I think the only way anyone here would know him would be as Alfred P. Doolittle i n the movie version of My Fair Lady. I wouldn't either but for my cousin cracking me up with the Alfred stuff. ( there's also a song about the ghost of Anne Bolyn that has something about " with 'er 'ead, tooked, underneath 'er arm ... )
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>>>A humourous song but I guess the audience would wish you to die if you tried to sing all the verses! :-)
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>>Perhaps if Stanley Holloway were to do it? ( BTW, I have a cousin in Devizes who does a drop dead perfect rendition of "Albert and the Lion" and the other Albert whose ( which's ? ) name escapes me right now )
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>Sorry. This means nothing to me. If it's a Holloway thing then those monologues just leave me cold. I'm surprised Americans know of him anyway, except from the old "Ealing Comedies".
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>>>>A perfect setup for sharing a favorite : The Hedgehog Song (don't miss this)
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http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/filks/Hedgehog.html>>>>
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>>>>>>Before being sent to Turkey I was given a battery of shots, including three rabies shot in the stomach. I asked if this meant if I got bit I'd be okay and they said no, this will just increase your chances of staying alive until you can get to Ankara so we can give you the full 18.
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>>>>>For a while we had a couple hedgehogs as pets. The hedgehog is a scary animal, you just point a finger and it gets so scared it rolls into a ball. Now my daughters found ways to play with them like with kittens, and one of them got bitten twice in three days, same hedgehog, same finger.
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>>>>>We took her to the epidemiology (where the doc was the husband of my wife's once roommate) and they gave her the shots just in case - there would be an occasional rabid animal wandering over the border once every few years, and even that was forty miles away.
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>>>>>Few days later we walk by a house where they kept a big dog behind the fence. He started barking very loudly and very close, really startled us, and she said "you can't do a thing to me, I'm vaccinated now!". She was about six at the time.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
