Who are you, Dick Van Dyke? off back to the 1800s and take your penguins with you.
The quoted is from another website that explain the usage of 'chum'.
1. what does 'take your penguins' with you refer to?
2. I knew Dick Van Dyke is an actor. Is he very important?
3. Is 'chum' very old fashioned as it is commented?
Thanks!
The penguins are a reference to a sequence in the film Mary Poppins , in which **** Van **** dances with some animated penguins. According to a search of the script that I found online, the word "chum" is not used anywhere in that film, but perhaps the person who wrote this thought the word fitted the old-fashioned British setting and/or Van ****'s cockney character. ) Where I live, in England, the word "chum" is not used much now.
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The penguins are a reference to a sequence in the film Mary Poppins, in which **** Van **** dances with some animated penguins. According to a search of the script that I found online, the word "chum" is not used anywhere in that film, but perhaps the person who wrote this thought the word fitted the old-fashioned British setting and/or Van ****'s cockney character. (Actually the film i
1) **** Van **** did a famous dance with penguins in the movie Mary Poppins.
2) He's over 90 now. I'm sure he is