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03 Aug 09 - 05:18 PM (#2693045) Subject: What's Bulgine Pie? From: CET I was looking up the meaning of "bulgine" today, and found a reference on Wikipedia stating that "bulgine" is a derisive term for a nautical steam engine or a dockside locomotive. So what's a "bulgine pie"? |
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03 Aug 09 - 05:22 PM (#2693048) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Charley Noble CET- In this case the comical reference may be to an actual bull functioning as an "engine" in which case "bullgine pie" would be "bullshit." Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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03 Aug 09 - 05:29 PM (#2693054) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Q (Frank Staplin) A previous thread asked the same question. Charley's answer is as good as any. |
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03 Aug 09 - 05:35 PM (#2693057) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Charley Noble Q- Thanks for your support on this urgent and ungulate question. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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03 Aug 09 - 06:19 PM (#2693091) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: GUEST,leeneia It's probably a typo for 'bulging pie,' one filled to the max. |
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03 Aug 09 - 06:27 PM (#2693095) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Naow thet's a gnu one. |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:08 AM (#2693510) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Desert Dancer Context?? |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:32 AM (#2693525) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Charley Noble Good question. How was the phrase "bulgine pie" used? In a Google search I had run across the term "bulgine" in some 19th century book describing a comic episode where some gentleman was riding a bull and his friends described it as a "bulgine." But that was a play on words of a play on words. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:41 AM (#2693533) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Gibb Sahib The perfect desert after a nice knuckle sandwich. It's similar to a Scooter Pie, only heavier. Hoist 'er high, and maybe we'll get one! |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:43 AM (#2693535) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Gibb Sahib *dessert |
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04 Aug 09 - 11:45 AM (#2693536) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Reinhard It's from the chorus of "A-Rollin' Down the River' as printed in Stan Hugill's "Shanties from the Seven Seas': Oh, a pumpkin pudden an a bulgine pie, A pumpkin pudden an' a bulgine pie, A pumpkin pudden an' a bulgine pie, Aboard the Arabella! He explains "bulgine" as American slang name for a railway engine but doesn't explain the bulgine pie. |
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04 Aug 09 - 01:03 PM (#2693590) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Marc Bernier It scans well in the line. It doesn't need to mean anything. |
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04 Aug 09 - 03:54 PM (#2693734) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Charley Noble Marc- "It scans well in the line. It doesn't need to mean anything." But the challenge! Charley Noble |
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04 Aug 09 - 04:21 PM (#2693747) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Marc Bernier I Know Charlie, but don't we all have a song or two we like to sing, that really doesn't make sense if you start thinking about it. |
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04 Aug 09 - 04:35 PM (#2693755) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: curmudgeon If you think that doesn't make sense, try the other refrain in the same song: Rollin' down, rollin' down, Rollin' down the river. Rollin' down, rollin' down, Said the bucko mate to the greaser's wife. |
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04 Aug 09 - 04:53 PM (#2693762) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Before he gave up farming and went to sea, the sailor-chanteyman who first used it sang at Methodist camp meetings. He liked the song "Methodist Pie" but that had one too many syllables for the chantey, so he coined 'bulgine pie'. |
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04 Aug 09 - 05:33 PM (#2693791) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Amos It's the mouthful of grease, lub oil, steel bits and rust you are likely to taste after disassembling a bulgine type donkey engine and putting it all back together again, obviously! A |
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04 Aug 09 - 06:21 PM (#2693843) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Q (Frank Staplin) I remember those engines from my family's mining days. The smell was horrible. Work around one, and one's body, hair, and clothes stank, and the taste lingered in one's mouth for a long time. The miners cut the taste with whiskey, but I was too young and had to make do with Delaware Punch. |
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04 Aug 09 - 09:29 PM (#2693919) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Charley Noble These are excellent notes and no doubt will be harvested with glee by future ethnomusicologists. Marc- "Bulgine pie" strikes me as a joke rather than nonsense and it's up to us to figure out its cultural reference. I still prefer BS (not personally) but I also like Amos' suggestion. Charley Noble |
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05 Aug 09 - 08:55 AM (#2694085) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Marc Bernier Actually Charlie, I always thought it meant BullShit also. |
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05 Aug 09 - 08:59 AM (#2694086) Subject: RE: What's Bulgine Pie? From: Marc Bernier I pressed submit to soon. I had sung this chantey for awhile before I ever saw it it print. I thought the line was Bumkin pudding and Bulgine pie. I still sing it that way, though it's not a chantey I use very often. |