DH sign +pantomime horse

[justcarol67]

Geoff wrote:
> I believe that Harry's thought here was that they would be blundering  along getting in each other's way. There is a phrase about being "the back end of a pantomime horse". A pantomime horse costume is usually rather garishly coloured and worn by two people where the person at the back has to be guided by the leader and also has to avoid treading on the leader's feet. Hence it is a rather clumsy way of getting around. they are usually employed in a pantomime as one form of comic activity.

Carol:
That makes sense. Here I was thinking in terms of the imaginary horses ridden by King Arthur and his Knights in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Appropriately or coincidentally, I just saw that film for the first time a few nights ago, about a day after I posted my first response, so imagine my surprise at seeing ^my* idea of a pantomime horse throughout that (silly) film.

Carol, who has been hounded to see the film for years and was expecting it to be much funnier

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