BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 12:31 PM

;~)

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 10:38 PM

That's cute, Dave's Wife. And that was a sharp guess, but the truth was more obscure; my nephew was into Gene Autry movies at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 08:19 PM

I assume that'old Green hardy" movies were Laurel & Hardy, yes?

Becca, your story about your sone reminded me of my Cousin kenny who is now a grown man and about 6 foot 4. When I was 17 he was 4. He and his mother came down to visit us for a couple of weeks and I was the only non-adult left in the house, my sister having grown up and gotten married. Kenny stuck to me like glue and being a typical annoying teenager, that bugged me.

I set him up in my bedroom to watch Treasure Island on TV but he kept coming out to find me to tell me what was happening in the movie. I told him I'd seen it before and he didn't need to keep telling me. Finally, he came out again and when I scolded him, he came over and whispered urgently in my ear "But he scares me!" Who scares you, i asked.   "Long Johns Shivers!" he cried!

I relented, took mercy on the poor kid and told him he didn't have to finish watching the movie if the pirate scared him. Then he said "but I want to watch the movie" - thereby demonstrating that even little kids like to be scared so long as there's somebody near by. He convinced me to go back and sit on th ebd with him and every time "Long Johns Shivers" appeared, he'd burrow his little head under my arm until I told him it was safe to look.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 09:56 PM

Uh...not exactly, Charlie...

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 08:14 PM

Frogprince-

Is this what your nephew meant by "green hardy"? Click at Your Own Risk!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 05:06 PM

There is an aquarium in FL that is a glass tunnel in which you walk among the sharks.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 04:12 PM

When my eldest nephew was learning to talk he called my father Bumpa..we would all try to correct him by saying "No, Thomas, Grrrr ampa" to get the correct sound going. That's how my father became known as Grrrrr Bumpa. This is the same kid who called my mother "Raggy" but we all thought that was pretty accurate and didn't correct him.

He's 23, well over 6' tall and covered in tatooes now but every chance we get we remind him of when he was 2 or 3 and his favorite show was Lassie reruns. At the end of every show when Lassie and Timmy walked off into the distance he would wail and cry and carry on "Lassie noooooo...don't gooooo". He doesn't think it's very funny but the rest of us sure get a kick out of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 03:53 PM

The USA. At four years of age, my nephew would probably have applied the term to anything from a movie made in 1934 to a TV episode from 1956. The "old" was my wording; he just said "Green Hardy movies".
(My nephew is now a Sargeant Major with 20 years in the Army, currently serving in Iraq.)

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Mo the caller
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 05:22 AM

What country / continent were Green Hardy (old Green Hardy?) movies shown in?

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 09:48 PM

My little nephew used to have a weakness for old Green Hardy movies on Saturday morning TV. It took me a while to decipher that one...can you guess?

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Darowyn
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 03:26 PM

My little Grandson, James (4) goes to a Church School, so he tries to make sense of some very strange words.
A month ago he had to go to Harvey's Festival- and Harvey, the crane engine from the Thomas the Tank Engine stories, was unaccountably not there!
Next week he is playing the part of a King in the Nativity play- the one called Milkybar. (Alongside Caspar and Balthazar)
Cheeers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 12:37 PM

Remember that Aerosmith song : "Going Down in an Alligator"

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 08:13 AM

See you later, escalator! After a while, crock-o'-smile!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Mo the caller
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 04:29 AM

I'm still doing it. I read a title on a hen keeping forum about automatic pop hole closers as hop poles!

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 12:40 AM

I used to write down all of the funny little things my daughter (his mom) would say. She was always getting things turned around. Those things she cleaned out the stables with were fitchporks.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Mo the caller
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 03:48 PM

The mind boggles, or as my daughter read it "mind the boggles".
(She hasn't lived it down either.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Bee
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 02:42 PM

Thanks, kat and Charley. ;-)

Kat, let me know if the young fella likes it, even if he did mean crocodiles. Grownups! They never get anything exactly right!

My younger sister, when four or so, had a great talent for re-working words. We still often refer to helicopters and pussycats as pollypoppers and tuppa-tas. She's in her middle forties and is long resigned to this mildly humiliating family teasing.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 02:32 PM

When I was little, I mixed up alligators and escalators. But then, that was in south Florida.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 02:00 PM

Mo - we have some lizards out here in Southern California called Alligator Lizards and they really do kinda look like little gators. The Western fence Lizard looks a like a gator too and they will snap at you if you pick them up.

I know this of course because of my marmalade cat who I call a variety of names depending upon my mood. Today she's fatso but I mean that in the most endearing way! She's not so much fat as she is simply gigantic.

She went through a phase where she was smacking the tails off all the lizards in the neighborhood. When she got all their tails off, she'd sometimes grab the lizards themselves to play with and bring the terrified fellas into the house. I learned about the fence lizards tendency to snap by having to rescue a few of them from Fatso's eveil clutches.

At least Inky doesn't go for lizards. he restricts himself to mice, rats, large water bugs and his evil nemesis, Clarke The Cat from the next street over. Clarke is distantly related to Freddy Krueger and once nearly succeeded in ripping Inky's left ear off. Thankfully, our heroic Vet was able to sew it up and Inky's no worse for the wear.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Mo the caller
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 01:20 PM

Holiday season, you said. Well, we were on our way to Blackpool with our buckets and spades, young daughter singing in the back, me navigating. She thought I was correcting her words, so now its -
"Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool left?"

I used to supervise a playgroup, and took them on a country walk. "Oh look, there's a hare". James looked most apprehensive, I don't know what he thought a hare was, or how big.
And "look what I've found"... holding a newt on my hand. "Is it a crocodile?"

Being 4 must be a most confusing time.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 11:47 AM

Oh! Of course, Charley! Could be as he knows elevators and like to go on them, but they've never been associated with Santa, Christmas, or shopping for him. The kid does have an inventive mind, though, so it'd be a short leap for him to use that.:-)

Hate to say it, but in the middle of the night I got to thinking maybe he said "crocodile!" Oh, no, I'll have to check with him on that. Regardless, I love Bee's song and shall be singing it to him.

Thanks, all!

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 10:38 AM

Bee-

Very nicely done!

Kat-

Maybe "under the alligators" is a reference to "under the elevators". Are there elevators on the Western Slope of Colorado? Seems to me they would come in handy.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 10:20 AM

I actually HEARD the thread title in my head as a parody for "Over the river and through the woods" etc.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 09:40 AM

It's for the safety of the alligator... these might happen by

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 06:02 AM

I heard on the radio yesterday that it's illegal to tether an alligator to a fire hydrant in Florida. So I guess Santa isn't down in Florida.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Mo the caller
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 03:20 AM

I remember similar journeys.
The London department stores made a big thing of 'going to see Father Christmas'. It usually involved a trip in a rocket or submarine (it must have been real, you could feel it moving, and see the passing scenery through the window) before you arrived at the Grotto had got your present.
I must have been taken there in half term, and I can remember being offered the chance of going to see another Father Christmas (this didn't confuse me, I knew they weren't the 'real' one but I enjoyed the show) if I traded my unwanted present, which could be given to one of the cousins on my mothers long christmas present list.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 12:41 AM

I LOVE it, Bee!! Well done and thank yew! can't wait to read it to the boy.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Bee
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 12:22 AM

I've been inspired... well, very mildly inspired.

Perils of the Journey to Santa

Christmas was coming, the grownups were humming
And I was beginning to see
That no single mention was made of intentions
To make certain Santa knew me

So I said... Cho.

Mother or Father or somebody other
Must take me to Santa Claus please
It's a long way and dangerous
Prob'ly quite strangerous
I certainly can't go alone
Cause it's under the alligators
and through a dark tunnel
To get to old Santa Claus' home

Mother said honey that's really quite funny
Whatever on earth do you mean?
Santa lives northerly, alligators are southerly
And no tunnels lie in between

But I said... Cho.

So Father is taking me and Mother is baking me
Cookies to eat on the way
And I'm taking some 'taters to throw at the 'gators
Whatever my parents might say

Cause I know... Cho.

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 12:19 AM

nor Christmas but applicable all year!

Little girl "I love you, more than I love pink" (the colour, not the pop singer!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 11:45 PM

'cept the kid has never seen an escalator, Charley. **bg** I don't think there are any on the whole of the Western Slope of Colorado. Not that I know of!

Magic portals, huh? Yeah, that would figure with the video games the kid has already seen. I'll see if I can get him to expound when next I see him.

"Horses July" that's a good one!

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 10:10 PM

Kat-

Somehow I think "alligators" got mixed up with "escalators" but I do like Amos's explanation better.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Amos
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 09:18 PM

No -- the tunnel is the magic portal to the unbounded potentiality of Santa's workshops, where anything is possible. The alligators try to prevent kids from crossing from Harsh Reality Land through the tunnel to a place where their dreams can be realized.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 09:11 PM

This is not about "Christmas" but when I was much younger I always looked forward to celebrating "The Horses July."

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 08:55 PM

HMMMMM...so Santa lives in the NY Subway System???????

Subject: RE: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: Amos
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 04:39 PM

Seem to me that is a fine start for a kids' song....

Over the alligators, through the tunnel
To get to Santa Calus...


I thas a certain rhythm to it...






A

Subject: BS: Under the alligators, through a tunnel
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 04:08 PM

Yesterday, my grandson, Morgan, 4 years old, told me he wanted to go see Santa. Then, before I could reply, he told me "you have to go under the alligators and through a tunnel" before you can get to Santa. That conjured up all kinds of images in my brain...pretty funny ones, too. None of us have any idea where he heard that or if he dreamed it up entirely on his own, which is quite possible.

So, anyway...what "kids say the darndest things" have you heard recently, esp. about the holiday season?