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Question: What does it mean in old cartoons and TV shows when a male character wears a giant fur coat!?
My friends and I are huge Looney Tunes fans but as we are all in our mid twenties the meaning of some of the older jokes escapes us!. One that we cannot figure out is what it means when a male character wears an over-sized fur coat!. It seems to be a very specific reference to something in 30's or 40's culture as it's used quite a bit!.
The best example that comes to mind is in the cartoon "The Three Little Bops" where the Big Bad Wolf makes his way onto the stage wearing the a giant fur coat and playing a ukulele as a way of disguising himself!. I also saw it on an episode of the Andy Griffith show today, which is what piqued my curiosity again!. Mayberry's high school was putting on a play about popular dances of older generations, and it featured girls dressed as flappers and one boy in the giant fur coat!.
As a bonus side question, we've also never been able to figure out what Bugs Bunny means when he says "You know how it is with these A cards" referring to the plane at the end of the cartoon "Falling Hare"
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The best example that comes to mind is in the cartoon "The Three Little Bops" where the Big Bad Wolf makes his way onto the stage wearing the a giant fur coat and playing a ukulele as a way of disguising himself!. I also saw it on an episode of the Andy Griffith show today, which is what piqued my curiosity again!. Mayberry's high school was putting on a play about popular dances of older generations, and it featured girls dressed as flappers and one boy in the giant fur coat!.
As a bonus side question, we've also never been able to figure out what Bugs Bunny means when he says "You know how it is with these A cards" referring to the plane at the end of the cartoon "Falling Hare"
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That was a popular outfit for male college students from the Northern states and Canada in the twenties and thirties!. The Ukulele was a popular instrument among those people!. Ukulele Ike, who is better known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket today, was, I believe, sometimes photographed in the fur coat and "boater" (straw hat)!.
You look at illustrations of old football games and you will see guys in fur coats in the spectator seats!. And of course they are all over the comic strips!. What people forget about the forties is there were real hardships based on that everyone was aware we were paying for a very expensive war in Europe and the Pacific just as the economic slowdown of the thirties was finally ending!. All of which meant that what had been glamorous was held on to as a sort of nostalgia!.
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You look at illustrations of old football games and you will see guys in fur coats in the spectator seats!. And of course they are all over the comic strips!. What people forget about the forties is there were real hardships based on that everyone was aware we were paying for a very expensive war in Europe and the Pacific just as the economic slowdown of the thirties was finally ending!. All of which meant that what had been glamorous was held on to as a sort of nostalgia!.
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Hi not sure about the first question, but the second -
"You know how it is with these A cards"
Refers to the rationing of resources in America during war time!.
There were different classifications of rationing represented by cards, ''A'' card being the least generous!.
Limiting the amount of gas that could be purchased!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
"You know how it is with these A cards"
Refers to the rationing of resources in America during war time!.
There were different classifications of rationing represented by cards, ''A'' card being the least generous!.
Limiting the amount of gas that could be purchased!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
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It is a visual reference to the "Roaring Twenties!." Those were the days that preceded the Great Depression when the nation was wild, wicked and self indulgent!. Flappers, the Charleston and long fur, raccoon mostly, coats were hot!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
Glen B,
The first surge of ukulele playing in the US was in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco where Hawaii hosted a pavillion!. The ukulele was introduced to America at that time and took off from there!. Many name brand guitar companies like Harmony, Martin, and Gibson had played around with the ukulele!. But after the PPE the ukulele really gained popularity and they got serious and started producing them!. The ukulele, because of it's size and portability for picnics, beach parties, football games, etc!. became most popular with the younger college and Vaudeville crowd!. The major dress overcoat was made of coon or beaver skin!. Thus the reason you see a picture of a person in a letterman's sweater wearing a fur coat with a ukulele in one hand and a school flag in the other!.
ADF2008 has it on the "A cards"!.
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The first surge of ukulele playing in the US was in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco where Hawaii hosted a pavillion!. The ukulele was introduced to America at that time and took off from there!. Many name brand guitar companies like Harmony, Martin, and Gibson had played around with the ukulele!. But after the PPE the ukulele really gained popularity and they got serious and started producing them!. The ukulele, because of it's size and portability for picnics, beach parties, football games, etc!. became most popular with the younger college and Vaudeville crowd!. The major dress overcoat was made of coon or beaver skin!. Thus the reason you see a picture of a person in a letterman's sweater wearing a fur coat with a ukulele in one hand and a school flag in the other!.
ADF2008 has it on the "A cards"!.
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