Amanda Secrets
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Nonsensical and whimsical unimportant sayings and rhymes - what are yours?
Back home in the mother land lol I grew up with lots and lots of things that as a child seemed cool, but now I look or repeat and think - really!!!???
So Ill share couple of those I remember word for word ( tho Ill spare you the entirety lol)
The Jumblies -
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, “You’ll all be drowned!”
They called aloud, “Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!”
We can also add Jabbawocy -
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
more Lewis Carroll
In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.”
So what are your nonsensical verses or saying that just stick in your head ( probably not many to come from Gen Y or Z but bet all your fellow Baby boomers or X's know a few lol)
Back home in the mother land lol I grew up with lots and lots of things that as a child seemed cool, but now I look or repeat and think - really!!!???
So Ill share couple of those I remember word for word ( tho Ill spare you the entirety lol)
The Jumblies -
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, “You’ll all be drowned!”
They called aloud, “Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!”
We can also add Jabbawocy -
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
more Lewis Carroll
In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.”
So what are your nonsensical verses or saying that just stick in your head ( probably not many to come from Gen Y or Z but bet all your fellow Baby boomers or X's know a few lol)
