Playground Rhymes - possibly rude :) ?
November Soul
ones?
For example, there was one which started...
"My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
/-\ November Soul \-/
Wijnand Thompson
November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote:
> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> ones?
> For example, there was one which started...
> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
I never thought I would hear that again.
My son Billy had a ten-foot willy,
He showed it to the girl next door;
She thought it was a snake
and hit it with a rake,
And now it's only four-foot-four.
--
Wijnand
Peter Morris
November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> ones?
>
> For example, there was one which started...
>
> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
Mary had a little lamb, he thought him very silly
She threw him up into the air and caught him by his
Willy was a sheepdog lying in the grass
Down came a bumblebee and stang him on the
Ask no questions, tell no lies
I saw a policeman doing up his
Flies are a problem, wasps are worse
That is the end of my silly little verse.
November Soul
<pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>Mary had a little lamb, he thought him very silly
>She threw him up into the air and caught him by his
>Willy was a sheepdog lying in the grass
>Down came a bumblebee and stang him on the
>Ask no questions, tell no lies
>I saw a policeman doing up his
>Flies are a problem, wasps are worse
>That is the end of my silly little verse.
>
I like the way that the rude bits are worked in there :)
It reminds me of the old 'swearing without swearing' thing we used to
do as kids.
example:
one cough, two cough, three cough, four cough
(last one was the swearing bit)
and
four canal barges
Any more?
/-\ November Soul \-/
Susannah Smit
November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote in message
The version my children used to sing was:
Mary had a little lamb
And it was always grunting*
They tied it to a five-bar gate
And kicked its little c..t in.
* grunting = farting
November Soul
<S...@cable.A2000.nl> wrote:
>The version my children used to sing was:
>Mary had a little lamb
>And it was always grunting*
>They tied it to a five-bar gate
>And kicked its little c..t in.
>
>* grunting = farting
>
As a variation on that, we used to sing
Mary had a little lamb
She took it to a wedding
She tied it to the table leg
And kicked it's [flipping] head in.
Hmmm... that's started me off a bit now, anyone remember any of
'The boy stood on the burning deck..' ones?
I'll start you off...
The boy stood on the burning deck
having a game of cricket
the ball rolled up his trouser leg
and hit his 'middle wicket'
/-\ November Soul \-/
Matthew M. Huntbach
> Hmmm... that's started me off a bit now, anyone remember any of
> 'The boy stood on the burning deck..' ones?
The funny thing about these is that kids continue(d?) to say them long
after the original poem had stopped being used in schools. I guess the
original was once a common school recitation, but how long ago would it
have been? Before my time for sure, though I remember the parodies.
It shows how kids so love rhyme and rhythm that they continued with the
parodies, because of the rhythm of the initial line, long after they
has lost any contact with its original context.
Matthew Huntbach
John Hall
November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> writes:
>Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
>ones?
Was there any other sort?
--
John Hall
"Sir, I have found you an argument;
but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Peter Morris
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>
> November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:02:30 -0000, "Peter Morris"
> > <pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >Mary had a little lamb, he thought him very silly
> > >She threw him up into the air and caught him by his
> > >Willy was a sheepdog lying in the grass
> > >Down came a bumblebee and stang him on the
> > >Ask no questions, tell no lies
> > >I saw a policeman doing up his
> > >Flies are a problem, wasps are worse
> > >That is the end of my silly little verse.
> > >
> >
> > I like the way that the rude bits are worked in there :)
> > It reminds me of the old 'swearing without swearing' thing we used to
> > do as kids.
> > example:
> > one cough, two cough, three cough, four cough
> > (last one was the swearing bit)
> >
> > and
> > four canal barges
> >
> > Any more?
> > /-\ November Soul \-/
>
> Mary had a little lamb
> And it was always grunting*
> They tied it to a five-bar gate
> And kicked its little c..t in.
>
> * grunting = farting
Mary had a little lamb
it used to leap so high
it lept into a butchers shop
and now it's mutton pie
John Hall
There was a husband and wife team, by the name of Opie IIRC, who devoted
their lives to recording and tracing the origins of children's rhymes
and songs. They found that some could be traced back hundreds of years,
even though they had been passed on orally from one generation of
children to the next and had rarely if ever been written down.
Richard Bates
message appeared from No...@SoulTaker.com (November Soul) saying:
>Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
>ones?
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candle stick.
Silly boy should have jumped higher
Goodness gracious: Great balls of fire.
Love and hugs from Rich. xxx
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James Farrar
wrote:
> I like the way that the rude bits are worked in there :)
> It reminds me of the old 'swearing without swearing' thing we used to
> do as kids.
> example:
> one cough, two cough, three cough, four cough
> (last one was the swearing bit)
Not swearing, but we had "I one a spider"...
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George van den Driessche
I don't know if this favourite of mine was ever uttered in the playground:
Yesterday, upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish to God he'd go away.
Or the variant:
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a girl who didn't care
She didn't care again today
I like them when they get that way.
Maybe they're a little too absurd or ostensibly polite for the playground.
As I was sitting on a chair
I noticed that its legs weren't there
Nor seat, nor back - but I just sat
Ignoring little things like that.
--
George van den Driessche
<gr...@bigfoot.com>
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> In article <38423dd0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> > ones?
>
> > For example, there was one which started...
>
> > "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
Annabel Smyth
>The boy stood on the burning deck
>having a game of cricket
>the ball rolled up his trouser leg
>and hit his 'middle wicket'
>
The boy stood on the burning deck
His feet were covered in blisters.
He'd burnt the socks right off his feet
And had to wear his sister's.
Going back to the "not swearing" ones, I could never understand why
my grandmother took such glee in reciting:
Mary had jam, Mary had jelly
Mary came home with a pain in her (ahem).
Don't be mistaken, don't be misled,
Mary came home with a pain in her head.
"Belly" was apparently a Frightfully Rude Word when my
grandmother (born 1896) was a little girl. The version I learnt, sixty-
something years later, went:
High in the mountains, in the long grass,
Down came the elephant, sliding on his ****,
Don't be mistaken, don't be misled,
Down came the elephant, sliding on his head.
--
Annabel Smyth mailto:Ann...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 28 November 1999
Annabel Smyth
>Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
>ones?
>
>For example, there was one which started...
>
>"My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
No, no, that was BUFFALO Billy. I well remember embarrassing my
mother frightfully when I was about ten, I suppose, and my brother
about 7 by chanting it very loudly indeed all the way home in the car
one day.....
Buffalo Billy had a ten foot willy,
He showed it to the girl next door.
She thought it was a snake, and hit it with a rake,
And now it's only five foot four!
One of my brother's school friends, when asked by visiting relations
to recite a poem he had learnt at school, came up with:
In 1962
The dirty kangaroo
He went behind the dust-bin
To do his number two!
(You can substitute 1972, 1982 or even 1992 if you are a different
generation!).
And my cousin, when aged about five, could hardly tell me the
following he was laughing so much (I was a kind elder cousin, and
didn't tell him I already knew it):
We three kings of Leicester Square
Selling tights at tuppence a pair.
Oh how drastic, no elastic,
Not very safe to wear.
Actually, at school we had several parodies of that particular carol,
including:
We three kings of Orient are
Trying to smoke a rubber cigar.
It was loaded, and exploded -
BANG!
And
We four Beatles of Liverpool are,
John on a moped, Paul in a car,
George on a scooter, blowing his hooter,
Following Ringo Starr.
(And I wonder how many of the younger ones have absolutely no
idea what that one was all about!)
John Hall
George van den Driessche <gr...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>Or the variant:
>
>Yesterday upon the stair
>I met a girl who didn't care
>She didn't care again today
>I like them when they get that way.
>
>Maybe they're a little too absurd or ostensibly polite for the playground.
I think you are right with the one above. I have an idea it's by Ogden
Nash.
Annabel Smyth
>The funny thing about these is that kids continue(d?) to say them long
>after the original poem had stopped being used in schools. I guess the
>original was once a common school recitation, but how long ago would it
>have been? Before my time for sure, though I remember the parodies.
>
Nancy and Peggy Blackett have to recite it in "Swallowdale", which I
think is late 1920s/early 1930s.
>It shows how kids so love rhyme and rhythm that they continued with the
>parodies, because of the rhythm of the initial line, long after they
>has lost any contact with its original context.
>
But then, it's poems with a really terrific rhythm that stick in the
memory: "Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn
strode....." Or much of Lewis Carroll.
Nightjar
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> ...
> Nancy and Peggy Blackett have to recite it in "Swallowdale", which I
> think is late 1920s/early 1930s.
I think the poem relates to a Midshipman who earned a posthumous
Victoria Cross for keeping a gun firing during a First World War naval
action.
Colin Bignell
Molly
<S...@cable.A2000.nl> writes
>
>Mary had a little lamb
>And it was always grunting*
>They tied it to a five-bar gate
>And kicked its little c..t in.
>
>* grunting = farting
>
Mary had a little lamb
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb went too, of course.
I wish I was a little grub
With whiskers round my tummy.
I'd climb into the honeyjar
And make my tummy gummy.
I wish I was a caterpillar;
Life would be a farce.
I'd climb up all the little trees
And slide down on my hands and knees.
--
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Gordon Harris
<No...@SoulTaker.com> writes
> anyone remember any of
>'The boy stood on the burning deck..' ones?
>I'll start you off...
>
The boy stood on the burning deck
When all the rest had fled.
And when his feet were burned away
He stood upon his head.
--
Gordon
Kath Collman
<nws_...@jhall.co.uk> writes
>There was a husband and wife team, by the name of Opie IIRC, who devoted
>their lives to recording and tracing the origins of children's rhymes
>and songs. They found that some could be traced back hundreds of years,
>even though they had been passed on orally from one generation of
>children to the next and had rarely if ever been written down.
Yes, and fascinating it was to read. We had a copy of their book, "The
lore and language of schoolchildren", which fell apart after much
perusing ... and AFAIK is now out of print :-(
Harking back many decades to when I was in primary school, I can
remember us singing (at Christmastime of course) :
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
All seated on their pots
The angel of the Lord came down
And said "You clumsy clots!"
There were also, of course, many many versions of "We three Kings of
Orient are", including one in the Sixties beginning "We four Beatles of
Liverpool are" .... I think I'm showing my age here. I'll get my coat.
--
Kath Collman
Anne Chambers
And everywhere that Mary went
We thought that was very daring!
Anne
George van den Driessche
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> Liverpool are" .... I think I'm showing my age here. I'll get my coat.
> --
> Kath Collman
That's the second instance of coat-fetching I've observed in two days in
this group :)
--
George van den Driessche
> In 1962
> The dirty kangaroo
> He went behind the dust-bin
> To do his number two!
>
> (You can substitute 1972, 1982 or even 1992 if you are a different
> generation!).
In 1986
The Queen pulled down her knicks
She licked her bum and told her mum
"It tastes like Weetabix."
I've /no/ idea who produced that one :)
John B
<nigh...@pavilion.co.uk> writes
>> ...
>> Nancy and Peggy Blackett have to recite it in "Swallowdale", which I
>> think is late 1920s/early 1930s.
As required by the dreaded ancient Great Aunt.
>I think the poem relates to a Midshipman who earned a posthumous
>Victoria Cross for keeping a gun firing during a First World War naval
>action.
<pedant mode>
You must be thinking of Jack Cornwell, boy seaman in HMS Chester,
battle of Jutland.
But the poem (The boy stood on the burning deck) is called "Casabianca"
and is *much* earlier. The boy was the son of the master of a sailing
ship.
--
John B j...@avism.demon.co.uk
c o jones
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The boy stood on the burning deck
His feet all covered in blisters
The flames reached up and burned his pants
and now he wears his sister's
coj's daughter aged 8
November Soul
<gr...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>In 1986
>The Queen pulled down her knicks
>She licked her bum and told her mum
>"It tastes like Weetabix."
>
>I've /no/ idea who produced that one :)
ROFL!
Back on the subject of 'hidden swearing' I just remebered the
reference to a defecating parrot we used to dare each other to say:
"Polish it on the table."
:)
/-\ November Soul \-/
Matthew M. Huntbach
> But then, it's poems with a really terrific rhythm that stick in the
> memory: "Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn
> strode....." Or much of Lewis Carroll.
Yes - I once found I could recite the whole of Jabberwocky without ever
having consciously learnt it.
Matthew Huntbach
Peter Morris
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> Kath Collman <ka...@hwthwood.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Liverpool are" .... I think I'm showing my age here. I'll get my coat.
> > --
> > Kath Collman
>
> That's the second instance of coat-fetching I've observed in two days in
> this group :)
>
> --
> <gr...@bigfoot.com>
I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
TV comedy.
You can also expect to see 'Aren't split infinitives brilliant'
and 'Scortchio'
Gordon Harris
<ann...@camtech.net.au> writes
>Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
It's feet were black as soot
And into Mary's bread and jam
It's sooty foot it put.
--
Gordon
Gordon Harris
<dro...@walhall.screaming.net> writes
>
> My son Billy had a ten-foot willy,
> He showed it to the girl next door;
> She thought it was a snake
>
I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all me life.
It makes the peas taste funny
but it keeps 'em on the knife.
--
Gordon
Gordon Harris
<pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes
>
>
>I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
>be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
>TV comedy.
>
usenet.
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Gordon Harris
<da...@sticky.co.uk> writes
>On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:56:09 +0000, Gordon Harris
><Gor...@g3snx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <3843a...@london.netkonect.net>, Peter Morris
>><pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes
>>>
>>>
>>>I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
>>>be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
>>>TV comedy.
>>>
>>Which one? Not one that I watch, I picked up the expression from
>>usenet.
>
>The Fast Show.
>
--
Gordon
John Davies
<j...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes[...]
>>I think the poem relates to a Midshipman who earned a posthumous
>>Victoria Cross for keeping a gun firing during a First World War naval
>>action.
><pedant mode>
>You must be thinking of Jack Cornwell, boy seaman in HMS Chester,
>battle of Jutland.
>But the poem (The boy stood on the burning deck) is called "Casabianca"
>and is *much* earlier. The boy was the son of the master of a sailing
>ship.
>
The Boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
The version I remember from the 1940s went:
The Boy stood on the burning deck
Picking his nose like mad
He rolled it up in little balls
And flicked them at his dad.
God knows why this particular poem should have inspired so much childish
parody. Perhaps originally because it was one of those improving and
character-forming verses that it was thought desirable children should
be made to learn. The simple rhythm and rhyme-scheme makes it a pretty
easy target, of course.
I was unaware until I checked the attribution just now that Mrs Hemans
also wrote the original on which a much more distinguished parody was
based:
The stately homes of England
How beautiful they stand!
-- which were of course the opening lines of a very funny song by Noel
Coward, in which my favourite verse goes:
Tho' the pipes that supply the bathroom burst
And the lavatory makes you fear the worst,
It was used by Charles the First
Quite informally
And later by George the Fourth
On a journey north.
--
John Davies (jo...@redwoods.demon.co.uk)
George van den Driessche
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> I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
> be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
> TV comedy.
>
> and 'Scortchio'
I'm sorry, I've just come.
George van den Driessche
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Richard Rose
Richard Rose
> The Boy stood on the burning deck
> Picking his nose like mad
> He rolled it up in little balls
> And flicked them at his dad.
And then of course, there are the other versions..
The boy stood on the burning deck
Eating some cream crackers
A flame shot up his trouser leg
and burnt of both his knackers.
rik.
c o jones
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> Peter Morris <pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3843a...@london.netkonect.net
> > I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
> > be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
> > TV comedy.
> >
> > You can also expect to see 'Aren't split infinitives brilliant'
> > and 'Scortchio'
>
> I'm sorry, I've just come.
which was nice.
coj
Susannah Smit
> In article <3843a...@london.netkonect.net>, Peter Morris
> <pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes
> >
> >
> >be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
> >TV comedy.
> >
> usenet.
> Gordon
I would have said, 'Hand me my hat and pants, the party's getting rough.'
Sue
Susannah Smit
>
> > In 1962
> > The dirty kangaroo
> > He went behind the dust-bin
> > To do his number two!
> >
> > (You can substitute 1972, 1982 or even 1992 if you are a different
> > generation!).
>
> The Queen pulled down her knicks
> She licked her bum and told her mum
> "It tastes like Weetabix."
>
> I've /no/ idea who produced that one :)
>
We used to chant:
Red, white and blue
Dirty kangaroo
Went behind the dustbin
To do his number two
...and think we were terribly naughty!
Sue
>
>
>
>
JMI
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>
>Susannah Smit <S...@cable.A2000.nl> wrote in message
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>>
>> November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote in message
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>> > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:02:30 -0000, "Peter Morris"
>> > <pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > >Mary had a little lamb, he thought him very silly
>> > >She threw him up into the air and caught him by his
>> > >Willy was a sheepdog lying in the grass
>> > >Down came a bumblebee and stang him on the
>> > >Ask no questions, tell no lies
>> > >I saw a policeman doing up his
>> > >Flies are a problem, wasps are worse
>> > >That is the end of my silly little verse.
>> > >
>> >
>> > I like the way that the rude bits are worked in there :)
>> > It reminds me of the old 'swearing without swearing' thing we used to
>> > do as kids.
>> > example:
>> > one cough, two cough, three cough, four cough
>> > (last one was the swearing bit)
>> >
>> > and
>> > four canal barges
>> >
>> > Any more?
>> > /-\ November Soul \-/
>>
>> The version my children used to sing was:
>> Mary had a little lamb
>> They tied it to a five-bar gate
>> And kicked its little c..t in.
>>
>> * grunting = farting
>
>it lept into a butchers shop
>and now it's mutton pie
>
Mary had a little lamb
I've often seen Mary's little lamb
But I've never seen her bear.
JMI
Gordon Harris wrote in message ...
>In article <38447259...@news.demon.co.uk>, November Soul
><No...@SoulTaker.com> writes
>
>> anyone remember any of
>>'The boy stood on the burning deck..' ones?
>>I'll start you off...
>>
>And when his feet were burned away
>He stood upon his head.
>--
>Gordon
The boy stood on the burning deck
Shelling peas a penny a peck
Did he wash his dirty neck
Did he heck?
Don't know why I remember that one.
jingles
Paul-U
<fire...@bits.bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>George van den Driessche <gr...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> arg ...
>"arg"?
argot?
One of favourites from our school:
From a mirror tied to a ceiling,
A delectable damsel of Ealing
saw certain sights,
which enhanced the delights
of the things she was hitherto feeling.
The sex and adjectives may be changed as appropriate - don't
suppose we really understood it when we first heard it.
--
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Richard Rose
>> > I dont know what country you're posting from, but you might not
>> > be aware that 'Ill get my coat' is a catchprase from a British
>> > TV comedy.
>> >
>> > You can also expect to see 'Aren't split infinitives brilliant'
>> > and 'Scortchio'
>>
>> I'm sorry, I've just come.
> which was nice.
And coj quoted from our program again ...
(cue coj ;-)# )
rik. Yes. I have a goatee like my smiley. See other discussion.
c o jones
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creep into conversation in England, but people who have never seen the
program(me) may get confused if they don't know of them
The Fast Show has been on the air in Australia and the US (where it's called
"brilliant" ), but I don't know where else ?
coj
This week I are mostly been writing to uk.culture.language.english
Annabel Smyth
>The Fast show had a web site with all of their catch phrases. They seem to
>creep into conversation in England, but people who have never seen the
>program(me) may get confused if they don't know of them
Do you have a url for the website? I very seldom watch the show
(make that never if I can possibly avoid it!), but, as you say, the
catchphrases do enter the language.....
--
Annabel Smyth mailto:Ann...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 28 November 1999
c o jones
This one has most of the catchphrases
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2694/catch.html
This site is written in the "Channel 9" language
http://www.comedyzone.beeb.com/comedy/bestof/features/fastshow/fastshow_home
.html
Boutros, Boutros Ghali
coj
Philip Eden
c o jones wrote in message <82489j$jmd$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>> (make that never if I can possibly avoid it!), but, as you say, the
>> catchphrases do enter the language.....
>> --
>> Annabel Smyth
>
>
>
>
Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
else do the others.
PhilipE
leo
<oph...@labyrinth.net.au> writes
>>
>>Mary had a little lamb
>>it used to leap so high
>>it lept into a butchers shop
>>and now it's mutton pie
>>
>Mary had a little lamb
>She also had a bear
>I've often seen Mary's little lamb
>But I've never seen her bear.
>
Mary had a porcupine
And left it on a chair
She said 'They're only little pricks
I hardly know they're there'
She had another beast, a skunk
She stole it from a zoo.
She told me that it came from Greece
Or was it just 'Cor, phew!'
Of course, her midget elephant
Gave trouble more than most
It never could make decent tea
And often burnt the toast
--
leo
John Dawson
<phi...@weather.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
>of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
>consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
>I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
>else do the others.
Here's a few, including some hyphenated, some requiring to be plural,
and some adopted foreign ones.
bergschrund
borschts
catch-phrase
crwths
eschscholtzia
eschscholzia
festschrift
festschriften
first-strike
Houyhnhnms
Knightsbridge
latch-string
lengthsman
Nachschlag
night-school
quartz-schist
sightscreen
watch-spring
watchstrap
Weltschmerz
John D.
Wijnand Thompson
John Dawson <jo...@jondaw.screaming.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:52:34 -0000, "Philip Eden"
> <phi...@weather.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
> >of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
> >consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
> >I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
> >else do the others.
> Here's a few, including some hyphenated, some requiring to be plural,
> and some adopted foreign ones.
> ...
> crwths
> ...
Of Welsh origin. Fully adopted
or not, the 'w' is still a vowel.
--
Wijnand
James Farrar
<jo...@jondaw.screaming.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:52:34 -0000, "Philip Eden"
> <phi...@weather.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
> >of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
> >consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
> >I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
> >else do the others.
>
> Here's a few, including some hyphenated, some requiring to be plural,
> and some adopted foreign ones.
So, in fact, all the "English native" ones are two words, contracted
into one, but all hyphenable[0]. Exception, of course, is the Knights'
Bridge. ;)
[0] is that a word?
> catch-phrase
> first-strike
> Knightsbridge
> latch-string
> lengthsman
> night-school
> sightscreen
> watch-spring
> watchstrap
--
James Farrar --- the Streatham Hatter --- QMW-ite
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar // Downloadin'
pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar // And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead
AOL-er ["It's all about the Pentiums", "Weird Al" Yankovic 1999]
George van den Driessche
news:38461a95....@news.freeserve.co.uk...
> So, in fact, all the "English native" ones are two words, contracted
> into one, but all hyphenable[0]. Exception, of course, is the Knights'
> Bridge. ;)
>
> [0] is that a word?
If not, it ought to be. It's certainly legitimately formed, and is more
appealing than "hyphenatable" IMHO.
But then I reckon that gymnasts indulge in gymnasm, which for some reason
tends to make people smirk. Might have to do with the "-asm" suffix.
--
James Farrar
<gr...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> James Farrar <ja...@sfgiants22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:38461a95....@news.freeserve.co.uk...
> > So, in fact, all the "English native" ones are two words, contracted
> > into one, but all hyphenable[0]. Exception, of course, is the Knights'
> > Bridge. ;)
> >
> > [0] is that a word?
>
> If not, it ought to be. It's certainly legitimately formed, and is more
> appealing than "hyphenatable" IMHO.
I claim royalties!!!! ;)
Matti Lamprhey
news:825t1s$miu$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk...
> James Farrar <ja...@sfgiants22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:38461a95....@news.freeserve.co.uk...
> > So, in fact, all the "English native" ones are two words, contracted
> > into one, but all hyphenable[0]. Exception, of course, is the Knights'
> > Bridge. ;)
> >
> > [0] is that a word?
>
> If not, it ought to be. It's certainly legitimately formed, and is more
> appealing than "hyphenatable" IMHO.
>
> tends to make people smirk. Might have to do with the "-asm" suffix.
...or the fact that gymno... implies nakedness?
Matti
Annabel Smyth
>
>This one has most of the catchphrases
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2694/catch.html
>
>
>This site is written in the "Channel 9" language
>http://www.comedyzone.beeb.com/comedy/bestof/features/fastshow/fa
>stshow_home
>.html
>
Thanks.
Annabel Smyth
>Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
>of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
>consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
>I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
>else do the others.
>
I actually noticed this when I was writing my post! And meant to
start a new thread about them, but forgot. The other ones I know of
are "watchstrap" (6 consonants) and "Knightsbridge" (7).
(But I still can't remember what the third word ending in "-gry" is!)
Annabel Smyth
>Mary had a little lamb
>She also had a bear
>I've often seen Mary's little lamb
>But I've never seen her bear.
>
Mary had a little bear
To it she was so kind
That everywhere that Mary went
You saw her bear - running along beside her.
Mary had a little lamb -
The doctor nearly fainted!
c o jones
> In a message on Wed, 1 Dec 1999, c o jones wrote:
>
> >
> >This one has most of the catchphrases
> >http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2694/catch.html
> >
> >
> >This site is written in the "Channel 9" language
> >http://www.comedyzone.beeb.com/comedy/bestof/features/fastshow/fa
> >stshow_home
> >.html
> >
> Thanks.
> --
> Annabel Smyth
No problem. Try and watch it (I think it's on Monday night @ 10 pm at the
moment if you are in the uk ?). You might like it. My favourites are Ron
Manager, Channel 9, The Welsh "Doctor" and unlucky Alf.
The one that makes me cringe is the lady who says "What did I say Roy ?".
I saw an interview with Paul Whitehouse who said that nearly all the
characters are based on real people. I wonder who Colin "I'm a alien" Hunt
was ?
coj
c o jones
> In a message on Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Philip Eden wrote:
>
> >Let me be the first to remind everyone that 'catchphrase' is one
> >of those rare words in English containing six consecutive
> >consonants. (That's not counting 'y' when it is used as a vowel).
> >I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. I'll let someone
> >else do the others.
> >
> I actually noticed this when I was writing my post! And meant to
> start a new thread about them, but forgot. The other ones I know of
> are "watchstrap" (6 consonants) and "Knightsbridge" (7).
>
> (But I still can't remember what the third word ending in "-gry" is!)
> --
> Annabel Smyth
I can think of angry and hungry. Can anyone help with the third ?
coj
BTW, I make Knightsbridge only 6
Sky Rider
> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> ones?
>
> For example, there was one which started...
>
> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
aaaaggghhhh............
I NEED these..... and as many more as you can dredge up... also any slang
you used in school and/or college.....
PLEASE... ... ??
either send it off to me by e-mail, or visit the Online Dictionary of
Playground Slang (http://odps.cyberscriber.com) and send it via the form,
or even drop it into the related newsgroup free.odps....
I collect this stuff for future generations to marvel at!!
--
Sky Rider
OD...@cyberscriber.com
----------------------------------
Add *YOUR* favourites to the Online Dictionary of Playground Slang
http://ODPS.CyberScriber.com
----------------------------------
Matti Lamprhey
news:tL0kvuA9...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk...
> (But I still can't remember what the third word ending in "-gry" is!)
The FAQ for alt.usage.english may be worth a link -- here's where it was
last spotted:
http://go.to/aue
In it you will find a section _words ending in "-gry"_ which includes a list
of 100 of the little darlings.
Matti
Chris Croughton
<ja...@sfgiants22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>I claim royalties!!!! ;)
Monarchist! <g>
ObUCLE: Why are payments on copyright etc. called 'royalties'?
Chris C
James Farrar
wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:39:16 GMT, James Farrar
> <ja...@sfgiants22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >I claim royalties!!!! ;)
>
> Monarchist! <g>
Absolutely.
Annabel Smyth
Thanks. I hoped someone would know where the FAQ was kept.
John Davies
<OD...@cyberscriber.com> writes
>> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
>> ones?
>>
>> For example, there was one which started...
>>
>> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
>aaaaggghhhh............
>
>I NEED these..... and as many more as you can dredge up... also any slang
>you used in school and/or college.....
>
>PLEASE... ... ??
Have a look at:
Iona & Peter OPIE. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. OUP,
1959 (pbk 1967).
I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that 90% of what the Opies
reported is still in use: children's sayings and slang have
extraordinary longevity, as I am re-discovering now that my
granddaughter has started school.
It will also give you some idea of the extraordinary amount of work you
will need to do if you're serious about recording more recent additions
to children's lore and language.
--
John Davies (jo...@redwoods.demon.co.uk)
Richard Rose
> Mary had a little lamb -
> The doctor nearly fainted!
Mary had a little lamb.
She passed her plate and had some more.
In the same vein:
Mary had a little lamb.
And some mint sauce.
In a completely different, yet startlingly close vein:
Mary had a little lamb
The doctor was surprised,
but when Old MacDonald had a farm,
he couldn't believe his eyes.
rik.
Richard Rose
> I actually noticed this when I was writing my post! And meant to
> start a new thread about them, but forgot. The other ones I know of
> are "watchstrap" (6 consonants) and "Knightsbridge" (7).
Am I the only one to have spotted that, or has "I" been a consonant for
long? Even if it was a consonant, that would make it 8.
rik.
Jenny Wenham
>I've often seen Mary's little lamb
>But I've never seen her bear.
>
And in her bed she let it sleep
She did not know it was a ram
Till Mary had a little lamb.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggy a bone
When she bent over, old Rover he drover 'er
And gave her a bone of his own.
Shall I continue, there's plenty more?
Jenny
Annabel Smyth
No, you aren't the only one to have spotted it. I can't count, is the
problem!
--
Annabel Smyth mailto:Ann...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 5 December 1999
Wijnand Thompson
John Hall <nws_...@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <81uc74$59o$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
> George van den Driessche <gr...@bigfoot.com> writes:
> >Or the variant:
> >
> >Yesterday upon the stair
> >I met a girl who didn't care
> >She didn't care again today
> >I like them when they get that way.
> >
> >Maybe they're a little too absurd or ostensibly polite for the playground.
> I think you are right with the one above. I have an idea it's by Ogden
> Nash.
You're probably right; but it
still reminds me of Max Miller.
--
Wijnand
Wijnand Thompson
Peter Morris <pmo...@cromwellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote in message
> news:38423dd0...@news.demon.co.uk...
> > Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> > ones?
> >
> > For example, there was one which started...
> >
> > "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
> Mary had a little lamb, he thought him very silly
> She threw him up into the air and caught him by his
> Willy was a sheepdog lying in the grass
> Down came a bumblebee and stang him on the
> Ask no questions, tell no lies
> I saw a policeman doing up his
> Flies are a problem, wasps are worse
> That is the end of my silly little verse.
Reminds me of the single 'Sixpence' by Max Romeo.
--
Wijnand
Wijnand Thompson
George van den Driessche <gr...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Well when that happened to my /friend/ Billy it was five foot four ...
I prefer the alliteration of 'four-foot-four'.
> I don't know if this favourite of mine was ever uttered in the playground:
I was in one of the ones I used.
> Yesterday, upon the stair
> I met a man who wasn't there
> He wasn't there again today
> I wish to God he'd go away.
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns, Psychoed.
> Wijnand Thompson <dro...@walhall.screaming.net> wrote in message
> news:49687fe1...@walhall.screaming.net...
> > In article <38423dd0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
> > November Soul <No...@SoulTaker.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> > > ones?
> >
> > > For example, there was one which started...
> >
> > > "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
> >
> > I never thought I would hear that again.
> >
> > My son Billy had a ten-foot willy,
> > He showed it to the girl next door;
> > She thought it was a snake
> > and hit it with a rake,
> > And now it's only four-foot-four.
--
Wijnand
Richard Rose
>> >I met a girl who didn't care
>> >She didn't care again today
>> >I like them when they get that way.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
He must be from the NSA.
Did I hear it in the X Files once?
rik.
Gordon Harris
<ann...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk> writes
>In a message on Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Richard Rose wrote:
>
>>Annabel Smyth <ann...@amsmyth.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I actually noticed this when I was writing my post! And meant to
>>> start a new thread about them, but forgot. The other ones I know of
>>> are "watchstrap" (6 consonants) and "Knightsbridge" (7).
>> 123456
>>
>>Am I the only one to have spotted that, or has "I" been a consonant for
>>long? Even if it was a consonant, that would make it 8.
>>
>No, you aren't the only one to have spotted it. I can't count, is the
>problem!
Literate but not numerate? What shame, you might have had the
Countdown job instead of Carol Vauderman (sp?). <Duckandrun>
--
Gordon
Sky Rider
> >PLEASE... ... ??
>
> Have a look at:
>
> Iona & Peter OPIE. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. OUP,
> 1959 (pbk 1967).
gotta find find it first.... I'm in Australia :((
any chance of a url or a ISBN number maybe??
> I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that 90% of what the Opies
> reported is still in use: children's sayings and slang have
> extraordinary longevity, as I am re-discovering now that my
> granddaughter has started school.
>
> It will also give you some idea of the extraordinary amount of work you
> will need to do if you're serious about recording more recent additions
> to children's lore and language.
We all have to start somewhere..... :))
..... these rhymes will help....!
Ruth Bygrave
>> > and 'Scortchio'
>>
>> I'm sorry, I've just come.
>
>which was nice.
>
but you ent seen me...roit?
Cheers, \/\/oof
Gordon Harris
<fire...@bits.bris.ac.uk> writes
>
>Yesterday, upon the stair,
>I met a man who wasn't there.
>He wasn't there again today.
>He must be from the NSA.
>
>
>Did I hear it in the X Files once?
>
--
Gordon
Mike Fleming
<Gor...@g3snx.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Sounds Milliganesque to me . . .
Ah, Milligan...
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled
Twit.
Sky Rider
> Shall I continue, there's plenty more?
yes please......
leahmai...@gmail.com
> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> ones?
>
> For example, there was one which started...
>
> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
>
How many crows can you pick from your nose in an English country garden?
I don't know but I'll have a f*cking go in an English country garden
What do you do if you can't find a loo in an English country garden?
Pull down your pants and exterminate the ants in an English country garden
Asha Santon
> On Monday, 29 November 1999 08:00:00 UTC, November Soul wrote:
>> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
>> ones?
>>
>> For example, there was one which started...
>>
>> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>>
>>
>> /-\ November Soul \-/
>
> How many crows can you pick from your nose in an English country garden?
> I don't know but I'll have a f*cking go in an English country garden
places containing children aged 5 to 11.
> What do you do if you can't find a loo in an English country garden?
> Pull down your pants and exterminate the ants in an English country garden
'exterminate' from the Daleks.
--
Asha
nature.opcop.org.uk
Scotland
jack_na...@hotmail.com
trying to sell ladies' underwear.
They're fantastic. No elastic!
Just twenty-five cents a pair.
John Hall
jack_na...@hotmail.com writes
popular with children. From the "cents" I take it that it's an American
rhyme, but when I was a boy we had one very similar in the UK.
--
John Hall
"One can certainly imagine the myriad of uses
for a hand-held iguana maker"
Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher!)
Asha Santon
> In message <7a73867d-a544-409e...@googlegroups.com>,
> jack_na...@hotmail.com writes
>> We three King's of Butternut Square,
>> trying to sell ladies' underwear.
>> They're fantastic. No elastic!
>> Just twenty-five cents a pair.
>
> I don't think that's rude, though it's close enough to explain its
> being popular with children. From the "cents" I take it that it's an
> American rhyme, but when I was a boy we had one very similar in the UK.
But Mary lives near Hinkley Point
and her lamb began to glow
(in my childhood, she lived near Sellafield but one must try to stay
up-tp-date)
--
Asha
http://minnies.opcop.org.uk/food/home-grown.htm
Scotland
Molly Mockford
in <ntqb21$otd$1...@dont-email.me>:
>Mary had a little lamb
>Its fleece was white as snow
>But Mary lives near Hinkley Point
>and her lamb began to glow
Mary had a little lamb
And everywhere that Mary went
That lamb went too, of course.
--
Molly Mockford
Nature loves variety. Unfortunately, society hates it. (Milton Diamond Ph.D.)
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
Asha Santon
> At 11:12:34 on Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Asha Santon <as...@santon.invalid>
> wrote in <ntqb21$otd$1...@dont-email.me>:
>
>> Mary had a little lamb
>> Its fleece was white as snow
>> But Mary lives near Hinkley Point
>> and her lamb began to glow
>
> Mary had a little lamb
> She ate it with mint sauce
> And everywhere that Mary went
> That lamb went too, of course.
to fetch their pale-eyed daughter
Jacques fell down and broke its crown
and Gilles came tumbling after
--
Asha
http://minnies.opcop.org.uk/marylamb.htm
Scotland
janet...@yahoo.co.uk
A boy stood on a burning deck
His face all covered in blisters
He stuck his finger up his arse
And the others up his sisters
A boy stood on a burning deck
His face all covered in charcoal
He put his head between his legs
And whistled up his arsehole
vic...@outlook.com
A man from Poole had a red ring on his tool, he went to the clinic the doctor the cynic said "it's only lipstick you fool".
This is the sad story on a man who could never satisfy his wife, he got himself a brick of steel stuck it on a great big wheel two brass balls he filled with cream and the the whole frigin dish was driven by steam, roll it through the bedroom door and started it up with a great big roar, rolled over to his wife and climbed on top and pumped in cream til she cried out STOP, now we come to the tragic bit there was no way of stopping it poor wife split from ass to tit and the whole frigin thing was covered in shit.
I can tell be the smell your misses isn't well..... can't remember any more?
Johnny sitting on the grass up jumped a bully ant and bit him on his ask no questions tell no lies I saw a fisherman doing up his flies are bad but Mosquitos are worse this is the end of my silly little verse.
vic...@outlook.com
Dinna Dinna show us your legs way above your knees.....
Red white and blue the girls took you to the picture show and undress you
Here comes the bride big fat and wide slipped on a banana skin and went for a ride.
tho...@gmail.com
My old man's a postman,
He wears a postmans hat,
He farted through the keyhole
And paralysed the cat.
The dog couldn't stand it,
The kitchen fell apart,
All because of the postman,
With the supersonic fart!
mrric...@gmail.com
> Does anyone remeber any good playground rhymes, particularly rude-ish
> ones?
>
> For example, there was one which started...
>
> "My son Billy, had a 10 foot ...."
>
>
> /-\ November Soul \-/
John Hall
mrric...@gmail.com writes
it.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)