More Tea, Vicar?

We are still getting responses to our conversation about the phrase,

Excuse the pig, the hog’s out walking.

This is what a person who makes a rude noise might say immediately afterward to apologize to people.

You know, excuse the pig, the hog’s out walking.

Right, if somebody burps or passes wind.

Yes, and we heard from Robert Scott, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida,

And he said he was hoping that we would also talk about things that someone hearing such a noise might say in response.

And he writes, when I lived in the UK, the sardonic quip I would hear made most often by someone hearing an unintentional noise would be,

Morty Vicar? Is there an American equivalent, I wonder?

And it turns out that more tea vicar, you know, pretending as if you’re at tea time with a member of the clergy and offering them more tea to distract from whatever happened just before that, is quite a thing.

Or you might say, good evening, vicar, or another cucumber sandwich, vicar.

And apparently this was popularized by a British comedian in the 60s and 70s named Dick Emery, who often used this expression, more tea vicar.

And in fact, he recorded this goofy song called The Vicar of Belching by the Sea.

Which sounds like a British place, right?

Absolutely.

I’m from Belching by the Sea.

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