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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: cabbageweevil Date: August 3, 2018, 2:29 am
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[quote author=Twik link=topic=295.msg10389#msg10389
date=1533235740]
I love the story I heard once about a little girl drawing a
picture of the baby Jesus in a manger, surrounded by Mary,
Joseph, angels - and a large fat man.
When asked who he was, she explained he was Round John Virgin.
[/quote]
Kids and their getting bemused / confused by early encounters
with utterances in the "religion" department, both prose and
verse -- a source of endless fun. I like the bit in a fairly
recent novel: the first-person narrator's three-year-old
daughter attends a day-care centre with a strongly evangelical
flavour -- such things new to the kid, who comes home happily
chanting, "Dess, Jesus love me, the bagel makes it so".
And when I was little, the hymn lines "There is a green hill far
away / Without a city wall", gave me some puzzlement: I couldn't
see why a green hill should have a city wall in the first place.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Aleko Date: August 3, 2018, 4:43 am
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[quote]Kids and their getting bemused / confused by early
encounters with utterances in the "religion" department, both
prose and verse
[/quote]
Classic children's books can do the same. Very early in Treasure
Island there's a bit where young Jim Hawkins is alone in his
parents' inn when a stranger walks in 'wanting two fingers of
the left hand'. That baffled me, because normally when you speak
of people walking into a place of refreshment 'wanting'
something you mean that they came to ask for it - a drink, a
meal, directions, whatever. It sounded as though he expected the
innkeepers to provide fingers. That didn't make sense, so did
Jim mean the man said to him 'Ar, lad, I've lost two fingers, I
really miss them, I wish I could grow new ones' ? Because unless
he did, Jim couldn't have known he felt badly about his lost
fingers, could he? He might have got quite accustomed to life
without them.
It's funny how rarely a child actually thinks to ask grownups
about that kind of puzzle; the bemusement typically lasts for
years.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Jayhawk Date: August 3, 2018, 10:54 am
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A friend told me this years and years ago. She said while in
college, she and a bunch of friends were riding around and John
Denver's Rocky Mountain High came on the radio. They were all
singing along and came to the chorus, "Rocky Mountain High
(Colorado)." Except one girl sang, "Rocky Mountain High (boingo
boingo)." Still cracks me up.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: cabbageweevil Date: August 3, 2018, 11:56 am
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=295.msg10450#msg10450
date=1533289416]
[quote]Kids and their getting bemused / confused by early
encounters with utterances in the "religion" department, both
prose and verse
[/quote]
Classic children's books can do the same. Very early in Treasure
Island there's a bit where young Jim Hawkins is alone in his
parents' inn when a stranger walks in 'wanting two fingers of
the left hand'. That baffled me, because normally when you speak
of people walking into a place of refreshment 'wanting'
something you mean that they came to ask for it - a drink, a
meal, directions, whatever. It sounded as though he expected the
innkeepers to provide fingers. That didn't make sense, so did
Jim mean the man said to him 'Ar, lad, I've lost two fingers, I
really miss them, I wish I could grow new ones' ? Because unless
he did, Jim couldn't have known he felt badly about his lost
fingers, could he? He might have got quite accustomed to life
without them.[/quote]
He might have spent time in the South Seas; and acquired
anthropophagic tastes there ;D ?
[quote]
It's funny how rarely a child actually thinks to ask grownups
about that kind of puzzle; the bemusement typically lasts for
years.
[/quote]
I certainly had plenty of such bemused episodes, reading as a
kid -- both "classic kid lit", and more-adult fare. My parents
were lovely in most ways, but tended not to be very helpful re
this kind of situation: their response was liable to be, "We're
not going to spoon-feed you; you figure it out" -- which made me
chary of asking them.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Aleko Date: August 3, 2018, 12:10 pm
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[quote]He might have spent time in the South Seas; and acquired
anthropophagic tastes there ;D ? [/quote]
Ha, you're right, so he might! Never thought of that. ;D
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: cabbageweevil Date: August 3, 2018, 4:06 pm
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As the old cannibal said to the missionary trying earnestly to
convert him: "If God didn't want us to eat people, why did He
make people out of meat?"
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Aleko Date: August 3, 2018, 5:03 pm
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[quote]As the old cannibal said to the missionary trying
earnestly to convert him: "If God didn't want us to eat people,
why did He make people out of meat?"[/quote]
See here!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: kckgirl Date: August 4, 2018, 11:18 am
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[quote author=Jayhawk link=topic=295.msg10479#msg10479
date=1533311644]
A friend told me this years and years ago. She said while in
college, she and a bunch of friends were riding around and John
Denver's Rocky Mountain High came on the radio. They were all
singing along and came to the chorus, "Rocky Mountain High
(Colorado)." Except one girl sang, "Rocky Mountain High (boingo
boingo)." Still cracks me up.
[/quote]
That's a good one!
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Hanna Date: August 22, 2018, 6:59 pm
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Deacon Blues:
They call Alabama the Prince of Tides. Call me Deacon Blue.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Kimberami Date: September 4, 2018, 11:30 am
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Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. As I kid I heard "And
then I'm gonna give you yup, and then I'm gonna let you down,
etc..."
What a jerk! :o
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