But not in the summer. She takes that off.
CONSTANCE FRY
Tune: Aura Lee/Love me tender (or very similar)
Zeta Chi, Zeta Chi, Zeta Chi my friend;
'neath the elms we sing our tones –
We’re brothers to the end.
We like Sigma kappa girls
They’re our number ones.
Bobby sox and lovely curls,
And such lovely ‘buns’.
Lovely buns, lovely buns, Held so firm and high.
If you’re thinking doughy buns,
You’re not Zeta chi.
Some want their girls full of zest,
Some like breasts and thighs.
I like rounded curves the best,
Just like Constance Fry’s.
Constance Fry, Constance Fry, Full of Rubens’ charms.
Smile to cheer me, softly sigh,
Take me in your arms.
Muffy in the bathroom stall,
Margaret by the lake.
Susan down in Whitley Hall,
Constance on the make.
Constance Fry, Constance Fry, anytime you call.
Constance would fulfil, your needs –
Winter, Spring or Fall.
“And she stepped on the ball.”
Why was that funny, Susan?
I’ve wondered that each of the approximately 700 times I’ve watched this film. I used to think she was supposedly telling some stupid joke and we’re seeing how these people are so vapid, they’ll laugh at stupid things. Now I think she’s just talking about the tennis game they just played. Maybe that’s obvious to everyone else. Anyway, still don’t know what’s funny about it.
Susan was repeating the joke that Gloria Upson told in Auntie Mame. It signals to the movie geeks in the audience that she is an empty-headed prep-school snob.
Thank you, mbh, for solving that decades old mystery for me!
I may have mentioned that the main theme music is from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which I learn from Wikipedia “concerns the story of a servant who is wronged by his wealthy employer, Count Almaviva, and takes his revenge by unraveling the count’s own machinations.” So it’s sort of appropriate that it’s used here. Trading Places is a great film with surprising depth.
Yeah.
Never mind.
@codinghorror, again, please fix your platform. “nm” is a perfectly adequate post.
It was a squash club, wasn’t it?
“Love Me Tender” is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music from the 20th Century Fox film of the same name. The words are credited to Ken Darby under the pseudonym “Vera Matson”, the name of his wife, and Elvis Presley. The RCA Victor recording by Elvis Presley was no. 1 on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1956. The song was adapted from the melody for “Aura Lee”, a sentimental Civil War ballad.
As with nearly all his early RCA recordings, Presley took control in the studio despite not being credited as producer. He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point that the original song was barely recognizable.[citation needed] Ken Darby described Elvis Presley’s role in the creation of the song:
“He adjusted the music and the lyrics to his own particular presentation. Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to. All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own! He has perfect judgment of what is right for him. He exercised that judgment when he chose ‘Love Me Tender’ as his theme song.”
Fun fact: Watching that clip reminded me that Todd was played by Rob Brown, who actually was a member of the Whiffenpoofs … of 1979, IIRC.
Constance Frye also showed up on How I Met Your Mother,
