Call Ralph on the big white phone
I was reading this article when I came across an expression I had never heard before (emphasis mine):
Reversal of fortune. Elvis has left the building. Refunding. Toss your cookies. Call Ralph on the big white phone. Puke.
I thought it was pretty funny and strange. What a strange saying. “Call Ralph on the big white phone?” I like it.
I guess it has to do with the fact that when you vomit it sometimes sounds like you are saying “Ralph.” But I don’t think it does, really. And I guess the “big white phone” is really the toilet? I never really thought of the toilet as a phone.
At some point someone must have thought that vomiting into a toilet seemed somewhat similar to if you were calling a guy named Ralph on a giant white porcelain telephone sitting on the floor.
In one of the Harry Potter movies, one guy is comforting the other (who is vomiting) and says, “better out than in.” I like that one, too.
