In one of her routines she talked about having to babysit, and to entertain the kids told them that her head came off. The (perhaps too) credulous children quizzed her about the manner in which her head came off, etc.
At Disclave one year, this was seized upon. A friend posed the question "Yes, but what does your head do after it comes off?" Various permutations followed, including:
My head comes off and it's full of candy.
A few years later, this was translated into Swedish by another friend as:
Mitt huvud trillar av och det är fullt av godis.
Imagine my shock and surprise when I found this very phrase -- a phrase which I thought for sure had no currency outside a very small circle of friends from college -- in Omniglot.com (look under 'Swedish').
When I read this, my head came off.
And the gummy bears spilled out endlessly until it was reattached.
ReplyDeleteI will refrain from commenting on the size of said head.
ReplyDeleteJust to pull the string tighter and close the loop more, I should mention that Paula babysat for one of Tim McInerney's childhood friends, Fargas?
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