Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 19, 2010

Most excellent!

His Merry Men just got a lot more merry.

yeah………….Merry Merlot Men!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!

Merry Christmas!

MontanaLady….Now, let’s not get too merry tonight!

okay, Pacejv………only 2 glasses!

Bung will now be known as Will Scarletnose.

MontanaLady…. I ‘clink’ to our merriment!

Good, now Friar Tuck can hold communion every ten minutes.

Whine cellar keys if you get caught.

So Robin’s Bar now has a Merry Hour?

Now they’re going to be Marinating Men.

Yeah, if the King doesn’t hear them, Susan001.

It’s not “Every man has his price”. It’s:

Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, ”All those men have their price.” - William Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole (vol. IV, p. 369)

We’re MEN, we’re men in tights TIGHT tights!

Do you believe the Fink would give Bung the keys? Surely you jest.

Reminds me of Mel Brooks as the 2000 year old man. When he is asked if he met Robn Hood, he says he has and that the image of the man is incorrect. He says that Robin stole from the rich, stole from the poor and kept everything.

That archer in the tree headed to the celler so fast, he took the whole limb with him.

Thanks for the historical clarification, runar. Evidently people have gotten more cynical between then and now. Or have they?

Here’s another blast from the past that gave rise to a somewhat different modern idiom:

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet - A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. (Curtius Rufus)