# What are these people saying? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882 "2005-11-07T06:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/1 "2005-11-07T06:43:55Z")
I apologize if this has been discussed already, I clearly don’t know how to search a thread properly - when I tried to search on “To Have and Have Not” I got nothing. In the movie when Lauren Bacall is singing the song “How Little We Know”, the people around the piano, and even Hoagy Carmichael (as Cricket) are saying/whispering/chanting something in the background. I have watched this film a dozen times and I still can’t make out what (or why) they are saying. Anyone have a clue? ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/2 "2005-11-08T09:43:39Z")
“Every morning/it’s time to feed” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/3 "2005-11-08T13:54:57Z")
That’s so obscure. How the hell could you KNOW that??? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/4 "2005-11-08T19:13:41Z")
Thank you, **VC03** , but yeah, what \*\*Kalhoun \*\* said. And it doesn’t make much sense within the context of the rest of the song. However, next time I watch it I will check it out. I am dying to know what your source is - did you lip-read it? Hoagy Carmichael’s autobiography? Is it in the sheet music (I don’t think so, I’ve seen the sheet music)? Please divulge 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/5 "2005-11-08T19:17:33Z")
Sorry, guys, I was just making a stupid reference to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343001&highlight=gold+digger), which was up at the same time. I’ve never seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-people-saying/329882/6 "2005-11-08T21:18:29Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > Sorry, guys, I was just making a stupid reference to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343001&highlight=gold+digger), which was up at the same time. I’ve never seen the movie. Where’s the razzberry smiley when we need it? Oh well, at least you’ve bumped this a couple of times and maybe we’ll get a real answer. :dubious: