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HolySmoke - you sound like the kids in my grade - they hear the song “I’m a believer” and yell “Shrek! Shrek! It’s the Shrek song!”
From Wikipedia:
The rhyme is first recorded in a British manuscript of around 1820 preserved in the Bodleian Library with lyrics very similar to those used today:
Do you know the muffin man
And don’t you know his name
Do you know the muffin man,
That lives in Drury Lane?
Drury Lane is a street in London, also notable for its theatre. Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered; muffins would be delivered door-to-door by a muffin man. The “muffins” were the product known in much of the English-speaking world today as English muffins, not the cupcake-shaped American variety.
The rhyme and game appear to have spread to other countries in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly the USA and the Netherlands. As with many traditional songs, there are regional variations in wording. Another popular version substitutes “Dorset Lane” for Drury Lane.
The joke works here as it is in a kitchen AND most of us have seen Shrek - giving new life to an old rhyme :)
You obviously didn’t see SHREK. I KNOW the rhyme silly. THe WAY it’s presented in this cartoon is EXACTLY like the movie.
I love the SHREK movie and it was a big hit. No one else here saw that movie?????
Parsons…
I’m taking about the WAY the joke is presented…NOT the use of the words of the well-known rhyme. If you haven’t seen SHREK, you don’t know what I’m talking about so why bother commenting on my point.
ALso, the Shrek writers didn’t STEAL the “joke” from the old rhyme - the rhyme is not a joke - you moron.
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Margueritem
said,
2 months ago
Does he live in Drury Lane?
cleokaya
said,
2 months ago
So early in the morning.
Mark_O_Polo said, 2 months ago
I know the muffin man. He’s a bit of a flaky guy.
fredbuhl said, 2 months ago
I’m sure she’ll flip when he checks her “cupcakes”…
Tom Saaristo
said,
2 months ago
Someone needs the White Out
geedee said, 2 months ago
Isn’t he related to the Pillsbury Doughboy?
bald 716 said, 2 months ago
the girl on the left may have already dated the muffin man
rricchhterr said, 2 months ago
you know, the stud muffin
Shy Shy said, 2 months ago
what’s go on wit the muffin man?
HolySmoke said, 2 months ago
Why is this cartoon doing an exact joke from Shrek?
I’m amazed I’m the only person on these comments to notice that. None of you have seen SHREK????
Ji2m said, 2 months ago
When I was in my 20’s I was a bit of a stud muffin… Now that I’m in my 40’s I’m more muffin and less stud…
Ash said, 2 months ago
FFXXED?
barbhinkins said, 2 months ago
HolySmoke - you sound like the kids in my grade - they hear the song “I’m a believer” and yell “Shrek! Shrek! It’s the Shrek song!”
From Wikipedia:
The rhyme is first recorded in a British manuscript of around 1820 preserved in the Bodleian Library with lyrics very similar to those used today:
Do you know the muffin man
And don’t you know his name
Do you know the muffin man,
That lives in Drury Lane?
Drury Lane is a street in London, also notable for its theatre. Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered; muffins would be delivered door-to-door by a muffin man. The “muffins” were the product known in much of the English-speaking world today as English muffins, not the cupcake-shaped American variety.
The rhyme and game appear to have spread to other countries in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly the USA and the Netherlands. As with many traditional songs, there are regional variations in wording. Another popular version substitutes “Dorset Lane” for Drury Lane.
The joke works here as it is in a kitchen AND most of us have seen Shrek - giving new life to an old rhyme :)
HolySmoke said, 2 months ago
You obviously didn’t see SHREK. I KNOW the rhyme silly. THe WAY it’s presented in this cartoon is EXACTLY like the movie.
I love the SHREK movie and it was a big hit. No one else here saw that movie?????
Parson1 said, 2 months ago
Yeah Holy, you are the only person in the world that seen Shrek. The Shrek writers stole the joke from a old rhyme from sometime around 1850.
HyperShock said, 2 months ago
what kind of word is “FFЖEь”?
HolySmoke said, 2 months ago
Parsons…
I’m taking about the WAY the joke is presented…NOT the use of the words of the well-known rhyme. If you haven’t seen SHREK, you don’t know what I’m talking about so why bother commenting on my point.
ALso, the Shrek writers didn’t STEAL the “joke” from the old rhyme - the rhyme is not a joke - you moron.
HyperShock said, 2 months ago
oh… so FFЖEь was actually supposed to be fixed