Talk:Who Ate All the Pies?

message: I have done a rework on this to make it a little more polished - hope you like it now! Brookie:the wind in the grass  15:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be dramatically expanded so someone not knowledgable about English or Scottish football can understand significance.  --Daniel C. Boyer 17:23, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Definitely. The article seems almost entirely worthless right now. --Shallot 10:58, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You could always contribute instead of sniping! :) Brookie: A collector of little round things 16:32, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major rework undertaken

message: The following text was on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, and related to the proposed deletion of two pages about individual football chants. The first was turned into a redirect, and discussion moved to Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. The status of the second (this one) remains undecided. There is no consensus to delete it, but some argument about whether it should have a separate article or be merged into football chant. -- Oliver P. 16:20, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text from Vfd 

message: I hope you'll forgive a comment that has nothing to do with improving this article, but I think this is quite amusing. On University Challenge this evening, there was a group of questions about this slogan, and one of them asked what the variant used by the Vegetarian Society as a slogan was. Now, it just so happens that I added the part about the Vegetarian Society to this article. Before that, there was only about one Google match for the phrase; now there are lots, mostly due to copying from Wikipedia. So I would be willing to bet that the question setters got the idea from this very article! And hence, by extension, from me. :) Lucky I didn't just make it up, isn't it? I hope they checked a more reliable source before going ahead and setting it as a question, though, because it would be quite worrying if they were treating Wikipedia as gospel... (Oh, and it probably goes without saying, but the contestants didn't get the answer.) -- Oliver P. 22:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was watching this as well - and commented that the question seemed to have come from here! Power to the Wiki! Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! (Whisper...) 06:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on ''University Challenge''! 

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message: I'm not a songatologist, but if this song preceded "Knees Up Mother Brown", could it be that Mother Brown took it's tune from "Pies"? The latter, to this day, is well known among working-class people and probably more as well. We even sang it at school as kids, years ago (though not in sight of a teacher!). So whoever composed "Knees Up" might well have known it. Maybe Mother Brown is one of those cases of a rude song adapted for the music hall to be slightly less rude, there were plenty of those.
Particularly, the lyrics fit the tune perfectly. As if one was created for the other, and usually song lyrics are at least altered, if not created, to fit in with a tune. Have the lyrics always been the same, even pre-Mother Brown? It's compelling evidence. Football chants tend to develop organically in the stands and pubs, sometimes to existing tunes, sometimes not. 
90.243.234.191 (talk) 13:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knees up Mother Brown 

message: >In England, fans at football games sometimes eat meat pies before kick-off or at half-time. On occasion there are not enough pies to go round and so any player looking a little overweight gets heckled with the question "Who ate all the pies?".
I'm unsurprised that this isn't cited, because it's a load of unsubstantiated rubbish. 'Who ate all the pies' is a general phrase (in England at least, I can't speak for the US) to take the piss out of a fat person. The idea that its origin is specifically linked to meat pies at football games just has no basis whatsoever. Can I remove this paragraph? Jthistle38 (talk) 12:32, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Be Bold and delete it if you think it isn't correct. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 12:35, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who wrote this crap?