Anyone know why Elaine said, "The dingo ate your baby?" E-mail replies if possible. Thanks very much.
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Nathaniel Fredman wrote:
The joke comes from a true story that happened in Australia in the 1950s. A woman was accused of murdering her baby and was savagly attacked at eh time. It turned out that a dingo, an Australian wiild dog, ate the baby. The story was told in a bad movie called "A Cry in the Dark" featuring Merly Streep in a truly stupid Australian accent. The sadness of the story and the pure meaness of the remark is what makes it so funny. It is in keeping with Ealine's character.
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:48:38 GMT, [email] (Ross Mandell) wrote:
Uh, you have it backwards. The story was that the woman claimed that while they were camping out in some park in Australia, a dingo came into the tent and took the baby right from the bassinet. She was later charged with the murder of the child and it all went on to be the biggest trial in Australian history.
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On 18 Apr 1997, Dave wrote:
I can't think of the name of the movie but it was about the Lindy Chaimberland(sp) saga. (ie. this woman either did or didn't kill her baby and claimed that a dingo ate it) It's a big thing in Australia. cassic line (in worst australian accent ever): She's my baybee, not sum objict
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It took place at a party where Elaine was stuck talking to a boring women who kept mentioning her fiance. She refered to him as here baby.
the women, "I don't know where my baby is?" Elaine," Maybe the dingos ate your baby" the women, "What?" Elaine, "The dingos ate your baby"
(Said with a very strong Austrailian accent)
It came from that movie starring Meryl Streep . . dunno what the name of it was . . but this family was out camping near Ayers (sp?) rock and some dingo snatched her baby. At the courtroom hearing Streep says, "the dango ate my baybee!" *sob*
It alway struck me as funny the way she said it; and when Elaine repeated it i almost died laughing.
In article , Greg wrote:
ROFLMA!!! I just loved it..I'm laughing just thinking about it!
I was in a big corporate managment/consultant brainwashing session not too long ago. During a break, the 8 of us at my table discovered we all loved the show. We spent our 15 minutes doing one liners like that and just busted a gut.... We had a day and half to go, and it was really really tough to look around the table at each other and not crack up after that. On the second day, the Pres came in for awhile and stopped by to see how we were doing. We were of course doing Seinfeld and his comment was "I'd better get out of here before I lose control in front of all these people!"
Reference: Movie starring Meryl Streep (forget the title) Streep says in court, "The dango ate my baybee! *sob*" I thought it was kinda funny when streep said it; when Elaine said it i fell down laughing.
In article , Greg writes:
Wasn't the movie " A Cry in The Dark"?
Yes it was. It was called "Evil Angels" in Australia