The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21373 Message #1380408
Posted By: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
17-Jan-05 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Quartermaster's Stores
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Quartermaster's Stores
I an ideal world, the words chosen should have some relevance to a quartermaster's stores, even if some semantic confusion is tolerable. Thus "frogs" in the first example below could refer to bayonet frogs, the canvas strap with which a scabbard is hung from the belt.
"Frogs, frogs, wearing swimming togs."
Another verse popular in my time was:
"Horses, horses, wearing women's corsets"