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NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?

16 Jan 01 - 09:01 PM (#375835)
Subject: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Mrrzy

A phrase has been running through my mind; I think it's from something British and juvenile, would appreciate all help and any creeping into music so I don't annoy the purists:

There's a mouse in the house
Said the louse not a word.

What on earth is it from? Thanks, all!


16 Jan 01 - 09:14 PM (#375839)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Allan C.

Gee, I don't know the answer. The context I heard this in was when someone was trying to illustrate a southeastern Virginia accent. You know, when "house" is pronounced, "heaoose" - or something like that. But I never knew the origin of the phrases.


16 Jan 01 - 09:15 PM (#375841)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,Doer of Things

from David A.


16 Jan 01 - 09:20 PM (#375845)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,Doer of Things

I am sorry Mrrzy. That was disrespectful and mean.I will not do it again.My conscience got me a soon as I hit submit.

I do not know whence it came (the poem, that is, not my smartassedness)

Please accept my apology. Okay?

DOT


16 Jan 01 - 10:50 PM (#375873)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Sorcha

Doer, smart-assed ness usually comes in the back door....(grin) I sort of recognize the phrase, some children's author, British maybe. I'll think.......(even though it's hard) Shut up, spaw.


16 Jan 01 - 11:00 PM (#375879)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Sorcha

Stuart Little??? by Raymond Chandler Burns??? 1950's???


17 Jan 01 - 12:53 AM (#375925)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Chocolate Pi

The Littles replace "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" with "louse" in order to protect Stuart's feelings.


Chocolate Pi


17 Jan 01 - 08:24 AM (#376071)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,The Doer of Things

I thought I had plagarized "smartassedness" from Leon Albo. No wait, that's where I aquired the attribute, not the word. :-D

It is a delightful word though, from whoever the source.

DOT


17 Jan 01 - 11:24 AM (#376188)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Steve Parkes

You couldn't be thinking of "Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose" by Lord Rockingham's XI at all? (if you are, try thinking about something else quick!)

Steve


17 Jan 01 - 11:30 AM (#376193)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,Matt_R

Sorcha, Stuart Litte was written by E.B. White. Raymond Chandler wrote the "Philip Marlowe" detective stories.

The quote reminds me of a song by The Move,

Open up!
Said the world at the door


17 Jan 01 - 11:32 AM (#376197)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

Ah, Steve, you slipped up there, giving me an "in" to thread creep.
Jazz critic and broadcaster Benny Green (the UK BG not the US BG) used to sneer at "pop" but actually played sax as one of Lord Rockingham's 11. When they had to appear on "Top of the Pops" or some similar programme he wore a beret and dark glasses and hoped none of his jazz friends were watching. Who were the rest? Red Price would also have been on sax (he was on everything in those days), Cherry Wainer on organ, I think....
RtS (but I could be wrong.....!)


17 Jan 01 - 11:57 AM (#376223)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: SINSULL

You are amazing Roger. And now it's a music thread!


18 Jan 01 - 12:14 AM (#376702)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Mrrzy

Well, I asked for a creep... oh, yeah, isn't that why I"m single again (BG)?

Anyway, it's to my mind American, I have very roundish drawings in mind, the louse mouse thing is one of a set of stories, poems, other little vignettes in the book, hope that helps...Oh, and Doer of Things? I can't even see what you thought might have offended me, so don't worry. You can explain, though, I'm curious!


19 Jan 01 - 11:26 AM (#377762)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Mrrzy

Refresh - come on, somebody remember this for me! One of the stories had a fat cat and a lean cat, a long thin grin cat, or something like that. One of the stories might have been the man who wasn't there (he wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away)...


19 Jan 01 - 12:13 PM (#377814)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Grab

That sounds fairly Seuss-ish. Couldn't identify the book though - it's been a few years since I read Cat in the Hat... :-)

Grab.


19 Jan 01 - 12:17 PM (#377820)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Mrrzy

Yes, but it isn't Seuss. There is a baseball bat in the cat story...


19 Jan 01 - 07:02 PM (#378128)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST

Haven't a clue. Lots of children's poems sound this way. Mother Goose, Shel Silverstein, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling. Check with a children's librarian.


20 Jan 01 - 04:09 PM (#378566)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,the Doer of Things

Mrrzy, I have a great tendency to offend with no offense intended. I lack certain social skills.

I gave a quick answer to your thread and immediately thought that it may have offended.

Thanks for being gracious!

DOT


26 Mar 01 - 08:16 AM (#425706)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

Just in case anyone was wondering who the rest of the Lord Rockingham's XI were on the Hoot's Mon track(don't seem to be 11, just as the Temperance Seven were rarely fewer than nine!):
Vocal, leader, conductor: Harry Robinson
Saxes: Red Price (lead tenor);Benny Green;Cyril Reubens
Organ:Cherry Wainer
Guitars: Bernie Taylor and Kenny Packwood
Double-bass:Ronnie Black
Drums:Reg Weller.
RtS (still playing with the National Sound Archive catalogue! [that's http://www.cadensa.bl.uk))


26 Mar 01 - 11:52 AM (#425817)
Subject: RE: NON-Music: Mouse in the House Louse?
From: Mrrzy

I was really hoping somebody remembered this for me... oh well... keep thinking, y'all! And DofT, I am nothing if not gracious (BG!). Ask anybody!