{"id":147,"date":"2003-12-08T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/12\/08\/laurel-and-hardy\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T12:03:06","slug":"laurel-and-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/12\/08\/laurel-and-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel and Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a217'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw &#8220;Sons of the Desert&#8221; last night &mdash; the first Laurel &amp; Hardy I&#8217;ve seen since I was a little kid.  Loved it.  A couple random notes:<\/p>\n<p>When Stan and Ollie are going to sleep in Ollie&#8217;s makeshift bed in the scary attic, Stan says they&#8217;re just like &#8220;Two peas in a pot&#8221;, and is corrected by Ollie with some annoyance.  Later, Ollie&#8217;s wife (I couldn&#8217;t get her name) refers to Stan and Ollie with some annoyance as being like two peas in a pot, and is corrected by Stan.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty uncommon variant of &#8220;two peas in a pod&#8221; on Google.  The faux old-school &#8220;two pease in a pot&#8221; is unattested there, but when you think about it that makes perfect sense, since pease (pisum sativum) is not countable and peas (pisum sativum) are.  Likewise &#8220;two peas in a cod&#8221; is unattested.  Which is just as well; it definitely sounds a bit racy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ollie&#8217;s wife uses &#8220;infer&#8221; for &#8220;imply&#8221;.  As in, &#8220;do you mean to infer that I&#8230;&#8221;  This in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Stan and Ollie, when alone together, refer to their wives collectively as &#8220;the wives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Stan and Ollie both refer to Stan &amp; Betty&#8217;s house as &#8220;Betty&#8217;s house&#8221;.  This demonstrates what we know all too well from the rest of the film: poor Stan very much does not wear the pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw &#8220;Sons of the Desert&#8221; last night &mdash; the first Laurel &amp; Hardy I&#8217;ve seen since I was a little kid. Loved it. A couple random notes: When Stan and Ollie are going to sleep in Ollie&#8217;s makeshift bed in the scary attic, Stan says they&#8217;re just like &#8220;Two peas in a pot&#8221;, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}