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"Old Bits of Hoof" and Apely Bootleggers
Feb. 20th, 2006 06:26 pmYesterday we had a pot roast and invited Llew over for a nosh. Today Aunt Tudi is feeding the cats beef fat. I keep telling her that cats don't eat cow, they're too big. All cats can do with cows is nibble at their hooves and get kicked in the head for their trouble. When I told Aunt Tudi this, I realised that I can't say "hoof" without emulating the way Patsy Stone says it in the "Morroco" episode of Absolutely Fabulous. Edina is telling Saffy that the Moors didn't have toilet paper before the more "civilised" Brits came to enlighten them. She asked Saffy: "Do you know what they used before we came?" (that's paraphrased....I may be incorrect in the quote) And then Patsy piped up and said: "Old bits of hoof." That's pronounced hooooof, long "o," not huhff. Ever since, I say hoooooof, long "o."
It's like the word "speed." I have to say it with a French accent, like "speeeedddddddd," thanks to Eddie Izzard.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clumsycake is in the same boat. We get together and talk about the movie Speed and we sound like a couple of Parisian whores.
In other news,das_prompt was good enough to announce the confirmation of the existence of bootlegging primates. This reminds me of a show I saw back in the late 70s. It was a National Geographic show on PBS (pre-Cable for you whippersnappers) about the inhabitants of the African Savannah. During the wet and fertile season, all the animals (both predator and prey) would gather at the water hole to enjoy having water. The trees around the water hole would have fruit that had fermented on the branch. All the herbivores and omnivores would partake of this fruit and have a drunken party while the carnivores would roll around in the water and essentially laugh at them all. I'm not lying. I clearly remember seeing inebriated giraffes and monkeys yucking it up together. If there'd been a tattoo parlour around, these critters would have gotten inked. All in all, it was a feelgood moment for all the animals, and the only time they all got along before going back to killing, being killed, and feuding over water rights. Bornean apes apparently don't have to worry about waiting until the right season when the fruit will ferment in the trees. They make their own brew and raise their own roofs.
It's like the word "speed." I have to say it with a French accent, like "speeeedddddddd," thanks to Eddie Izzard.
clumsycake is in the same boat. We get together and talk about the movie Speed and we sound like a couple of Parisian whores.In other news,
das_prompt was good enough to announce the confirmation of the existence of bootlegging primates. This reminds me of a show I saw back in the late 70s. It was a National Geographic show on PBS (pre-Cable for you whippersnappers) about the inhabitants of the African Savannah. During the wet and fertile season, all the animals (both predator and prey) would gather at the water hole to enjoy having water. The trees around the water hole would have fruit that had fermented on the branch. All the herbivores and omnivores would partake of this fruit and have a drunken party while the carnivores would roll around in the water and essentially laugh at them all. I'm not lying. I clearly remember seeing inebriated giraffes and monkeys yucking it up together. If there'd been a tattoo parlour around, these critters would have gotten inked. All in all, it was a feelgood moment for all the animals, and the only time they all got along before going back to killing, being killed, and feuding over water rights. Bornean apes apparently don't have to worry about waiting until the right season when the fruit will ferment in the trees. They make their own brew and raise their own roofs.
