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Oh, come on...it's "traditional", folks...
As in "oompah-loompah, stick it up yer joompah!" (the "jumper", in this case, being a knitted piece of clothing, as often worn by Richard Branson about a decade ago...as opposed to something you change on your motherboard to alter hardware settings and clear the BIOS)...
It's also on a Beatles' clbuttic "I am the Walrus":
"I am the Eggman... They are the Eggmen...
I am the Walrus!
Coo-coo-cuchoo-cuh-coo-coo-cuchoo! Coo-coo-cuchoo-cuh-coo-coo-cuckoo!
Choo-gar! Choo-gar! Choo-gar!
Choo-gar...choo-gar...choo-gar...choo-gar, choo-gar!
choo-gar, choo-gar! choo-gar, choo-gar!
(Oompah loompah, stick it up yer joompah!)
Kelli Halliburton The above is yet more off-the-subject garbage in a failed, pathetic attempt to disprove the following fact: "Verbal" is not a synonym for "oral". Usenet uses words; it...
choo-gar, choo-gar!
To be blunt you have no clue what you are talking about and I am somewhat restricted in what I can...
(Oompah loompah, stick it up yer joompah!)"
Near end of "I am the Walrus", the Beatles (transcription may not be entirely accurate, as the lyrics are, indeed, complete mumbo-jumbo, that you can't be entirely sure you heard it correctly...but they definitely are repeating "oompah-loompah, stick it up yer joompah" over and over at the end, in amongst a bunch of other strange and incomprehensible chanting noises)
The oompah-loompahs are from Roald Dahl's original book...the 1971 film alters the lyrics and sets it to music but is essentially the same concept...every time one of the children suffers their "deeply ironic" fate for some kind of misbehaviour, the oompah-loompahs punctuate the tradegy with a rhyme which explains the nature of their terrible misbehaviour...they provide the "moral", if you will...
The Simpsons thing was a "parody" of the 1971 film (and, by extension, of the book itself...but we can be sure that it's based on the film because, of course, the book didn't contain the actual music, which had to be invented for the 1971, so the melody gives away that it's from the Gene Wilder version)...well, actually, I thought it more a "reference" than a "parody", to get the terminology accurate, but essentially, yes, a joke based on the oompah-loompahs of the Wilder version...
Roald Dahl's original story also features the "oompah-loompahs"...and, no doubt, coming from the UK, the use of "oompah-loompah" here is originally from a "traditional" source...it's also to be found on "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles, in the phrase "oompah-loompah, stick it up yer joompah"...
Which, as far as I can determine, is a "traditional" rhyme in the UK (the Beatles use of "oompah-loompah, stick it up yer joompah" on their song is likely to be from the same "traditional" source that Roald Dahl borrowed from and not directly related)...
Where the "traditional" goes from, goodness knows...asking around with people older than myself as to where this "traditional" phrase might have originally come from, I found someone who thought it might - stress on "might" there - be something the "music hall" entertainer Charlie Chester might have said...as it was his "trademark" to have these short "stupid rhymes"...so, maybe it's something he said...maybe not...
Regardless, it's old and "traditional" here in the UK...and Lennon's and Dahl's use of this has now made it known world-wide...I think - as is supposed to be the case in both instances - that the point is that it's supposed to be a rather pointless and silly-sounding thing to say...
Beth :)
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