Just When I Was Wondering That Very Thing
February 24, 2012 2 Comments
I know the odds seem small and you’re probably not going to believe me, but just the other day I was thinking about how I didn’t know where that whole ‘dingo ate my baby’ quote came from. For example, Elaine says it on a Seinfeld episode, and it seemed funny to me, and it seemed as if it was a reference to something I was supposed to recognize, and I felt like I sorta did, but I couldn’t quite place it. A few days ago, I made a mental note to Wiki it. (Which I didn’t.)
Anyway, now I know. Thanks, dingos!
The headline on that link is “Australian inquest considers 1980 dingo-baby mystery”.
At first glace I read mystery as being plural and thought “wow, lots of babies get eaten by dingos – wonder why it’s such a mystery after 1980 incidents”.
Heh.
I suppose if dingos had eaten 1980 babies, that particular Seinfeld bit would have been in poor taste…