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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t get the connection...

but you can call me buttercup any time!


227 posted on 01/30/2016 7:35:57 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall

Kind of a wink at all. It’s from Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore. Buttercup and Captain are the part singers. Turns out the old lady Buttercup knew that someone who by birthright should have been the Captain was a lowly deck hand, and vice versa.


241 posted on 01/30/2016 7:38:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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