Rodney Dangerfield: Poor Boys Playthings
on Wednesday, March 23, 2011Funny Money Quotes: The more we have to occupy our time and energy, the less likely we are to need pointless distractions to keep us busy. Rodney Dangerfield said:
“I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with” — Rodney Dangerfield
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In this quote, Rodney Dangerfield is using his signature self-deprecating humor to joke about how poor his family was when he was growing up. The humor comes from the double meaning of “playing with” – as a child playing with toys, and an adult playing with or being intimate with a partner.
So he’s saying if he hadn’t been born a boy, he wouldn’t have even had any toys to play with as a child because his family had so little.
Birthday: November 22, 1921 – Death: October 5, 2004