, not really difficult.aliantha wrote:Sarge, my kids used to have to say that one as a warm-up in chorus class.
The ones that cause folk real trouble, are:
"The big black bug bled blue-black blood, but the other black bug bled blue."
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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