Friday, December 24, 2010

not so much as a "kiss my foot" or "have an apple"

Hey guys! It's Christmas Eve! I am in my pajamas and watching White Christmas for probably the seventh time, while simultaneously looking it up on imdb. For instance, did you know that Danny Kaye wasn't even supposed to be IN it? And that Vera Ellen doesn't actually sing any of her own songs? And that her waist was 21 INCHES??????????? And that part where Bob and Phil dance the ladies' dance in the ladies' costumes wasn't in the script, but Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye were fooling around on the set and did that for fun and they stuck it in the movie because it was awesome? I am a font of information. This brings to mind this internet comic that I saw which is amazing and completely appropriate for this situation, where the heading is "BEFORE THE INTERNET," and there are two people sitting on a couch. One person says, "Oh, no! I just thought of something I wanted to know more about!" and the other person says, "I'm so sorry." I wish I could find it for you. It is so perfectly suited.

The family went to the Christmas Eve service at church, and I give it an A+ for music and message, but a D- for punctuation on the power point slides. Every single slide was missing some sort of valuable punctuation, which distracted me because it occurred to me that without punctuation the songs either make no sense, or mean something different. For example, there's the old, "Hark the herald angel sing," which should be "Hark, the herald angel sing!" otherwise you think that Hark is the name of a herald angel. Also, whereas I always see is as

What Child is this who laid to rest
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?

it should be "who, laid to rest on Mary's lap, is sleeping." And "bring Him incense COMMA gold COMMA and myrrh," but I think that is a relatively new grammar rule.

(Actually, you probably don't care about any of that. Sorry. But I am the girl who owns a poster about when to use a semi-colon, and also about how to use apostrophes.)

8 comments:

  1. what does "what does kiss my foot or have an apple" mean?!!?!?!?

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    1. It's a quote from the greatest Christmas movie ever! White Christmas! A movie I have watched at least once every Christmas for almost 50 years!

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  2. what does "what does kiss my foot or have an apple" mean?!!?!?!?

    Can someone please tell me too!

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    1. I was also curious & here's what I found:
      It can either be a literal expression or it can also be a metaphor for live a little.

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  3. "Kiss my foot" was an expression my mother used to say all the time. She was about the same age as the actors. It was the polite way to say to kiss her derrière. It fits the the context of the movie, too. Plans are being made and Bing's character is leaving without informing the other guy that he is. I think the "have an apple" is the flip side of the statement, an offering of a kind gesture. So the guy is telling him hey you were going to leave without telling me to kiss off or without a kind word either

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  4. Just fyi, the commas in music exist entirely to indicate where you are supposed to pause and take a breath. They have no relation to grammar.
    Thats why so many songs are written very badly from a grammar perspective.

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    1. FYI, commas in lyrics is grammar. Rests in a musical score indicates when to pause, rest, or take a breath.

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  5. Just fyi, the commas in music are completely unrelated to grammar. They are there only to indicate where the singer should pause and take a short breath.
    Thats why so many songs are written very badly from a grammatical perspective.

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