>>>>For some reason I'm thinking about this place this morning. I went there years ago and its the weirdest sensation to sit in the bar having a pint and then stand up and its a steep hill up to the bar to be served.
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http://www.sedgleymanor.com/historical/crooked_house.html>>>
>>>For some reason I can hear my grandmother reciting something about
>>>"There was a crooked man
>>>who walked a crooked mile
>>>and found a crooked sixpence
>>>upon a crooked style"
>>>something something
>>>"and they all lived together in a little crooked house"
>>
>>Seems to me this poem featured in the plot of some comic book I had.
>>
>>Tamar
>
>Isn't from 'Mother Goose' rhymes?
Mother Goose may have repeated it, but it is older than that. This website is fun -
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/there_was_a-crooked_man.htm(do next when you get there to see "Three Blind Mice"
)
I'm sure they also have "Ring around the Rosie" the rhyme from the Black Death.
Nursery rhymes are pretty gruesome. <s>
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.
