The Inner Circle

[HappyLlama]

*nuzzles back*

*big smile on llama*

 

[Guest]

 

[MagicaPractica]

Evening Jammies, just wanted to say hi.

 

[Guest]

 

[MagicaPractica]

Evening, pretty Magica. Want me to sing to you?

Sure! Any new sock songs? I like stories about socks. I'm going to bed so it can't be scary though.

 

[Guest]

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Once upon a time there were three little foxes
Who didn’t wear stockings, and they didn’t wear sockses,
But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

And they lived in forest in three little houses,
And they didn’t wear coats, and they didn’t wear trousies.
They ran through the woods on their little bare tootsies,
And they played “Touch Last” with a family of mouses.

They didn’t go shopping in the High Street shopses,
But caught what they wanted in the woods and copses.
They all went fishing, and they caught three wormses,
They went out hunting, and they caught three wopses.

They went to a Fair, and they all won prizes –
Three plum-puddingses and three mince-pieses.
They rode on elephants and swang on swingses,
And hit three coco-nuts at coco-nut shieses.

That’s all I know of three little foxes
Who kept their handkerchiefs in three little boxes.
They lived in the forest in three little houses,
But they didn’t wear coats and they didn’t wear trousies,
And they didn’t wear stockings and they didn’t wear sockses.

A A Milne

 

[Guest]

 

[MagicaPractica]

Sorry, "Gypsy Sock" is the only one I know about socks. There's Liar's sock poem, or there's the soothing song I sing to Bigfoot.

Afraid I have to go to bed without a Jammies story tonight, I am verra verra tired. Thanks to Dr. S for a good story. to all.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Thank you, Dr. S.

As I said before in your thread (wherein you ignored me ) nice to meet or re-meet you.

Oh, how RUDE of me. Well, no, you don't know me, but have a continental anyway.

 

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[Dr_Strabismus]

You are forgiven your rudeness if you will forgive my teasing you about it.

*impish grin*

I forgive and forget very easily -- I'm actually remarkably good at forgetting stuff these days.

 

[Guest]

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Are you me?

Maybe. I'm not saying. :smirk emote:

 

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[MagicaPractica]

Lilredjaaaamiiieees, doo doo doo
Lilredjaaamiiiieees, here's a song for you.


I know a ditty nutty as a fruitcake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty,
others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats
and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

If the words sound queer
And funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy"

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

Just thought of the song and it made me think of you so if you need something silly at some point, there you go.

 

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[oggbashan]

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats

This reminds me.

One of my staff was in the ATS during the war, as part of the crew for an anti-aircraft gun defending London.

At first she was a loader but she qualified as a gunner and by the end of the war she had a high score of German bombers hit.

When the action was at its height the gun crew used to sing 'Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats' or 'Run Rabbit, run rabbit, run run run...'

Apparently singing kept the loading rhythm in time even when they couldn't hear each other.

I'm not sure that her memory was completely accurate. I thought that 'Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats' was post-war. [Edit: Checked. Mairzy doats published 1943, probably reached UK 1944. Would be OK for 1944 but not earlier and she was with the ATS 1940-45]

Og

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

This reminds me.

One of my staff was in the ATS during the war, as part of the crew for an anti-aircraft gun defending London.

At first she was a loader but she qualified as a gunner and by the end of the war she had a high score of German bombers hit.

You probably know that if one added up all the scores of the various guns and aircraft gunners, the entire Luftwaffe was shot down around 16 times over. I think the powers that be deliberately "went with it" for morale purposes.

Which takes nothing away from your staffer, of course. Thanks for sharing, to you and her.

 

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[Pure]

hi lilred and others,

just saying 'hi' because it's now so 'in' to be outside and because the 'inner circle' has a really broken border.

 

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[oggbashan]

You probably know that if one added up all the scores of the various guns and aircraft gunners, the entire Luftwaffe was shot down around 16 times over. I think the powers that be deliberately "went with it" for morale purposes.

Which takes nothing away from your staffer, of course. Thanks for sharing, to you and her.

Which is why she (and I, reporting her) said 'hit'. Even a direct hit might only damage a bomber. I know she was an ATS gunner, and a good one. I saw her decorations and commendations. What I wasn't so sure about was the time that she was singing 'Maizy Doats'. She served from the blitz right up to the V1 campaign at the end of the war. She wasn't singing 'Maizy Doats' in 1940. She, and her mixed gun crew, sung some very rude songs at times.

Og