i poke badgers with sticks

Over seventy years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder writes about poking badgers with sticks and it's not the least bit funny. But Eddie Izzard - who is a huge "Little House on the Prairie" fan, btw - flubs a line and pokes badgers with spoons instead of sticks and suddenly it's a freaking byword.

Okay, so I don't really know if Izzard is a LH fan (I know that I'm a huge Eddie Izzard fan), but he does share his birthday with LIW. If you haven't heard the "I poked a badger with a spoon" line, it's from his 1999 Dress to Kill dvd, in reference to Catholicism and original sin.
- posted by pioneergirl at 9:40 PM