Thanks to AL, but I still don't get it.
Today, John Sterling twice said "Merry Andrew coming home"
to celebrate Andruw Jones home run call.The 1958 movie, "Merry Andrew," starring Danny Kaye.
Big song: "Everything is Tickety-Boo"
Wikipedia says a merry andrew is a clown or buffoon.
It can be a verb: merryandrew, which means to play as a clown. It stems from the 1300s and the Feast of Fools.
But nothing googles for "Merry Andrew coming home."
A couple possibilities:
In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions merry andrews while describing the effects of the plague on London society.
In the romantic comedy movie "Kate & Leopold", Leopold tells Charlie that he is a merry andrew.
The character Rolf in the cartoon Ed, Edd, and Eddy has been known to use the term.
There is a music-based internet radio program called The Merry Andrews Show.
Merry Andrew is the name of one of Crazy Jane's alternate personalities in Doom Patrol.
And this:
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2 comments:
We're reaching Peak Sterling. Having exhausted the distant past, he's trying to invent his own pop culture.
Haven't you guys heard of occam's razor?
I think John is merely playing off the stupid grin Andruw has on his face. "He's coming home," i.e. coming to home plate.
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