Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 22, 2014
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Transcript:
Phoebe: What do unicorns snack on at parties? HORSE D'OUEVRES! Marigold: What are horse doovers? Phoebe: I saved up a bunch of these while you were gone, so rather than explaining I'm just gonna push through.
For the longest time, I never connected the written phrase “hors d’oeuvre” with the spoken phrase always I heard as “orderve;” felt like a complete moron when the penny finally dropped. (Hey, don’t blame me. I grew up in a family a’ crackers what didn’t cotton t’ no fancy stuff. They thought I was mentally handicapped because I loved “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and it didn’t even HAVE planes.)