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Thread #42386 Message #3015495
Posted By: JohnInKansas
26-Oct-10 - 01:39 AM
Thread Name: Origi:When the train is in the station(Humoresque)
Subject: RE: ADD: When the train is in the station (Humoresque)
The book is not close at hand a the moment, but my recollection is that "The Book of Bawdy Verse" records this one as:
Passengers will please refrain From using toilets while the train Is standing in the station (We thank you)
Constipation's recommended While the train is being tended If the train can't go Then why should you.
A companion piece on the same page:
Nothing looks much better Than a young girl in a sweater But a sweater may not be What it appears
Boys, it's recommended That you see what's in the sweater Or your wedding night might end In bitter tears.
No source is given for either of these, and the "author" is noted only as "by A Gentleman About Town," (Checkerbooks, ISBN 0-89009-411-X) as the original printing was at a time when it was not good for one's reputation (or survival) to be known for such stuff.
I vaguely recall a couple of others to the same tune in that book, but these are the only ones I believe I recall accurately enough to quote. One of the others, I think, had something to do with a statue of a famous person and ... pigeons(?), if that jogs a memory in the darker parts of someone's recollections.