Who said... how now brown cow,and yes we have no bananas

Question

Who said... how now brown cow,and yes we have no bananas

Answer 1

The same person who said, 'The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain'...?

Answer 2

Yus, we 'ave no bananas, we 'ave no bananas today,

We've got knicker elastic, it's simply fantastic,

you can't it get nowhere these days,

But yus, we 'ave no bananas, we 'ave no bananas today.

Answer 3

"How now brown cow" is a phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate rounded vowel sounds. Each "ow" sound in the phrase represents an individual diphthong. The phrase does not have an explicit meaning per se but can be used as a light-hearted greeting.[1] Although the exact origins of the phrase are unclear, it can be dated to at least 1942 in the United States.[1] In February of that year the Maryland newspaper The Capital mentioned the phrase when discussing a famous thespian's voice:

    Laird Cregar, now contributing his booming voice to 'Ten Gentlemen from West Point': explains how he got it. When he first tried out for the Pasadena Community Playhouse his voice wouldn't carry past the front rows. Coach Belle Kennedy had him declaim 'How, Now, Brown Cow? and The Rain in Spain Still Stains' - over and over

"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is the title of a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn that was a major hit in 1923, and one of the top songs of the 20th century. The song was recorded by Billy Jones, Arthur Hall, Irving Kaufman and others that year, and covered later by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Spike Jones & His City Slickers and many more. It also inspired a follow-up, "I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues", recorded by Jones and others in 1923.

Some speculate that a banana shortage at the time inspired the song.[1] The Long Island, New York, town of Lynbrook claims the songwriters wrote the tune there and that the catchphrase "Yes! We have no bananas" was coined by Jimmy Costas, a local Greek American greengrocer[2]; however, a 1923 article in the Chicago Tribune said the phrase originated in the Windy City in 1920.[3]

The song was the theme of the Outdoor Relief protests in Belfast in 1932. These were a unique example of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland protesting together, and the song was used because it was one of the few non-sectarian songs that both communities knew. The song lent its title to a book about the depression in Belfast.[1]

The term has been resurrected on many occasions, including in Britain during World War II when the British Government banned the importing of bananas for five years. Shop owners would place signs stating "Yes, we have no bananas" in their shop windows in keeping with the general war spirit.

The song also appeared in the popular Archie Comics and was mentioned in the 1939 film, Only Angels Have Wings, and the 1954 movie, Sabrina. In The English Patient film, a few verses are sung as a joke. The German version "Ausgerechnet Bananen" was featured in Billy Wilder's 1961 slapstick comedy One, Two, Three, being played by an over-the-hill dance band at a drab East Berlin hotel bar. In the 1970s, Harry Chapin used this phrase in the chorus to his song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas". More recently, the phrase was again used by the media when Cyclone Larry destroyed a large proportion of Australia's banana crop in 2006, leading to a shortage for most of the year.

Answer 4

Bananas in pyjamas

Answer 5

Eliza Doolittle From "My Fair Lady".

Answer 6

the bull

a shoe shop that ran out of slippers

lol

Answer 7

Ron Burghandy