Robert, I’ve called Anne “baby duck” and/or “duckie” for years. I don’t remember where that came from; it’s just one of those cutesy things lovers do that please each other but make everyone around them ill, you know?
As for the “raggedy girl” thing, that’s actually a paraphrase of a line from the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. At the end of the flick, Tina Turner, her little post-apocalyptic kingdom in ruins, looks down at the battered hero (who has essentially sacrificed himself as a distraction while a bunch of other characters flee Turner’s goons), and for a moment she seems ready to kill him. Then she just smiles and says, “Well, ain’t we a pair, raggedy man?”
I said this to Anne one time when we were both feeling under the weather and looking awful, and it’s since become kind of a running gag for us.
I imagine the actual explanations of these things are much less lurid and/or interesting than whatever you were imagining. 🙂
Happy birthday, Anne!
If it’s not too personal, could one of you explain the etymology of “duckie” and “raggedy girl”?
Robert, I’ve called Anne “baby duck” and/or “duckie” for years. I don’t remember where that came from; it’s just one of those cutesy things lovers do that please each other but make everyone around them ill, you know?
As for the “raggedy girl” thing, that’s actually a paraphrase of a line from the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. At the end of the flick, Tina Turner, her little post-apocalyptic kingdom in ruins, looks down at the battered hero (who has essentially sacrificed himself as a distraction while a bunch of other characters flee Turner’s goons), and for a moment she seems ready to kill him. Then she just smiles and says, “Well, ain’t we a pair, raggedy man?”
I said this to Anne one time when we were both feeling under the weather and looking awful, and it’s since become kind of a running gag for us.
I imagine the actual explanations of these things are much less lurid and/or interesting than whatever you were imagining. 🙂
I think we make a fantastic pair, raggedy man. 🙂
Thanks, Robert!