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Rubodubdub thanks for the grub.
"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub."
When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it was just a phrase that Bart said without meaning. But a few minuites ago, I heard the same thing from the Family Guy. I searched the internet and found many matches. It seems like that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?
When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it was just a phrase that Bart said without meaning. But a few minuites ago, I heard the same thing from the Family Guy. I searched the internet and found many matches. It seems like that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?
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" When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? [/nq] I remember this nursery rhyme from my childhood: Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub Who do you think they be?
- " When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ...
- that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated?
- [/nq] I remember this nursery rhyme from my childhood: Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub Who do you think they be?
- The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker They all jumped out of a big potato My mother, Australian born of (southern) English parents, recited it exactly thus, ending here, and not with any of the other endings given in printed renditions.
- For the purpose of this rhyme, but not in other contexts, "potato" was pronounced "potayter".
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[nq:1]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
I remember this nursery rhyme from my childhood:
Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub
Who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
They all jum
I remember this nursery rhyme from my childhood:
Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub
Who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
They all jum
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[nq:1]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was used in The Simpsons but was not originated by the writers of tha
Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was used in The Simpsons but was not originated by the writers of tha
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[nq:2]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase ... where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
[nq:1]Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was ... program: "Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!" Raymond S. Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com[/nq]
That's fun.
[nq:1]Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was ... program: "Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!" Raymond S. Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com[/nq]
That's fun.
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On 13 Jan 2006 03:38:44 -0800, "Sin Jeong-hun"
[nq:1]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
I don't know about the origin, but as I've heard it it's incomplete without the line "Yay ***".
Rubodubdub thanks for the grub.
[nq:1]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
I don't know about the origin, but as I've heard it it's incomplete without the line "Yay ***".
Rubodubdub thanks for the grub.
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[nq:2]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase ... where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
[nq:1]Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was used in The Simpsons but was not originated by the writers of that program: "Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!"[/nq]
We hae bread and w
[nq:1]Stephen Calder gave you the answer, but I'd like to mention another joking way of saying grace. This, too, was used in The Simpsons but was not originated by the writers of that program: "Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!"[/nq]
We hae bread and w
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[nq:1]"Rubodubdub thanks for the grub." When I heard this phrase for the first time from The Simpsons, I thought it ... that it is a hilarious way of a pray but where is it originated? A TV show, or a movie?[/nq]
Actually theSimpsons imp out, it's supposed to be "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub,yeay ***!"
It is just an old Americanism and it pre-dates the Simpsons and Family Guy by deca
Actually theSimpsons imp out, it's supposed to be "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub,yeay ***!"
It is just an old Americanism and it pre-dates the Simpsons and Family Guy by deca
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[nq:1]Actually theSimpsons imp out, it's supposed to be "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub,yeay ***!" It is just an old Americanism and it pre-dates the Simpsons and Family Guy by decades at least. I knew it as a kid in the 60s.[/nq]
I agree. I heard used by a friend in about 1966 and it included the end, "Yay ***."
Brian Wickham
I agree. I heard used by a friend in about 1966 and it included the end, "Yay ***."
Brian Wickham
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[nq:2]Actually theSimpsons imp out, it's supposed to be "Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks ... least. I knew it as a kid in the 60s.[/nq]
[nq:1]I agree. I heard used by a friend in about 1966 and it included the end, "Yay ***."[/nq]
Rub-a-dub-dub is known in Britain as the first line of a nursery rhyme. I recall it from my childhood (1940s).
The version in Popular Nursery Rhymes, (Mother Goose Rhy
[nq:1]I agree. I heard used by a friend in about 1966 and it included the end, "Yay ***."[/nq]
Rub-a-dub-dub is known in Britain as the first line of a nursery rhyme. I recall it from my childhood (1940s).
The version in Popular Nursery Rhymes, (Mother Goose Rhy
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[nq:2]"Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!"[/nq]
[nq:1]We hae bread and we hae meat. Thank the Lord and let us eat. I could look it up, but it has the ring of something with a Burns origin.[/nq]
Another Simpsons connection, then? .
The Liebs
AKA Sideshow Bob
[nq:1]We hae bread and we hae meat. Thank the Lord and let us eat. I could look it up, but it has the ring of something with a Burns origin.[/nq]
Another Simpsons connection, then? .
The Liebs
AKA Sideshow Bob
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[nq:1]"Good drink...good meat...good ***, let's eat!"[/nq]
I learned it as "Good bread, good meat, good Lord, let's eat!"
John Varela
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I learned it as "Good bread, good meat, good Lord, let's eat!"
John Varela
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