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Charlie Chan and the 'tum-tum sky'!
In The House Without a Key (1925) by Earl Derr Biggers, there's a quote from a poem which goes something like...
'Angels look down from tum-tum skies on sparkling Waikiki'.
Now, my Concise Oxford Dictionary says 'tum-tum' has something to do with banjoes, but what is a 'tum-tum sky'?
Wiki wiki my litlle malahinis and wahines! :-D
Mahalo
Nick from England
'Angels look down from tum-tum skies on sparkling Waikiki'.
Now, my Concise Oxford Dictionary says 'tum-tum' has something to do with banjoes, but what is a 'tum-tum sky'?
Wiki wiki my litlle malahinis and wahines! :-D
Mahalo
Nick from England
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[nq:1]In The House Without a Key (1925) by Earl Derr Biggers, there's a quote from a poem which goes something ... with banjoes, but what is a 'tum-tum sky'? Wiki wiki my litlle malahinis and wahines!
- [nq:1]In The House Without a Key (1925) by Earl Derr Biggers, there's a quote from a poem which goes something ...
- with banjoes, but what is a 'tum-tum sky'?
- Wiki wiki my litlle malahinis and wahines!
- " is what the book says.
- Since Mr Quincy is struggling to remember the poem, it may be that 'tum tum' is what we would see more often as, eg, 'dum de dum'.
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[nq:1]In The House Without a Key (1925) by Earl Derr Biggers, there's a quote from a poem which goes something ... with banjoes, but what is a 'tum-tum sky'? Wiki wiki my litlle malahinis and wahines! :-D Mahalo Nick from England[/nq]
Aloha nui loha and ey-up chuck right back atcha
"And looking down from tum-tum skies, the angels smile on Waikiki." is what the book says.
Since Mr Quinc
Aloha nui loha and ey-up chuck right back atcha
"And looking down from tum-tum skies, the angels smile on Waikiki." is what the book says.
Since Mr Quinc
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[nq:2]"I come from haunts of coot and hern I make a sudden sally And sparkle something something fern To rumpty tumpty valley."[/nq]
[nq:1]Now that's what I call poetry! The Assyrian came down Like a dum de dum dum His tum-te-tum gleaming in rumpty tum tum[/nq]
I prefer something sensible, like:
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The more it goes
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[nq:1]Now that's what I call poetry! The Assyrian came down Like a dum de dum dum His tum-te-tum gleaming in rumpty tum tum[/nq]
I prefer something sensible, like:
(Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes
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The more it goes
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