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If you make a fist with one hand and point at the knuckles and valleys with a finger while naming the months,either switching hands or bouncing on the last and coming back, you get which months have 31 days (the knuckles) and which don't (the valleys). Never as useful as remembering your left hand makes an L.
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I've heard that blondes get "TGIF" printed on their shoes...
Nothing to do with "Thank God it's Friday".......
Toes Go In First.
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In reply to:
The camel has a single hump,
The dromendary, two.
Or else the other way around...
I'm never sure. Are you?
(and btw, it is the other way around.)
Reminds me of:
The one elled lama, he's a priest,
The two elled llama, he's a beast,
I'll bet you your pyjama
You've never seen a three elled lllama.
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Your attention is invited to an urban conflagration known as a three alarmer.
This is how Nash ended his original poem.
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"etyminfo" ============================================================ And Bingley--that's pajama, or was your mama a llama? 
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No, my mum's not a llama, but she has been known to get the hump [reminiscent quaking].
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to get the hump
Bingley, I confess I'm rather shocked--you seldom if ever visit the gutter. But, obviously she did--you're here, aren't you?
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We have - yet again - the US-UK linguistic divide rearing its fascinating head again.
Pyjama is the usual spelling for us Brits; and "having the hump" is a very old-fashioned way of saying that you are in a foul mood.
('Tis an expression that my Mama used as well, Bingley! She used to recite a comic poem about "... you'll get the hump, the camelious hump, the hump that is black and blue." For the life of me, I can't remember the rest of it - any offers?)
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Rhuby: http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/camel.htm (at the end); spelled with a double "e" He to she: Do you love Kipling? She (dumb blonde): I dunno [giggle]; I've never kippled before.
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Thanks, Rhuby; I knew someone would take up the gauntlets I flung.  Here's your poem, my Dear--It's from Kipling's Just So Stories, "How the Camel Got His Hump".
THE Camel's hump is an ugly lump
Which well you may see at the Zoo;
But uglier yet is the hump we get
From having too little to do.
Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,
If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
We get the hump--
Cameelious hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
And a snarly-yarly voice.
We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
At our bath and our boots and our toys;
And there ought to be a corner for me
(And I know there is one for you)
When we get the hump--
Cameelious hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire;
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire;
And then you will find that the sun and the wind.
And the Djinn of the Garden too,
Have lifted the hump--
The horrible hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
I get it as well as you-oo-oo--
If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo--
We all get hump--
Cameelious hump--
Kiddies and grown-ups too! You can read the story, with illustrations, here: http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/camel.htm
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