Showing posts with label Perils of Pauline movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perils of Pauline movie. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

See the Liquid Amber bud-ding


The title for this post is inspired by an old movie that I stumbled across a few years ago on community TV. It was called The Perils of Pauline, from 1947. There's a delightfully funny scene where the hero's best friend teaches the heroine how to enunciate her words properly.

'Round, like an orange', he forms his words with exaggerated precision.

And then he follows it up with the equally well-articulated, 'see the chrysanthemums budding'.

Hilarious non-sequiteur sentences that