The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53607 Message #3199807
Posted By: MGM·Lion
01-Aug-11 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Yellow Rose of Texas
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Yellow Rose of Texas
That 'Man from Laramie/Davy Crockett/cup of tea' version was widespread ~~ lots of variants in several threads. The irrationality, as I have remarked elsewhere, is that a second cup of tea is generally poured into the same cup as the first, so the total amount of the washing-up would not increase ~~ the then about 8-yr-old nephew from whom I learnt it in about 1957 made that point himself.
But Keith's version above has an additional shock & frisson ~~ what kind of hospitality is it to invite someone to tea and then leave him with the washing-up. Fine hosts they were!
~Michael~