Posted By: tozer
Re: Well... that was embarrassing...
It's clear that impposter needs to work on his classical education and brush up his Shakespeare
From Othello:
IAGO -- Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise,
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Alas, poor Senator! I knew him, tozer. Oops. Thanks for the reference. Back in high school, a bunch of used to say "Zounds!" and even "Forsooth!" But I don't remember using "tupping" in high school. I think we used schtupping, from non-Shakespearean classics.
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But I still don't get the pun, if there was supposed to be one.
Chicken cacciatore - chicken catch a Tory.
Leaning tower of Pizza - leaning tower of Pisa.
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Catharine Parr, Henry’s fifth wife, is up against the wall for her execution, facing a firing line aiming golf clubs. Sherman naturally asks about her and Mr. Peabody explains.
Sherman: “But the guards are aiming at her with golf clubs?”
Mr. Peabody: “How else would you shoot Parr?”
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After escaping Robespierre at the start of the Reign of Terror, Mr. Peabody remarks on how the French Revolution could have been prevented.
Mr. Peabody: And think, Marie Antoinette could have avoided the whole revolution if she simply issued an edict to distribute bread to the poor. But then she couldn’t have her dessert.
Sherman: But why, Mr. Peabody.
Mr. Peabody: Because, Sherman, you can’t have your cake and edict, too.
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"Tup a Greek"? Tuppagreek. Tuppakaka (a Swedish cake). Tip a Greek? Tap a Greek? I don't get it!