[net.nlang] Let them eat cake

sonnens@mprvaxa (08/19/83)

Recently, someone on the Net said "You can't have your cake and eat it too".
In fact, this is quite possible.  The correct expression is:  "You can't eat
your cake and have it too".
                                 
                                             Dan Sonnenschein

mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz) (08/20/83)

Which puts me in mind of a 10th rate country song I once heard (about
a two timing husband):

	You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too.

Sorry, I can't credit the author of this classic, as I never heard her
name.

Mike Lutz
{allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!mjl

rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/21/83)

Well, it might be kinky, but you could eat your cake and sit in it too.-- 
	By the fork, spoon, and exec of The Basfour.

Arpa:   rehmi.umcp-cs@udel-relay
Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!rehmi

levy@princeton.UUCP (08/21/83)

No, the correct quotation is "You can't have your cake and Edith, too..."
                  -- Silvio Levy

asente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente) (08/23/83)

As any aficianado of Gilbert & Sullivan can tell you, the quote

	"You can't have your Kate and Edith, too"

is a long-standing joke about Pirates of Penzance:  Kate and Edith
are Mabel's two sisters.

	-paul asente
	(decvax, ucbvax, allegra)!decwrl!asente