Since I’ve just been asked by Paul D. Waite what this ubiquitous “X and Y and Z, oh my!” reference on many (American) blogs is all about, here’s the solution to the riddle:

It’s from the Wizard of Oz:

Dorothy: Do you think there could be wild animals in here? 
Tin Woodsman: Perhaps. 
Scarecrow: Even ones that, that eat... straw? 
Tin Woodsman: Some, but mostly lions and tigers and bears. 
Dorothy: Lions? 
Scarecrow: And tigers? 
Tin Woodsman: And bears.
Dorothy:Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh My!
 

Of course, I have to admit that I didn’t know it myself. I had to ask one of my colleagues, who’s actually been growing up here. Me, I’m just a German transplant who uses a colloquialism he likes.

Anyways, now it’s solved and stored in my “outboard brain”.

Commentary

  1. pauldwaite wrote on 10. Aug 2007

    And my brain can finally relax. You’re the man, Groby.

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