2009/7/30 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: > [1] since this probably doesn't translate, in North America (dunno > about the UK) girls around age 6-10 will say "pretty please with > sugar on top" (i.e. similar to a cake, pastry, or some other sweet > dessert) as an especially cutesy way of asking for a favor. Due > to a rarely-enforced act of parliament in 1869, though, this > phrase can only be uttered by people with twin braids. There was > a famous court case in 1977 when a child actress used this phrase > in a TV reshowing of Anne of Green Gables, wearing only a single > braid.
I am afraid you overlooked the still-applied 1922 amendment, that explicitely allowed single-braided girls under 12 to use this locution in conjunction with any phrase that includes all of the following words: "daddy", "buy", "pony". Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
