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07 Apr 06 - 04:19 PM (#1712744) Subject: BS: Thread Thread, The From: nosluap57 This thread is about thread. That's what I said. It's the thread thread! Taken by some with much dread. Other's may think inside their head, "What's the point of a thread thread?" |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:20 PM (#1712745) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi Sew what? |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:22 PM (#1712746) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: MMario you're just trying to needle us, right? Can you pin down just what it seams this thread is about? |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:25 PM (#1712750) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Dave the Gnome Eye can't see it myself. Right said thread, got to get the door off... :D }(tG) |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:26 PM (#1712751) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Wesley S I like the song "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". Does that count? |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:52 PM (#1712771) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Janie Sew what? Sew what, you ask? Be sure to sew cotton cloth with cotton thread, that's what! (so the thread and cloth shrink in same proportions first time you wash it--leastways, that is what Granny always said.) Janie |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:55 PM (#1712773) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: fat B****rd "A bobbinabobbin atreadlelatreadle" Sorry, it's the Goliath I'm drinking. |
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07 Apr 06 - 05:07 PM (#1712782) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Rapparee My wife's a quilter, and I ain't going here! |
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07 Apr 06 - 05:09 PM (#1712783) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi You weep what you sew. |
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07 Apr 06 - 05:11 PM (#1712785) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi And maybe you weep when you sew if your eyes can't see the eye of the needle. |
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07 Apr 06 - 05:12 PM (#1712786) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi But maybe we're missing the point. |
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07 Apr 06 - 06:44 PM (#1712820) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Bill D no, it's "as ye sew, so shall ye sweep" cut off loose threads need attention! |
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07 Apr 06 - 06:57 PM (#1712826) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Geordie-Peorgie Aah divvent want te stitch anyone up here but this is Tackin' the Mickey! A Thread Thread? Yez keep bobbin' aroond mekkin' me Cross you sew 'n' sews Aah'm just glad that aah'm a Singer - And so's me sister, Bernina!! |
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07 Apr 06 - 07:44 PM (#1712847) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Liz the Squeak To drag this kicking and screaming into music.... Spindle, bobbin and spool away... LTS |
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07 Apr 06 - 09:33 PM (#1712905) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi Oh, so you want this to be a music thread? Well, I gotta song for you- BOB A-NEEDLE {traditional African American children's game song} Note: parenthesis represent lines sung by group Bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Better run, bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Better hustle, bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} I want bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Want to find bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Going to catch bob-a-needl {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Turn around, bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} Oh bob, bob-a-needle {Bob-a-needle is a running,} from: Bessie Jones & Bess Lomax Hawes "Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs & Stories from the Afro-American Heritage" {University of Georgia Press, 1972, pps. 163-164} Commentary from "Step It Down" : "Bob-A-Needle" {bobbin needle?} is for purposes of this game, a pen, a jackknife, or a small stick of wood that can be passed rapidly from hand to hand. All the players but one stand in a tight circle, shoulder to shoulder, holding their hands behind their backs. The extra player stands in the center of the ring [circle]; she closes her eyes and hold the bob-a-needle high over her head in one hand. One of the ring players silently creeps up and takes the bob-a-needle from her hand and puts it behind his own back. The center player then opens her eyes and begins to sing the lead line of the song; the players in the circle sing the refrain... The lead singer's lines are extemporaneous and can be sung in any order...During the singing, the players in the ring [forming the circle] from hand to hand, trying to move as little as possible in order not to make its location obvious. Bob-a-needle may travel clockwise or counterclockwise, and the players may reverse directions at will. The center player meanwhile reaches around the waist and feels the hands of each ring player in turn; she too may go in either direction, but she may not skip players nor run back and forth across the ring. When the center player reverses the direction of her search, she must signal this with the lead line, "Turn, bob-a-needle!" This game does not end when someone is caught holding the elusive bob-a-needle. Like most of Mrs [Bessie] Jones' games [from the Georgia Sea Isle Gullah tradition]that involve 'losing', the person simply pays a forfeit and/or takes over the center role so that can begin again. When the players tire, the accumulated forfeits are redeemed by the owners in a new sequence of play." |
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07 Apr 06 - 09:45 PM (#1712911) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi See this adaptation of this traditional children's song that was recorded in 1964 by Chubby Checker {of "Let's Twist" fame: GOT TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER "This is a sad story About a girl named Mary Mac And her wondering lover Bob Needle (Group) Oh! Softly I can hear her calling Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bob Hey Bob Mary Mac Mac Mac All dressed in black black black Don't cha know I'm trying trying trying Just to come on back back back Cause I took a plane plane plane But there was some rain rain rain And there was no flyin flyin flyin So I took a train train train Oh Mary Mac Mac Mac It went off the track track track Can't you see I'm dying dying dying Just to come on back back back (Group) Oh! Softly I can hear you calling Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bob Hey Bob (Instrumental Break) Well I took a boat boat boat But it wouldn't float float float So I kept on a puffin puffin puffin That was all she wrote wrote wrote So I must wear my cross cross cross And I bought a horse horse horse But it just keeps runnin runnin runnin All around the track track track Baby I ain't lyin lyin lyin Can't you see that I'm tryin tryin tryin Don't cha know I'm tryin tryin tryin Just to come on back To Mary Mac (Group) Oh! Softly I can hear her holler Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle Hey Bob Hey Bob Oh Yeah Hey Bob" From: http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/233121.html Note the inclusion of the lines from the traditional African American children's rhyme "[Miss]Mary Mack". |
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07 Apr 06 - 10:00 PM (#1712920) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi See my adaptation of that traditional children's game song: Hey, bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle. Hey, bob-ah-needle Oh, where's your home? Run, bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle Run, bob-ah-needle Run back home! Skip, bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle Skip, bob-ah-needle Skip back home! Hop etc. March etc. [end with] Sit down, bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle bob-ah-needle Sit down, bob-ah-needle Sit down right now! Azizi Powell {c} 4/7/2006 Directions: The words are sung in unison. During the singing of the first verse the group of children can sway back and forth or do a simplified bass sounding foot stompin [steppin]movement. Another action word is used in each subsequent verse. The order of the verbs will probably become a fixed for that particular group. Members of the group perform the movement indicated by the action word. |
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07 Apr 06 - 10:13 PM (#1712926) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Ebbie Oh, Brother. (I don't have a singer.) |
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07 Apr 06 - 11:07 PM (#1712947) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Sorcha Oh serge it......and flock it too while yer at it, says the pricking of my thumbs. |
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08 Apr 06 - 06:45 AM (#1713059) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: DMcG Coates #3334 = DMC #819 (more or less, anyway) |
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08 Apr 06 - 09:19 AM (#1713109) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi Yeah-whatever DNcG said. |
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08 Apr 06 - 09:23 AM (#1713114) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi I'm right back front and center. no turning round for me! **** How come nobody has come up with the obvious? Trying to figure out the point of this thread is like looking for a needle in a haystack! |
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08 Apr 06 - 12:16 PM (#1713186) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Mo the caller Your needle had no thread Azizi. When we played that game (in the 50's in London at adult supervised family or childrens parties)we held a thread (well,ok then a loop of string) with a curtain ring threaded onto it. This was passed from hand to hand and the one in the middle had to find the ring. I don't remember a chant though. "Queenie, queenie who's got the ball Is she big or is she tall Is she fat or is she thin Is she like a rolling pin" must have been for a different game, maybe we stood in a line and someone stood in front with her back turned and threw the ball over her shoulder. Funny the way memory works, I can't really remember playing it, only the rhyme. Must be losing the thread |
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08 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM (#1713233) Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The From: Azizi Opps, I just realized I spelled DMcG initials wrong. And nobody pointed it out. Sorry 'bout that. No harm intended. **** Hey, Mo! Whatcha know? [Sorry, I couldn't resist that one]. As to children's passing along a hidden object games, I don't remember playing those "bob-a-needle" or "queenie, queenie who's got the ball" games from my childhood or when my children were little. But I do remember reciting "Doggie, Doggie where's your bone?" If there was rhyming line that goes with it, I don't remember it. Maybe it was the almost rhyme "look for it on your way home" Naw. Okay, how about "Call for help on the telephone". Nope. I'll probably never remember what that rhyming line was for "Doggie Doggie where's your bone". Oh, what's the point of trying?! |