Robin: Prepare yourself for an eggspeditious defeat! Batman: Very apt, Robin. Robin: Oh. Glad you liked it. Althouse: I hate egg salad. Batman: Who asked you Catwoman? Althouse: I'm not Catwoman. I'm from Wisconsin. Robin: Who asked you Cheesewoman? (Batman, 1966)
Robin: "Ghoti" is "fish"? I thought that was a guinea gangster. Batman: See here. English phonetics. GH becomes F, as in "tough" or "laugh". O becomes I as in "women". TI becomes SH as in "ration" or the word "nation". Robin: Holy semantics, Batman. You never cease to amaze me! Batman: No time for compliments, Robin. We must thwart some criminals. To the Batmobile Robin: What is a criminal twat Batman? Batman: You are too young to understand Robin. No be a good ward and slide down the Bat Pole. And don’t mention it to the social worker. (Batman, An Egg Grows in Gotham. Season2 episode 13)
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Kucinich! I wondered what happened to him...
Robin: Prepare yourself for an eggspeditious defeat!
Batman: Very apt, Robin.
Robin: Oh. Glad you liked it.
Althouse: I hate egg salad.
Batman: Who asked you Catwoman?
Althouse: I'm not Catwoman. I'm from Wisconsin.
Robin: Who asked you Cheesewoman?
(Batman, 1966)
Robin: "Ghoti" is "fish"? I thought that was a guinea gangster.
Batman: See here. English phonetics. GH becomes F, as in "tough" or "laugh". O becomes I as in "women". TI becomes SH as in "ration" or the word "nation".
Robin: Holy semantics, Batman. You never cease to amaze me!
Batman: No time for compliments, Robin. We must thwart some criminals. To the Batmobile
Robin: What is a criminal twat Batman?
Batman: You are too young to understand Robin. No be a good ward and slide down the Bat Pole. And don’t mention it to the social worker.
(Batman, An Egg Grows in Gotham. Season2 episode 13)
Clearly, I need to start buying the Batman DVDs.
A gargoyle grows in Brooklyn!
Prof A
A gargoyle grows in Brooklyn!
TY
Hate to pettifog (actually, I love to), but G. B. Shaw is the creator of your "fish to ghoti" riff.
BTW, how does one pronounce “Desbrosses” Street? Used to be a great Italian Restaurant there with its menu written in chalk on a blackboard.
It seemed that there were always Gotti types there (pseudo-Gotti; faux Gotti?)
I know From Inwood, but that is a direct quote from the Batman archives, slightly adjusted for topicality.
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