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Troy Steadman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:06 pm
Post subject: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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"Now forty c**ts and forty arses
If you can use your wits,
And if you're slick at arithmetic,
Makes exactly eighty tits.
Now eighty tits are a gladsome sight
For a man with a raging stand
It may be rare in Berkeley Square
But not on the Rio Grande..."
I can't imagine anyone has copyright on these masterpieces but they
don't seem to be widely available. This site has 30 free but you have
to pay to download the remainder.
http://www.rugbysongs.net/RugbySongs.htm
Doesn't seem to include this one which I've been trying to remember for
the best part of 30 years. Sung to a well-known Bach ditty:
"While the train is in the station
Please refrain from urination
Have respect for railway property,
But if you feel that you oughta
Kindly ask the nearest porter
Who'll direct you to the lavatory."
Something like that. Later Peter Pan is molested. Anyone know it?
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Joe Fineman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:05 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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If you go to www.mudcat.org and do a search on "bawdy" you will find
many versions of such songs, and much commentary.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:19 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Troy Steadman filted:
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Doesn't seem to include this one which I've been trying to remember for
the best part of 30 years. Sung to a well-known Bach ditty:
"While the train is in the station
Please refrain from urination
Have respect for railway property,
But if you feel that you oughta
Kindly ask the nearest porter
Who'll direct you to the lavatory."
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Bach?...sounds like someone trying to produce a followup to:
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
(Tune by Dvorak)....r
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Linz
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:24 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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On 17 Sep 2005 02:06:10 -0700, "Troy Steadman"
<troysteadman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | "Now forty c**ts and forty arses
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Forty carts? Forty cants? Forty chats? Forty chits?
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The point of education is to correct ignorance. It cannot deal with stupidity.
(Mortimer Hebblethwaite, uk.misc) |
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Troy Steadman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:25 pm
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Joe Fineman wrote:
| Quote: | If you go to www.mudcat.org and do a search on "bawdy" you will find
many versions of such songs, and much commentary.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
||: Solid-state physics is the physics of dirt effects. |
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Thanks for the link. One of their songs has this worst-ever dialect
rhyme:
"He's accompanied Oasis and Blur,
And done backing music for Cher" |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:16 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Linz wrote:
| Quote: | On 17 Sep 2005 02:06:10 -0700, "Troy Steadman"
troysteadman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
"Now forty c**ts and forty arses
Forty carts? Forty cants? Forty chats? Forty chits?
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So how many cunts were going to St Ives?
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John Dean
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Prai Jei
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:57 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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R H Draney (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<dgh8km022nu@drn.newsguy.com>:
| Quote: | Troy Steadman filted:
Doesn't seem to include this one which I've been trying to remember for
the best part of 30 years. Sung to a well-known Bach ditty:
"While the train is in the station
Please refrain from urination
Have respect for railway property,
But if you feel that you oughta
Kindly ask the nearest porter
Who'll direct you to the lavatory."
Bach?...sounds like someone trying to produce a followup to:
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
(Tune by Dvorak)....r
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That's him. Humoresque in G Flat Major Op. 101 No. 7
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There are very few spiders found on bananas that bite.
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Troy Steadman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:58 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Prai Jei wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
dgh8km022nu@drn.newsguy.com>:
Troy Steadman filted:
Doesn't seem to include this one which I've been trying to remember for
the best part of 30 years. Sung to a well-known Bach ditty:
"While the train is in the station
Please refrain from urination
Have respect for railway property,
But if you feel that you oughta
Kindly ask the nearest porter
Who'll direct you to the lavatory."
Bach?...sounds like someone trying to produce a followup to:
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
(Tune by Dvorak)....r
That's him. Humoresque in G Flat Major Op. 101 No. 7
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At the very minimum I would expect an mp3 link, preferably to a
Humoresque that is no longer flat. |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:06 am
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
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"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
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ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
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Cheers, Harvey
Canadian (30 years) and British (23 years)
For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van |
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Carmen L. Abruzzi
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:24 am
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Troy Steadman wrote:
| Quote: | "Now forty c**ts and forty arses
If you can use your wits,
And if you're slick at arithmetic,
Makes exactly eighty tits.
Now eighty tits are a gladsome sight
For a man with a raging stand
It may be rare in Berkeley Square
But not on the Rio Grande..."
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Or the playa. I got caught up in such a scene on the way back to camp.
In critical condition. |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:11 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Harvey Van Sickle filted:
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On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
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Got it that way from Asimov...there were precious few passenger trains around
when I were a lad....r |
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:26 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:dgj0e8010o9@drn.newsguy.com...
| Quote: | Harvey Van Sickle filted:
On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
Got it that way from Asimov...there were precious few passenger trains
around
when I were a lad....r
Wasn't there some Slanders and Fwann ditty beginning with "Gentlemen will |
please refrain. . ."?
Seems to me that it had to do with the oft seen and heard expression
involving smoking in theaters. Or was that expectorating? |
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:19 pm
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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In message <JygXe.34$OC2.23@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, Pat Durkin
<durkinpa@nothome.com> writes
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:dgj0e8010o9@drn.newsguy.com...
Harvey Van Sickle filted:
On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
Got it that way from Asimov...there were precious few passenger trains
around
when I were a lad....r
Wasn't there some Slanders and Fwann ditty beginning with "Gentlemen will
please refrain. . ."?
Seems to me that it had to do with the oft seen and heard expression
involving smoking in theaters. Or was that expectorating?
They did sing The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations: |
"The public may leave at the end of each performance
By all the exit doors,
And all such doors must at that time be open -
They gotta be open, they gotta be open ...
All gangways, passages and staircases
Must be kept entirely free
Of chaiiiiiiirs, and any other obstructions ..."
but I don't remember a smoking passage.
--
Paul
In bocca al Lupo! |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:10 am
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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Paul Wolff wrote:
| Quote: | In message <JygXe.34$OC2.23@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, Pat Durkin
durkinpa@nothome.com> writes
"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:dgj0e8010o9@drn.newsguy.com...
Harvey Van Sickle filted:
On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
Got it that way from Asimov...there were precious few passenger
trains around when I were a lad....r
Wasn't there some Slanders and Fwann ditty beginning with "Gentlemen
will please refrain. . ."?
Seems to me that it had to do with the oft seen and heard expression
involving smoking in theaters. Or was that expectorating?
They did sing The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations:
"The public may leave at the end of each performance
By all the exit doors,
And all such doors must at that time be open -
They gotta be open, they gotta be open ...
All gangways, passages and staircases
Must be kept entirely free
Of chaiiiiiiirs, and any other obstructions ..."
but I don't remember a smoking passage.
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Ho Yus. It was all there:
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
So if you want to have a smoke and you've got the price,
Just light it up and puff away to paradise,
Because Smoking is permitted in the auditorium.
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
So if you want to have a smoke and you've got the price,
Just light it up and puff away to paradise,
Because Smoking is permitted in the auditorium.
DS: The safety curtain must be lowered in the presence of each audience.
MF: The safety curtain must be raised in the presence of each audience.
Both: The safety curtain must be lowered (raised) in the presence of
each audience.
The safety curtain must be lowered (raised) in the presence of each
audience.
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
All gangways, passages and staircases,
Must be kept entirely free,
Of chairs, or any other obstruction,
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
And all such doors must at that time be open.
They've gotta be open!
They've gotta be open!
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John Dean
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:11 am
Post subject: Re: "Cathusalem", "Eskimo Nell", and other classics |
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"John Dean" <john-dean@frag.lineone.net> wrote in message
news:dgl2rr$8q3$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
| Quote: | Paul Wolff wrote:
In message <JygXe.34$OC2.23@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, Pat Durkin
durkinpa@nothome.com> writes
"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:dgj0e8010o9@drn.newsguy.com...
Harvey Van Sickle filted:
On 17 Sep 2005, R H Draney wrote
re: Humoresque words
"Passengers will please refrain
From flushing toilets while the train
Is standing in the station, I love you."
ObAEU discussion:
I've only ever heard that as "Gentlemen will please refrain".
Regional difference?
Got it that way from Asimov...there were precious few passenger
trains around when I were a lad....r
Wasn't there some Slanders and Fwann ditty beginning with "Gentlemen
will please refrain. . ."?
Seems to me that it had to do with the oft seen and heard expression
involving smoking in theaters. Or was that expectorating?
They did sing The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations:
"The public may leave at the end of each performance
By all the exit doors,
And all such doors must at that time be open -
They gotta be open, they gotta be open ...
All gangways, passages and staircases
Must be kept entirely free
Of chaiiiiiiirs, and any other obstructions ..."
but I don't remember a smoking passage.
Ho Yus. It was all there:
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
So if you want to have a smoke and you've got the price,
Just light it up and puff away to paradise,
Because Smoking is permitted in the auditorium.
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
Smoking is permitted in the Auditorium,
So if you want to have a smoke and you've got the price,
Just light it up and puff away to paradise,
Because Smoking is permitted in the auditorium.
DS: The safety curtain must be lowered in the presence of each audience.
MF: The safety curtain must be raised in the presence of each audience.
Both: The safety curtain must be lowered (raised) in the presence of
each audience.
The safety curtain must be lowered (raised) in the presence of each
audience.
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
All gangways, passages and staircases,
Must be kept entirely free,
Of chairs, or any other obstruction,
The public may leave at the end of each performance by all the exit
doors,
And all such doors must at that time be open.
They've gotta be open!
They've gotta be open!
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Thank you. I do now recall that. Strange that I associate it with the
"Gentlemen will please refrain", though.
Well, knowing how my mind sidesteps logic and good memory trains, I suppose
it isn't really strange at all. |
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