“Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
The children's joke Pete and Repeat.
Ghost Hunters
“Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.”
— P. J. O'Rourke, book Holidays in Hell
Holidays in Hell (1989)
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Variant: There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do.