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hey, Mr Squirrel, pull your pants up! expression or saying

Callback to a joke that clearly tickled Pa but was never given in full

Origin

Probably turns on references specific to the USA, where Pa lived at the time. The putative punchline is:
… you’ve got your nuts to hide

Collector

Pa – 1970s
Noel King – father of Naomi

Notes

Pull your pants up is the US equivalent of UK’s Pull your socks up (ie Get on with it).

Mr Squirrel is not a reference to Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Herr Eichhorn und der Mond (Mr Squirrel and the Moon) which wasn’t written until 2015

Submitted: 03/09/2023 by Mark

any thoughts?

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