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"Ho hum," yawned Rabbit. "Ho hum," echoed Frog.
Kate of Lokys
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The subject of this post is something my mother used to say during moments of boredom, as far back as I can remember. It stuck in my head, and in my sister's head, and both of us started using it around our significant others, so now it's stuck in their heads too.
The problem is, none of us has any damned idea where it's from. We know it's from something: a Google search turned up a couple of old unanswered Answers.com questions about it, my sister thinks it might be from one of her childhood books, and my fiance Pixels insists that he's heard it before, as in before I started using it around him, like it was dialogue from something.
The obvious first step here would be to just ask my mother, but she said she thought it was from The Wind in the Willows, which we're all quite sure is wrong - there's no rabbit in TWitW, and the only frog-like thing is Mr. Toad.
It's a long shot, but I was hoping that maybe somebody here remembers what book or film or television series the damned line is from. It's bugging the hell out of everyone involved. Please, end our torment!
The problem is, none of us has any damned idea where it's from. We know it's from something: a Google search turned up a couple of old unanswered Answers.com questions about it, my sister thinks it might be from one of her childhood books, and my fiance Pixels insists that he's heard it before, as in before I started using it around him, like it was dialogue from something.
The obvious first step here would be to just ask my mother, but she said she thought it was from The Wind in the Willows, which we're all quite sure is wrong - there's no rabbit in TWitW, and the only frog-like thing is Mr. Toad.
It's a long shot, but I was hoping that maybe somebody here remembers what book or film or television series the damned line is from. It's bugging the hell out of everyone involved. Please, end our torment!
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Maybe Billy Bunny, but doesn't seem like it.
But you're making me want to read The Wind in the Willows again.
Yeah, I was looking at older stuff because it sounded like a old phrase for a kid's book. Though 'echo' might not have been in use as much, would probably have said 'repeated'.
From Who's in Rabbit's House by Verna Aardema. Full text here.
Edit: Looking through the story, I think I actually read that when I was young. I'd completely forgotten about it though.
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It's "Uh Huh", "Hey hey", or "Hum Hum"
Honestly, at this point, if it was just my sister and I who were wondering about the damned thing, I'd say our mother did make it up. But Pixels insists that he's heard it before independently of me saying it to him, and more significantly, there's that answers.com question about it, too - if it was just a silly thing my mother said, a stranger wouldn't be asking questions about it on the internet.
Gah, this is irritating.
*The Tale of Peter Rabbit
*The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
*The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
*The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
*The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
*The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
*The Tale of Two Bad Mice
*The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
*The Tale of Mr. Tod
*The Tale of Pigling Bland
*The Roly Poly Pudding
*The Pie and the Patty-pan
*Ginger and Pickles
*The Story of Miss Moppet
By Potter
That's what came to mind to me too.
I believe the official version is "Froggie went a courtin' he did ride uh-huh, uh-huh. Little froggie went a courtin' he did ride blah,blah,blah, something Bender is great. Froggie went a courtin' Bender is great uh-huh."
Or something like that.
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