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Thread #94034 Message #2609386
Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Apr-09 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky
Subject: RE: Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky
The quote from McDougal reminds me of a parallel smart-alecky reply:"What's your name?" – "Puddentain. [However you spell it.] Ask me again, I'll tell you the same."
I learned that from a "Little Rascals/Our Gang" comedy that was shown on TV when I was a kid in the 1950s. (Who said it? Stymie?)
– but it goes back at least to –
From The Beulah Spa (a play) by Charles Dance (London: John Miller, 1833):MAG. ... What is her name?
HEC. Pudding and tame—if you ask me again I shall tell you the same.
(Sorry for the thread creep.)