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Thread #8079 Message #1316868
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Nov-04 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: New words for the 12 days of Christmas
Subject: RE: New words for the 12 days of Christmas
Resurrecting a five y'ar old thread for an old parody from eighteen hundred and forty-six. Halliwell, "The Nursery Rhymes of England," 1846. Obviously the little kiddies in the nursery had a much better grasp of language then than they do now.
CCXXVII
One old Oxford ox opening oysters; Two tee-totums totally tired of trying to trot to Tadbury; Three tall tigers tippling tenpenny tea; Four fat friars fanning fainting flies; Five frippy Frenchmen foolishly fishing for flies; Six sportsmen shooting snipes; Seven Severn salmons swallowing shrimps; Eight Englishmen eagerly examining Europe; Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nonpareils; Ten tinkers tinkling upon ten tin tinder-boxes with ten tenpenny tacks; Eleven elephants elegantly equipt; Twelve typographical topographers typically translating types.