Re: Eat me!, Eat my shorts!

jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jess Askin wrote:
>> jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Jess Askin wrote:
>>>> Prai Jei wrote:
>>>>> Holger Freese (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in
>>>>> message <3pkrbsFapl6oU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And what about "Eat me!" ? It must have been around
>>>>>> much longer. When is it used?
>>>>>
>>>>> It appears on the little cake in "Alice in Wonderland".
>>>>>
>>>>> Here in the UK (at least) it is the trade name of a brand of
>>>>> dates.
>>>>>
>>>>> In both instances the words are to be taken literally. Eating the
>>>>> cake caused Alice to increase (or was it decrease?) in size.
>>>>
>>>> It depends. One pill makes you larger, and the other makes you
>>>> small.
>>>
>>> Don't look, Laura.
>>>
>>> The Web seems to think it's "One pill makes you larger, and one pill
>>> makes you small."
>>
>> It's entirely possible I never heard it correctly in the first
>> place, for reasons I'd rather not go into.
>
> Oh, come on. It won't even keep you from being elected president.
>
>>> On the other hand, it thinks it's "the Red Queen's
>>> off with her head." There's a "with" in there?
>>
>> They need a syllable for that note, and anyway it's a nice pun.
>
> My problem is that I didn't think there was a note there. Maybe the
> problem is that I've never heard the song on anything better than a
> car radio.

It's not you, it's Grace. She enunciates more clearly than most rock
singers, but she ain't perfect.


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