I'm not eatin' that

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  • Bum Baba

    Steamed dumpings
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Thank you for sharing that, Cameron - you do realise some of us might be reading this while eating our supper, don't you? :grimace:
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Thank you for sharing that, Cameron - you do realise some of us might be reading this while eating our supper, don't you? :grimace:

    Oops! I thought the premise was to be unwholesome, but bon appétit :lol:

  • Shepherds Pee
  • Having just pulled some oat cakes out of the oven,

    Bat cakes
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Having just pulled some oat cakes out of the oven,

    Bat cakes

    Bring served for dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner?

    Oh, is that my coat?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It most certainly is! :mrgreen:
  • Sorry, I’m afraid the joke is lost on me. :neutral:
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Sorry, I’m afraid the joke is lost on me. :neutral:

    It's a musical reference.
  • Spitted Dick
  • stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Sorry, I’m afraid the joke is lost on me. :neutral:

    It's a musical reference.
    To?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited January 2024
    @Nick Tamen

    Batman
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited January 2024
    stetson wrote: »
    @Nick Tamen

    Batman
    Huh. I had to do some googling. I’m a child of the 60s, and I grew up on that show. I had all kinds of things related to that show (including a sweet utility belt). My late 60s Batman bank still sits on my dresser. (When I was working, it was in my office.).

    I’ve read books on that show. I quote that show with regularity. I introduced my kids to that show, and I even still watch it on Saturday mornings while I eat breakfast. And my use of “bat cakes” certainly made me think of it.

    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head. TBH, I was trying to make a “Bat Out of Hell,” Rocky Horror Meatloaf-for-supper connection.

    You learn something new every day on the Ship.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited January 2024
    @Nick Tamen

    For the record, I had never heard "dinner dinner dinner etc" associated with that music either, so I don't know if the audial pun predates this thread.

    Punch lines don't always click for me, either, though my friends do tell me I have a knack for fitting new words to old music.

    A similar joke to the Batman one goes...

    Q: Where does the Lone Ranger take his garbage?

    To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head.

    It was a staple joke in Christmas Crackers in my youth.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head.

    It was a staple joke in Christmas Crackers in my youth.
    A Pond Difference, maybe?

    And yes, @stetson, that Lone Ranger joke is very familiar.

  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head.

    It was a staple joke in Christmas Crackers in my youth.

    What was the set-up question for the punch-line?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited January 2024
    Just thought I'd repost this entry, in case it got lost in our back-and-forth about the Batman joke...
    Spitted Dick
  • Thanks. I'll go back to my breakfast now of roached eggs.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    rump teak
  • Rump Steam
    with
    French Flies

    followed by

    Plum Padding
    with
    Randy Butter
  • sweat potatoes
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited January 2024
    sham sandwich

    Italian pazza [in Italian: 'mad', female form]
  • Bobble and squeak
  • Lover and onions
  • Bobble and squeak

    No idea what this is. Pond difference?
  • BroJames wrote: »
    I got that part, but what I couldn’t tell was why changing it to bobble and squeak made it something no one would want to eat. I assumed “bobble” must have a meaning elsewhere it doesn’t have here.

  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Ah. You’ve got me there
  • I've never heard of it, but it does sound good. I'll have to try it some time. I have, however, heard of bangers and mesh.
  • I have, however, heard of bangers and mesh.
    :lol:

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    While we're on such things,

    Toad in the mole
  • Oh, I was just going to say that. You Brits put such appetizing things on your table. Like gushy peas.

    But back in the good old USA . . . chicken poo pie.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    I wonder if beverages are included, @mousethief?

    If yes, I'd have (or rather, not): spamhetti with red wane, and a glass of Chimpagne
  • For those who like Chinese . . . mu shu porn with fried lice.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    BroJames wrote: »
    I got that part, but what I couldn’t tell was why changing it to bobble and squeak made it something no one would want to eat. I assumed “bobble” must have a meaning elsewhere it doesn’t have here.

    Think in terms of a bobble hat. I wish I'd thought of saying:

    Rubble and squeak!
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    BroJames wrote: »
    I got that part, but what I couldn’t tell was why changing it to bobble and squeak made it something no one would want to eat. I assumed “bobble” must have a meaning elsewhere it doesn’t have here.

    Think in terms of a bobble hat.
    I’m afraid I had to google “bobble hat.” In my corner of the Anglosphere, we call those “toboggans.” I know other names, but “bobble hat” is a new one for me.

    Shipmates once again contribute to my education. :grin:

  • I was astonished that the dinner dinner dinner dinner Batman wasn’t a thing in the USA. As a child of the ‘90’s in the U.K. I got the reference straight away. Pond differences are bizarre at times.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited January 2024
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    ... I’m afraid I had to google “bobble hat.” In my corner of the Anglosphere, we call those “toboggans.”
    If your corner of the Anglosphere is where I think it is, I suspect you don't have much call for bobble hats ... :mrgreen:

    Or toboggans for that matter.

    [tangent]
    In my corner of the Anglosphere, they're called "toories".
    [/tangent]
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited January 2024
    Piglet wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    ... I’m afraid I had to google “bobble hat.” In my corner of the Anglosphere, we call those “toboggans.”
    If your corner of the Anglosphere is where I think it is, I suspect you don't have much call for bobble hats ... :mrgreen:

    Or toboggans for that matter.

    [tangent]
    In my corner of the Anglosphere, they're called "toories".
    [/tangent]
    Oh, to the contrary. We have enough winter here—maybe not Canadian-style cold, but quite cold enough—that toboggans are very common.

    “Torries” is a new one for me too. :lol:

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Toories. :smiley:

    I've no idea of the etymology - maybe from "tower", which would sometimes be pronounced like "tour" in Orkney.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    I’m afraid I had to google “bobble hat.” In my corner of the Anglosphere, we call those “toboggans.” I know other names, but “bobble hat” is a new one for me.

    Because you might wear such a garment to slide down a hill on a toboggan?
  • stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head.

    It was a staple joke in Christmas Crackers in my youth.

    What was the set-up question for the punch-line?

    Probably something like "How does Bruce Wayne's mum call him in for the evening meal?"
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Toories. :smiley:

    I've no idea of the etymology - maybe from "tower", which would sometimes be pronounced like "tour" in Orkney.
    Oops! I’ll blame it on auto-correct.

    I was astonished that the dinner dinner dinner dinner Batman wasn’t a thing in the USA. As a child of the ‘90’s in the U.K. I got the reference straight away. Pond differences are bizarre at times.
    The “Batman” theme was always “na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na” in my experience. “Dinner” wouldn’t have sounded at all right.

    stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    But I’ve never heard “dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner” in reference to the theme song, at least not that I can recall, so the connection went straight over my head.

    It was a staple joke in Christmas Crackers in my youth.

    What was the set-up question for the punch-line?

    Probably something like "How does Bruce Wayne's mum call him in for the evening meal?"
    Which raises a whole ‘nother Pond Difference, and regional difference (at least on this side of The Pond)—in my corner of the world, dinner was more often the midday meal rather than the evening meal, and was not something had every day.

  • I've heard breakfast > dinner > supper but it's much more common to hear breakfast > lunch > dinner.

    Meanwhile . . . French flies
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    With us it tends to be breakfast, lunch, tea. Dinner is something we go out to, or invite people in for. A bit more formal, and a bit later than tea.
  • I've heard breakfast > dinner > supper but it's much more common to hear breakfast > lunch > dinner.
    Here it’s traditionally breakfast > lunch > supper, with “dinner” being used for the main/biggest meal of the day, particularly a more substantial meal than usual, which, at least in days past, was more likely to be lunch. So, Sunday dinner (lunch), Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner (always lunch in my family), but birthday dinner (probably supper, but maybe not).

    But yes, it’s going off topic. So,

    Porn pudding

  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Is that the same basic ingredient as cop porn*?

    (*With an apologetic nod to the Revd Dr W A Spooner.)
  • BroJames wrote: »
    Is that the same basic ingredient as cop porn*?

    (*With an apologetic nod to the Revd Dr W A Spooner.)
    Indeed!

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    From Australia: mushroo soup
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