The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31476   Message #644999
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
07-Feb-02 - 10:54 PM
Thread Name: Dirty Dick and Little Nell?
Subject: RE: Dirty Dick and Little Nell?
There is a fully extended version of Eskimo Nell in the DT, but it has been contaminated by some Eng----man, with uncouth words such as arse (or should I write that "a--e" for the squeamish) rather than the genteel ass, and with some words a few letters short of a definition such as quim, etc. There is also, on the part of Abby Sale, a failure to recognize words and phrases that are North American as well as Brit such as "get the wind up" and "queue" (well-nigh universal among those of us who speak the only Chosen language). Harrumph!
For a purer version of this steal from poor old Robert Service (See Touch-the-Button Nell and a dozen or so of his other poems) hit on: NELL
The damn thing is too long to copy and the website manager, Pete Bevin, has done a good job, so go to the above to peruse it.