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Alexander: Bravo! Prefer your triple rhyme. These trinkets are very much
subject to the oral folk process. If the Listmasters will allow (on the
plausible grounds that Nabokov was fond of comic ³verse or worse²) here¹s a
delightful example also relying on alternative names for things. In this
case you need to know that Sarum is the Latin for Salisbury, and that Hants
is an abbrev. For` Hampshire.
There was a man from Salisbury
Whose manners were Halisbury-Scalisbury
He ran around Hampshire
Without any Pampshire
Til his wife shouted Why don¹t you Walisbury?²
Many variants on ³D H Lawewnce loved Florence, but Compton MacKenzie
preferred Firenzi.²
Often wonder if VN ever joined any of the offbeat Cambridge Univ. ³social²
clubs. Apart from his Soccer goalkeeping (and Tennis?) exploits, he seemed
to have shunned the typically varied social student life. In my day there
was the boozy Kerriemuir Society devoted to adding verses (some 300 they
claim) to the eponymous bawdy ballad (³Four an¹ twenty virgins cam doon frae
Inverness, and whan the Ba¹ [Ball] was ower, there was four an¹ twenty less
...²)
Skb
On 20/02/2009 01:24, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: Botkin, V
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:06:23 -0500
> From: Alexander Drescher <alexander@musicwoodsfarm.com>
> <mailto:alexander@musicwoodsfarm.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> References: <C5C28F0F.3A3A%skb@bootle.biz>
> <mailto:C5C28F0F.3A3A%skb@bootle.biz>
>
> This message was originally
> Possible variant for most non-Brits:
>
> Her aunt, with a gasp,
> "That's a wasp in your grasp..
>
> a[s]d
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:
>> > ...
>> >
>> > ** Elaine will know of the Menzies pronounced Mingus spelling
>> > quirk, but for others there¹s a helpful lmerick
>> >
>> > A lively young damsel named Menzies
>> > Inquired: "Do you know what this thenzies?"
>> > Her aunt, with a gasp,
>> > Replied: "It's a wasp,
>> > And you're holding the end where the stenzies."
>> >
>> > skb
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subject to the oral folk process. If the Listmasters will allow (on the
plausible grounds that Nabokov was fond of comic ³verse or worse²) here¹s a
delightful example also relying on alternative names for things. In this
case you need to know that Sarum is the Latin for Salisbury, and that Hants
is an abbrev. For` Hampshire.
There was a man from Salisbury
Whose manners were Halisbury-Scalisbury
He ran around Hampshire
Without any Pampshire
Til his wife shouted Why don¹t you Walisbury?²
Many variants on ³D H Lawewnce loved Florence, but Compton MacKenzie
preferred Firenzi.²
Often wonder if VN ever joined any of the offbeat Cambridge Univ. ³social²
clubs. Apart from his Soccer goalkeeping (and Tennis?) exploits, he seemed
to have shunned the typically varied social student life. In my day there
was the boozy Kerriemuir Society devoted to adding verses (some 300 they
claim) to the eponymous bawdy ballad (³Four an¹ twenty virgins cam doon frae
Inverness, and whan the Ba¹ [Ball] was ower, there was four an¹ twenty less
...²)
Skb
On 20/02/2009 01:24, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: Botkin, V
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:06:23 -0500
> From: Alexander Drescher <alexander@musicwoodsfarm.com>
> <mailto:alexander@musicwoodsfarm.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> References: <C5C28F0F.3A3A%skb@bootle.biz>
> <mailto:C5C28F0F.3A3A%skb@bootle.biz>
>
> This message was originally
> Possible variant for most non-Brits:
>
> Her aunt, with a gasp,
> "That's a wasp in your grasp..
>
> a[s]d
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:
>> > ...
>> >
>> > ** Elaine will know of the Menzies pronounced Mingus spelling
>> > quirk, but for others there¹s a helpful lmerick
>> >
>> > A lively young damsel named Menzies
>> > Inquired: "Do you know what this thenzies?"
>> > Her aunt, with a gasp,
>> > Replied: "It's a wasp,
>> > And you're holding the end where the stenzies."
>> >
>> > skb
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