Showing posts with label Rub a Dub Dub. Show all posts
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May 28, 2010

Illustration Friday" Early








Brian was so excited about his date with Matilda Theresa Lollyita-Santa-Maria, that he arrived at their rendezvous fourteen hours and twenty seven minutes early. 

As was his habit on a first date, he wore no socks and clutched a posy of stolen hydrangeas in his left hand. 

Tonight, as well as being excited, he was slightly nervous. And it wasn't just that Matilda Theresa Lollyita-Santa-Maria was the only other dwarf in the village. 

Tonight Brian's physical infirmities had made him a little "fragile".

Sure, his belly buttom ached from his new piercing; but, even worse, he had trouble sitting - his buttocks were still tender from last week's 'entertainment"  at the barracks.

You could never trust Cavalry Captains, he thought to himself. Never, ever.

They were only in it for the ride.



From Rupert Bunny- The Early Days: 1892-1912: Editor: R.Ripplefardenteiner: Pub: Simonster and Schlonger: 1989. London.



















Image: Apprentice jockey Brian Farnhobengarven  however, was slowly learning to dislike horses.




Clicking for big gives you a bad hair day :) Thanks for looking.


(apologies to everyone, and Little Britain)





Feb 1, 2010

Rub-a-Dub- Dub









Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And how do you think they got there?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick-maker,
They all jumped out of a rotten potato,
'Twas enough to make a man stare.


Well, I'm sure that wasn't the version that I recall from childhood, but it sounds pretty funny (at least it has a "t'was" in it!). These chaps have beer tankards on the supposition that "tub" is rhyming Cockney for "Pub." I don't know whether this is finished yet, or I'll work on it a wee bit more. I have a feeling I'll dig up some more Nursery Rhymes. Oh the joy of being a kid, if not in the heart, but in the brain.....