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SHREK--Chapter 4 |
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SHREK--Chapter 4 |
Chapter 4
In Northern Europe it is common to bake gingerbread cookies--shaped like people (the gingerbread man) and even to use pieces of gingerbread to make houses, such as you see in Taiwan bakeries around Christmas time in the past few years. Fairy tales and nursery rhymes include the Gingerbread Man and also the Muffin Man. Lord Farquaad and the Gingerbread Man recite the rhyme in the interrogation. Here is the text of the Muffin Man:
Oh, do you
know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, do you know the muffin man, That lives on Drury Lane?
Oh, yes, I
know the muffin man, The muffin
man , the muffin man, Oh, yes, I know the muffin man, That lives on Drury Lane.
There is also a whole poem for the Gingerbread Man. You can find it at http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/gingerbread/gingerbread_man_poem.htm One of the lines repeated in the poem is also said by Lord Farquaad:
Run, run, as
fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man
And now you know about the Muffin Man and the Gingerbread Man.
The Magic Mirror is from the story Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Every day the evil queen asks the mirror, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all?" (here fair means beautiful), and one say the mirror does not tell the queen it is she but says the name of Snow White instead, and here the trouble begins.
In Shrek the Magic Mirror takes on the voice of the host of an American game show as he lets Lord Farquaad see his three choices for his queen.
The mirror says of Snow White, "Although she lives with seven men, she's not easy." She's not easy means she doesn't give her body easily or quickly to any sexual activity.
piņa colada is a cocktail containing tequila
Fiona is a woman's name common in Britain but it is rarely used in the USA.