Don't Say That When I Have My Mouth Full

[elfs]

This joke won't make any sense unless you grew up somewhere between 1976 and 1984.

Getting Kouryou-chan to eat is always something of a struggle. Friday evening we were around the dinner table, and the meal was a delicious saute'd chicken and onions with cous-cous and quick-steamed broccoli. Kouryou-chan was being especially persnickety about the chicken and Omaha started to tell her, "You have to eat the chicken. You have to have protein. You've got to eat some of the meat." Omaha got up to go back into the kitchen for something and as she did so she muttered, "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

I had a mouthful of food right then, and was so sideswiped by her comment I damn near choked to death.

Comments

[littleone66.livejournal.com]

I want it and I want it NOOOWWWW!

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, some of us old farts remember when we were told that by our parents (and teachers if we were unlucky enough to go to boarding school).

Where do you think Rog. got it?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hey, I went to boarding school. I guess I'm not old enough for that particular refrain, through. (Of course, being on the swim team and burning 5,000 calories a day, I didn't have that problem, either: I ate everything, and my neighbor's everything too, if I had a chance.)

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

I'm a veteran of English Prep and Public schools: 1959 - 1967. And the food was every bit as bad as the stereotypes.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Ah, but did she do the accent?

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

My step-brother used to swear up and down that that voice was based on one of his teachers (a certain "Az" MacFarlane of The Perse School for Boys, Cambridge).

[grum]

Well, I didn't come of age to that soundtrack until 1992, but I may belong to an abnormal subset as Tcepsa (1 year younger than me) didn't place it at all, and instead thought that it was a dirty joke.

[kyriani.livejournal.com]

I <3 you two! :D

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

(how'd you come up with 1984?)

I remember hearing a co-worker dial our London office on speakerphone. I knew it was London because it had that very distinctive ringback tone. It went on for a bit; we'd called too late in the day. Without even thinking I half-muttered, "Hello, this is the United States calling, are we reaching?"

I was not the only one in the cube farm who went down that rabbit hole.

(Which is doubly ironic that I said it that way, 'cause, well, Alice is a Brit too. :)

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's worth noting that since Pink Floyd is generally considered to be among the classics, they're *still* making new fans of teenagers to this day.

But she would have earned extra bonus points if she had used that same fractured sanity tone of voice. ;)

[cadetstar.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even born until 1983, but I got it. That may have something to do with the class above mine in high school using that as their unofficial class song.

-Michael

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

I graduated from high school 6 years before you open your window there, but I got it instantly (despite not being a big fan of The Roger Waters Meltdown Album)

the world must be converging

[(Anonymous)]

We spent the weekend after president's day in a ski condo with my brother and his two kids (and our two kids), and they were having the exact same conversation with their 4-year old ("you need some protein, you need to eat some chicken, if you don't eat some you can't watch your Thomas video"). My husband had the exact same response as Omaha-- fortunately, my mouth was empty.

(Dunno how you make a logical connection between Thomas and chicken, other than "I have power over what you do...")

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[stephaniesmom.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I've been known to use that on my 5 year old...