In reply to:

ENOUGH TO GAG A MAGGOT OFF A GUT WAGON - yuk!
from Jo--

Does any one here remember the words to the great lunch time song--
Great big gob of greasy, grimey gopher meat,
Mutiltated monkey meat,
.....

.... And me with out a spoon?

I know the english have songs in a similar vein*, but spoken expressions like the one quoted seem to me be to be particulary american.

*I am not thinking of some of the great bawdy ballards, ("I saw a maiden milk a bull, with every pull a bucket full... ) but song like "What a mouth, what a mouth, what an awfull mouth he had!...." about a the guy who fell asleep with his jaw agape, and the coal truck filled it, ...
and the english version of
Miss Lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,
Miss Lucy went to Heaven, the steamboat went to
Hell-o operator, give me number nine..

the only line i remember for the English version went
He fell on pile of...
Shine your button with Brass-o,
Its only tu'pence a tin, You can by it, or nick it from Woolworths


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