Difference between revisions of "Upjock and hockums"
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* '''Tom, Dick and Harry''' → in FW these three represent [[Shem]], [[Shaun]] and the combined Shem-Shaun character who appears also in the guise of Tristan → [[patterjackmartins]] | * '''Tom, Dick and Harry''' → in FW these three represent [[Shem]], [[Shaun]] and the combined Shem-Shaun character who appears also in the guise of Tristan → [[patterjackmartins]] | ||
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Revision as of 12:07, 28 July 2006
- Up, Guards, and at 'em! words allegedly spoken by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo
- Ulysses 554.05: "Up, guards, and at them!"
- Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: "Is this the place where Wellington said ‘Up, guards, and at them?’ ... Yes, this is the place. But he never said those words." (Von Falke’s joke)
- hock, hough: to hamstring an animal
- hack: to cut to pieces with a sword
- hokum: a device found to elicit a display of mirth; something worthless or untrue
- Tom, Dick and Harry → in FW these three represent Shem, Shaun and the combined Shem-Shaun character who appears also in the guise of Tristan → patterjackmartins
