Rafflesbear's comment about Georgie is because he heard me sing my family version, with no Henry, and a knife, not an axe - which really pushes the whole thing into the truly surreal, doesn't it?

Both the male and female are stupid, with narrowly focussed intelligence - Liza focusses on making the complainer look stupid with her responses, and he focusses on exposing hers in not seeing where he is going - and she must know how his mind works by now. It took me a long time to notice how idiotic she was.

Caulking a split wooden bucket seems most likely - but is a split a hole? Or is the straw as ridiculous as the axe?

Penny