“Snow snakes.” [for snow flakes]
“Friends, Romans, and
countrymen, lend me your ears … for I am deaf.”
“Eee-mediately!” [do it now]
“Fall on your knees and get
your pimples squeezed.”
“Right quick fast in a
hurry.” [hustle it up]
“Slowly I turn … step by
step … inch by inch …” [playful menace, from an old vaudville sketch]
“I want a naked froggie for
my zoo!” [playful menace, to get kids to dress after a bath]
“Thank you, music lovers!” [this was a 1960 record by Spike Milligan; relevant?]
“Oink?”
“Flyswater” [for icewater]
“Hook ‘em!” [get outta here]
“Cut a trail!” [make tracks, hurry up]
More Babelese, mostly from Mom and Pop. There were some bits from songs and comedy routines, but a lot of it was to get a sluggish herd of reluctant kids moving. Even the 'playful menace' was amusing, and oh so preferable to actual threats of violence. I think we have an old recording of Pop giving the 'Friends, Romans, and countrymen' joke (to test our new tape recorder); at least I know we had.
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