Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A ruling on Andruw Jones' homerun call

"Keeping up with Joneses... he's merry Andruw."

Merry Andrew...

Mary Andrews?

Mary and Drew?

Marianne Drew?

Mare-E-and-ROO.

I don't get it.

1 comment:

AL said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_andrew_%28clown%29

A merry andrew is a clown or buffoon or mountebank's assistant.

The OED also mentions that Merryandrew can also be used as a verb—meaning to play like a clown.