Matches in DBpedia 2015-04 for { ?s ?p ""Walk this way" is a recurrent pun in a number of movies and television shows, most recently in movies by Mel Brooks. It may be derived from an old vaudeville joke. It refers to the double usage of "way" in English as both a direction and a manner.One version of the old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I would not need talcum powder!"Another version adds a visual, not any less vaudevillian, dimension to the joke: One character would say, "Walk this way" and walks off in a limping or waddling or otherwise odd manner, and the second character would follow, mimicking the mannerisms of the first."@en }
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- Walk_this_way_(humor) abstract ""Walk this way" is a recurrent pun in a number of movies and television shows, most recently in movies by Mel Brooks. It may be derived from an old vaudeville joke. It refers to the double usage of "way" in English as both a direction and a manner.One version of the old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I would not need talcum powder!"Another version adds a visual, not any less vaudevillian, dimension to the joke: One character would say, "Walk this way" and walks off in a limping or waddling or otherwise odd manner, and the second character would follow, mimicking the mannerisms of the first.".