Here’s a riff on Puck and Phoebe. No splainin’ required here, I think. “Aroint thee,” by the way, is a Shakespearean version of ‘go away’ that I swiped from Macbeth. “‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed runion cried.” Man, what a good line. I had to steal it.
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My family are pretty big on shakespearean insults… which is mostly my fault (as the eldest brother). Home was a whole mess of arointing, thumb-biting, dismissing to nunneries and poxes on houses.
Everything is WAY better with a pox on it.
I want you to google “pox” go to images and say that again.
I once had a conversation inspired by the Tweetle Beetles scene in Fox in Socks. I had a tentative date with a friend for some target shooting, and she wrote to postpone it because she broke a tooth. We agreed that her message was a fang prang bang ping, and if she had used telephone rather than email, and moaned about it at such length that I cut the connexion, it would be a hung long fang prang bang ping ring.
(My handle has nothing to do with teeth: it’s meant as Elvish for ‘copper beard’.)
Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms. Ben’s band bangs and Bim’s band booms. Seriously, I know the whole book off by heart. My all-time favourite Seuss.
My mother (who once upon a time was an elementary education major) was introduced to Fox in Socks when she had to read major amounts of children’s literature for class.
Naturally, it became one of my favorites. I was kind of a sadistic kid that way – I made them read it just to hear them stumble over the words.
Of course, they threw it right back at me: my son got a copy for his first Christmas. When reading it to him, I once got all the way to Bim and Ben without making a mistake. Problem is, I get there, and it usually comes out, “Ben’s brent broom… gah!” 🙂
Thanks to intense practice (which occurred during my son’s toddlerdom), I can now read the thing front to back with no slips whatsoever. That said, a flawless reading of Fox in Socks really does take a bit of the magic away from the experience. Once I’d mastered the book, my son kind of lost interest in it. Half the fun was watching dad struggle.
Apply arointment liberally to pox affected area three (3) times daily.
@CH
In the meantime, buy burial plot.
Too busy paying for prenatal care. Girlfriend getting induced Wednesday if she doesn’t go into labor before then.
Wtf. Why are all my comments awaiting moderation?
Sniff… SNIFF. I smell a flag on my account.
@CH
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Scaring the chicks away is pretty much the worst possible sin in any forum.
Skinny, Fat, and anywhere in between, women are awesome.
I, for one, want to be surrounded by as many as possible.
So …. BEHAVE !
(because when you’re nice, CH, you’re pretty damn funny)