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Thread #155880   Message #3671465
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
23-Oct-14 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Remember those old rhyme-clues?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Remember those old rhyme-clues?
On the edge of University rag humour:
Blunderbus: a pushchair.
The meme starts to drift. Sorry.
How much of it comes from German composite nouns? My teacher (one of the spies on the High Command incarcerated in Trent Park in WWII) always used to enjoy the thoroughly juvenile original of "dashingupanddownlikeafartalongacurtainrail". Anyone got the original?