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El Gato
10-02-2005, 08:45 PM
"Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch"

Where is this from? My wife and I used it the other day to make fun of a friend (in a friendly way, of course :) ). But then we couldn't remember where it was from.

We would appreciate it if anyone who could shed some light on this.

Thanks!

José
scotpens
10-02-2005, 08:53 PM
It was used by the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, and Lucille Ball, among others. It probably originated in a burlesque routine — at least, according to:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/1155.html

Ain't Google a wonderful thing?
Zorro
10-02-2005, 08:55 PM
Google turned up this:


http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/27/messages/1105.html
Capt_L_Hogthrob
10-02-2005, 09:23 PM
I remember that. It was on an episode of I Love Lucy. Funny stuff.

2/18/52: "The Ballet"
I Love Lucy Episode 19 - Filmed 1/11/52
Story: Lucy performs an unexpected stint as a ballerina, then has a lesson in burlesque from a professional comic. Includes the classic routine, "Slowly I Turned."
Guests: Mary Wickes (Madame LeMond), Frank Scannell (Burlesque Comic)
John P
10-02-2005, 10:05 PM
"NIAGRA FALLS!!!"
Sloooooooowly I turned.......

Very old comedy routine that every comedy team in the 40s used.
El Gato
10-03-2005, 10:30 AM
Google? I ain't no good at using none of this newfangled technology stuff...

Thanks for the info guys! :wave: It didn't occur to me to Google that line. But you should be flattered that my first instinct was to come to you guys. :thumbsup:

José
The-Nightsky
10-03-2005, 07:31 PM
"Moe, Larry,The cheese!"Moe, Larry,The cheese!"
John P
10-03-2005, 08:18 PM
"SUS-quehanna Hat Company!!!???" :mad:
Zombie_61
10-08-2005, 04:51 PM
"Moe, Larry,The cheese!"Moe, Larry,The cheese!"
"No, Limberger!"
Robert Hargrave
10-09-2005, 09:27 AM
The first time I can remember those words being spoken was in a Three Stooges Movie "Stop, look and listen" Boy is the memory going, it started out with the puppetier (is that spelled right?) Paul Mitchell telling his dummy Jerry Mahoney a bed time story, using Three Stooges shorts to fill in the story line. The last scene with the car doing the slowly I turn rotune I love. Theres my two bits worth.
scotpens
10-09-2005, 06:47 PM
It's Paul Winchell, not Mitchell. It's "puppeteer." And anyway, technically he was a ventriloquist.
All together now: PICKY, PICKY, PICKY!!
Robert Hargrave
10-10-2005, 06:47 PM
It's Paul Winchell, not Mitchell. It's "puppeteer." And anyway, technically he was a ventriloquist.
All together now: PICKY, PICKY, PICKY!!

So Mitchell sells hair products, Winchell sells donuts, and does ventriloquism, no wonder their donuts have holes in them. PICKY, PICKY yes, but I deserved it, said the memory was going.