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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:PHILA -at- MAIL -dot- VIPS -dot- COM Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:42:39 -0400
I grew up hearing my father singing "Glory, glory hallelooooljah!" with
great gusto in the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
And then there was the classmate who was certain the line from the Hail Mary
was "Blessed are you, a monk swimmin."
When my son loved the Pogues song, "The Gartloney Rats," I couldn't resist
bowdlerizing it a bit..."They never got drunk but stayed sober" turned into
"They never had lumps in their sofas." He still thinks that's the title of
the song.
Phila
Philomena Hoopes
Phila -at- vips -dot- com
VIPS Healthcare Information Solutions
(410) 832-8330 ext 845
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean DiSabito [mailto:jdisabito -at- PRIORITYCALL -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:37 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
How about my best friend who always said absolupely instead
of absolutely. AARGGGHHHH......
Or
When my son was little and said his prayers "Hello Mary -
full of Grace"
This thread is hilarious!
Jean
-----Original Message-----
From: Suzie Elliott [SMTP:suziee -at- MCCALLPATTERN -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:08 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
>It was just last year that I realized that the verse in the
Christmas
>song "Jingle Bells" wasn't "...one horse soap and
sleigh..."
As a ten-year-old, I thought Curly was singing about a
surrey with
"highsy-class curtains you can roll right down." Nope,
isenglass
curtains! Whatever the heck *they* are.
And instead of "round yon virgin mother and child" (I swear
this is
true), I used to sing "Long John Silver, mother and child."
