Posted on 10/08/2015 6:54:59 AM PDT by bgill
Hip college students and grown folks alike are scratching their clover-laden heads wondering who got the idea to walk around with Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden sprouting from their tresses. “I think this comes more from Western culture,” one student told the Times. “It’s fun, but I guess it’s also about protecting the environment, to show that you care about nature,” a peddler of the green headgear offered (which is interesting considering the country is one of the biggest polluters of out planet).
But probably the best explanation came from a 24-year-old medical student, who best sums up how the trend caught on: “When I first saw them, I thought, ‘that’s strange,’ but everyone was wearing them… I thought it was fun and entertaining, so I also put one on, too.”
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79c to clip a plastic plant on your head...
I wonder how long some of them worked to pay for it.
That's what I read too! LOL
Whatever it is that’s making us see that, it seems to be contagious.
I’d swear it said pants but then again I did a double take one day when I saw the section of the paper selling “Used Cats”!
Ahoy Matey! . . clomp . . . clomp . . . clomp (sound of
wooden leg tapping on wooden floor) . . . aarrrrrrrghh!
Wish I knew more “pirate language”, though. Without my wooden leg, I’m at a loss. :o/
Shiver me timbers!
This here’s all ye need t’know!:
The Pirate Song
Sixteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
“Avast there mates, ye’re sailin’
With Long John Black Beard
Peg-Leg, Patch-Eye Hook
Scourge of the bounding main
Bloodthirstiest, black-heartiest”
“Pirate captain ever sailed the seven seas ha, ha, ha
What say ye, we hoist the Jolly Roger
Heel over the yonder Spanish galleon
Lay a few broadsides agin’ her timers”
“Swing over on these here lanyards
With our cutlasses in our teeth
Cut ‘em to ribbons and split the booty
What say ye to that, me hearties?
Heh, ha, ha, ha, ha”
“I don’t like it”
“You don’t like it?”
“I don’t like it and I don’t wanna do it
It’s tacky, tacky, tacky and don’t look at me that way”
“Well, if you don’t like it, what do you want?”
I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance
I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance
Wear me silver buckled slippers and me tight shiny pants
I want to sing and dance
“You want to sing and dance, heh
You don’t like plundering, aye?
Well, shiver me timbers ‘ow ‘bout treasuring, huh?
Rubies, emeralds and pearls
Gold doubloons and British sovereigns
“Silver chalices encrusted with diamonds and jewels
Necklaces and bracelets of every shape and size
Fit for the crown heads of Europe, aye?”
“And all buried in a pirate’s chest
And I just happen to know where
How about that me bloodthirsty
Buckos, heh? Ha, ha, ha”
“I don’t like it”
“You don’t like it?”
“I don’t like it and I don’t want it”
“He don’t want it”
“And I won’t do it, I’m an artiste”
“An artiste, well, Mister Artiste, what do you want?”
I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance
I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance
Wear me silver buckled slippers and me tight shiny pants
I want to sing and dance
“Now, listen hear, this ain’t no floating Gilbert and Sullivan show
You know for some little flittin’ tinkerbell
This here be a black hearted pirate ship
And I would have you keel hauled if you weren’t me
Own flesh and blood you little twit!
So you don’t like plunderin’ aye?”
“I don’t like it”
“And you don’t want no treasurin’ ah?”
“I don’t want it”
“And you probably don’t want no groggin’ and revelin’
And wrenchin’ and rummin’ either I suppose?”
“Well, deep down you want to know the truth?
It’s not me, I don’t want it”
“Well, what do you want
As if I didn’t already bleein’ know?”
“I want to sing and dance and”
“I know, I know and wear your tight little shiny pants
Huh, okay, we’ll all sing and dance
I said, we’ll all sing and dance
Or you’ll walk the plank, one two free”
I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance
I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance
Wear me silver buckled slippers and me tight shiny pants
I want to sing and dance
(”You hear the Captain and twit’s voice say”)
“I like it, I like it”
“I kinda like it me own self”
“Thought you would”
Sixteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
“I don’t like rum”
“You don’t like rum?”
“Well, no, actually, well, I might like a little Perrier”
“A little Perrier?”
“With a lime in it”
“A lime in it? He wants a lime in it”
“Well, do you have any Escargot?”
“Escar, what?”
“What’s the soup today?”
“Soup?”
“Might have a bit of a salad too”
“Well, how about a bleeding finger bowl?”
“Maybe a croissant, is that right?
Those French make everything so hard
Why didn’t they just call it a bun?”
Songwriters
C.w. (jr) Kalb;Carlene Kalb
Published by
RAY STEVENS MUSIC
Someone ,somewhere ,is peeing themselves with laughter.
“ such a simple idea for a joke ,and it worked! ‘
Sits in a chair stroking his White kittie .....
“ Bwhaa haa haaar , “
And it isn’t my fault!
LOL!
wonder if they improve wi-fi reception?
I’ll just email ceidwyn and check....
Whoever has the ownership of this wheeze is a superstar amongst pranksters.
Somewhere in the Great hall of the people in Beijing .....
An ancient wrinkled hand reaches for the wifi control knob, and turns up the power....
“ listen carefully , this is central committee .....”
Ah so....they have heard this before from the Great Helmsman himself.
“The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science.” —— Mousie Dung
...and we all know what followed.
I sense...I sense a potential future UT....
GAW!! These sound like a bunch of Pantywaist Pirates to me! A bunch of blabbering Pantywaist Hollywood Pirates to me. - We used to go over to Okracoke Island, NC and stay a
couple of days where they had a big old mural of Blackbeard’s severed head in the dining room. Har-de-har-har! Didn’t ruin me appetite. No sir!
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