BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole

Subject: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: Bert
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 01:00 PM

SUV falls down sinkhole in NY

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 01:07 PM

Water leak, hell; it was a damn Hummer, and the weight of the thing just naturally broke through the crust of the Earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: Wolfgang
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 01:22 PM

Munich 1994: A whole bus nearly disappears in a sinkhole:

click for picture

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: Desdemona
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 01:46 PM

Am I the only one who sees an odd sort of poetic justice in this...?

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: Kaleea
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 02:32 PM

Believe it or don't--years ago in my hometown of Tulsa, a VW Beetle, while stopped for a red light, fell into a sink hole. A picture of it was in the Tulsa paper. Those bugs do the darndest things.

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 01:34 PM

Cream used to sing a song with those words in - it was called Mothers Lament

Mother's Lament - Cream
Are we wollin'? A one, a two, a free, a four...
A mother was washing her baby one night,
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
The mother was poor and the baby was thin,
'Twas naught but an skelingtin covered with skin.
The mother turned 'round for a soap off the rack.
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
"Oh, where 'as my baby gone?" The angels replied:
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug 'ole.
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug.
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
He should 'ave been washed in a jug, in a jug.
Your baby is perfectly happy;
He won't need a bath anymore.
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,
Not lost but gone before.
Thankyou,
Do you wanna do it again?

Subject: RE: BS: Your baby has gorn dahn the plug'ole
From: RolyH
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 02:18 PM

Martin Carthy also did it many years ago.