The daily pleasures that keep me free to live my best life each day.
Peter pan i found my marbles.
Unlike toodles a fictitious character my marbles can be lost or wasted but they can never be found.
Later in neverland thud butt gives peter a small bag containing tootles marbles revealing that they were his happy thoughts and he lost them literally rather than.
In peter pan who was it that said i ve lost my marbles.
A there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.
Upon finding his marbles he became more spontaneous and joyful over the fact that he hadn t really lost his marbles and he was a whole functioning person as he believed he once was.
Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant.
Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook.
Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.
Well i ve not lost but i think i ve misplaced my joy.
Is this the origin.
Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
After peter and his family arrive at wendy s house peter sees him crawling on the floor and he explains i ve lost my marbles which peter banning readily agrees with.
In this game of marbles you don t need to knuckle down and there are no keepsies.