While the cats are away, the mice will play

[DFW]

While I was working in NYC the first week of this month, my wife (with the bigger handbag) went out to the Botanical Gardens with my sister. It looks like they had a better time than I did!

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'd say they did, my dear DFW!

At least they're not hiding it from you!

[pinboy3niner]

2. For DFW it was a bridge too far. :) nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Hahahahahaha!

Well played my dear pinboy! Well played!

[DFW]

4. Maybe, but

It might have been over troubled water anyway........

[DFW]

5. No, they prefer to rub it in my face instead

My wife has this hidden cruel streak she shows only to me, flies and mosquitoes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I am sorry!

She should not treat you the way she treats flies and mosquitoes!

[DFW]

9. Well, to put it in perspective

She does make up for it 99.99% of the time.

[catnhatnh]

6. Why am I hearing

the Colonel Bogey March?

[DFW]

8. You'll need to help me out there

We dumb Murkens who live abroad--some of us have no clue what that is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. It's a song from the movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Not sure of the spelling!

Thanks to pinboy, now I'm sure of the spelling!

[pinboy3niner]

11. As soon as I saw catnhatnh's post I was hearing the whistling

And it's Kwai.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I heard the whistling too!

Thanks!

[DFW]

14. Or, as Bobby Kennedy used to say

I think of things that never were and ask Kwai not?

[DFW]

13. Ah, I get it. Never knew the name

We used to sing that in junior high, with a text that would probably get me hidden as inappropriate, although the jurors would be laughing themselves silly even as they did it.

[kath]

22. Here is an interesting essay on various lyrics to that tune that have sprung up in the hundred years

since it was written:
https://books.google.com/books?id=rde9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=comet+advertising+jingle&source=bl&ots=T7hneLQXUX&sig=CI-ebIOYjVkTGvAcncdmGd2T61k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif1sCV8LPKAhUK_WMKHWjZASQQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=comet%20advertising%20jingle&f=false

i only knew the "Comet, it makes you vomit" version as a kid. Suspect you may be referring to the "Hitler has only got one ball" or "Herman, look what you've done to me" variations.

[DFW]

23. It was the Hitler one that I heard

..."has only one big ball" etc etc

[catnhatnh]

15. Hey Pinboy

Are you gonna let this damn near unimurican get in the last pun???

[DFW]

18. Hey, just a cotton-pickin' minute there

I may live over the ocean and across the sea, but I'm as Murken as the rest of y'all. I can just say so in 9 languages, that's all!

[pinboy3niner]

21. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7540107

[grasswire]

16. off topic, DFW...

...but do you spend any time in Prague?

[DFW]

17. We sometimes run down there for the weekend

It's about a 75 minute flight from Düsseldorf. One of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

[grasswire]

19. I'm going to PM you about your experience there, if you don't mind. nt

[DFW]

20. We loved it! Go ahead

A few years ago, I guided Howard Dean and his daughter in real time on his Blackberry through the city center to some of our favorite sights and places to eat.