I have to push the pram a lot?

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:15 pm

"I have to push the pram a lot."
It's from Monty Python the Holy Grail.
What does it mean?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:31 pm

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.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:36 pm

"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...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:39 pm

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.

Website · Post by **Iolanthe** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:52 pm

It is actually a perambulator - perambulate being to walk, but it's reduced to pram. Rhymes with "Spamalot"! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:15 am

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.

baby buggy / baby carriage.

Post by **Vader** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:48 am

He's like a rabbit - no other hobby than playing a game of hide the salami. The end result: a zillion of kids. So he's busy pushing the baby buggy all the time.

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:12 am

But Vader, I thought that part was in Meaning of Life:

Post by **Vader** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:16 am

I didn't say he already was a Roman Catholic before he was born.

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:22 am

Thanks everyone!!

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!

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:45 am

I always just assumed it was so they could rhyme it.

--A

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:55 am

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJoM7V54T-c

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:59 am

Poetry at its finest.

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:20 am

Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.

Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:08 am

aliantha wrote:
Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.
Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!

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!
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!

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:23 am

Do your worst...

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:49 am

Sarge, my kids used to have to say that one as a warm-up in chorus class.

Website · Post by **Iolanthe** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:31 am

null wrote:
aliantha wrote:
Linna Heartlistener wrote:baby buggy / baby carriage.
Hence the tongue twister: rubber baby buggy bumpers. Good luck!
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!
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!

Back to G&S again? Mikado!!

Post by **Vraith** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:53 pm

aliantha wrote:Sarge, my kids used to have to say that one as a warm-up in chorus class.

Heh...it's one of the set I use when teaching voice, but it's just a limbering up, not really difficult.

The ones that cause folk real trouble, are:

"The big black bug bled blue-black blood, but the other black bug bled blue."

"He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:10 pm

Let's try some Finnish ones.

Aamunsarastuksessa katsastusmies uurasti esteratsastusharrastuksessansa.

Appilan pappilan apupapin papupata pankolla kiehuu ja kuohuu. Pappilan paksuposkinen piski pisti paksun papukeiton poskeensa.

Epäjärjestelmällistämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän

- Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon!
- Koko kokkoko?
- Koko kokko.

Mun mummoni muni mun mammani, mun mammani muni mun.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

I have to push the pram a lot?

I have to push the pram a lot?