#70196
05/17/2002 2:11 PM
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They left a bunch of stuff out of the threes category: the three bears, the three billy goats gruff. From the Bible we have surely, goodness and mercy; love, hope and charity. In the business world Salomon, Smith, Barney. Then we have Borders, Books and Music. There's Aber, Crombie and Fitch. The priest, the minister and the rabbi that figure in so many jokes. We talk about the ABCs of something, meaning the basics. The list is endless.
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#70197
05/17/2002 2:58 PM
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> endless
to say nothing preferably! about the father, the son, and the wholly goat ;)
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#70198
05/17/2002 3:11 PM
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Mon Dieu, the billy goats gruff...how did that go again. I have a vague memory niggling at my brain - a primary school thing - so you know it is loooooong ago 
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#70199
05/17/2002 3:14 PM
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Billy Goats Gruff? Something about a troll under a bridge, I think...
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#70200
05/17/2002 3:41 PM
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troll Leave it to the Norsewoman to know about trolls! They are a common sight in my (Norwegian) in-laws' place! (OK, not real trolls, but drawings, statues, carvings...and most recently, a photo of the in-laws themselves with a life-sized one!)
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#70201
05/17/2002 4:01 PM
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Winken,Blinken and Nod. Can't remember who they were. The butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker. Cast them out all three. Here's URL to the nursery rhyme: http://www.starstogether.tierranet.com/kids/winken.htm
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#70202
05/17/2002 4:15 PM
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winken blinken and nod, a poem by eugene field..
winken and blinken are two little eyes,
and nod is a little head..
Oh, here is the whole thing (once i knew it all by heart, but now i only remember i have a little shadow by RLS
Winken, Blinken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe --
Sailed off on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in the beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!"
Said Winken,
Blinken,
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sang a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them al night long
Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring fish
That lived in the beautiful sea --
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish --
Never afeard are we";
So cried the stars to the fisherman three:
Winken,
Blinken,
And Nod.
All night long their nets they threw
To the stars in the twinkling foam --
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe
Bringing the fisherman home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea --
But I shall name you the fishermen three:
Winken,
Blinken,
And Nod.
Winken and Blinken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoes that sailed the skies
Is the wee one's trundle-bed.
So shut your eyes while mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked hte fisherman three:
Winken,
Blinken,
And Nod.
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#70203
05/17/2002 4:25 PM
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Billy Goats Gruff? Something about a troll under a bridge, I think...
Trip trap, trip trap came the biggest billy goat gruff. He was the one who tossed the troll off the bridge, as he proved too big for the troll to eat.
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#70204
05/17/2002 4:26 PM
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#70205
05/17/2002 4:52 PM
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Three blind mice?
Inchmee and Pinchmee went down to the river. Inchmee fell in. Who was left to save him?
getting my thumb and fore finger ready...
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#70206
05/17/2002 5:05 PM
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Dear musck: Inchmee and Pinchmee baffled search attempts.
When I was ten, I was puzzled by little half-dollar sized aluminum containers seen in the gutter that said on the lid: Three Merry Widows, Agnes, Mabel, and Becky.
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#70207
05/17/2002 6:12 PM
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It used to be a merry prank to put one of the Three Merry Widows over tailpipe of a parked car. When owner started motor, back pressure made it misbehave, while an obscened apparition was thrashing around until it burst, behind the automobile.
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#70208
05/17/2002 6:16 PM
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Geez, Dr. Bill, and all this time I thought you were talking about tins of chewing tobacco. [ahem]
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#70209
05/17/2002 6:27 PM
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In twos they gave Beulah's ass. Parm my beg to differmints, but wasn't that Balaam's ass?
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#70210
05/17/2002 6:59 PM
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#70211
05/17/2002 7:32 PM
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Dear Faldage: Diligent search revealed no citations of Beulah's Ass, only Beulah Land.
I disremember Sunday School joke about the stretchiest man in the Bible, who tied his ass to a tree and walked fifty miles.
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#70212
05/17/2002 7:43 PM
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...put one of the Three Merry Widows over tailpipe of a parked car...
I ain't touchin' that with an eleven foot pole (ours go to eleven).
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#70213
05/17/2002 7:49 PM
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Dear Musick: It must have been terribly uncomfortable for her.
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#70214
05/17/2002 8:00 PM
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And this grouping that follows would never appear on anybody's list 'cept mine, but I do think of this triad:
alacrity, celerity, legerity
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#70215
05/17/2002 8:01 PM
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That is truly fascinating. Thanks for coming up with that.
TEd
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#70216
05/17/2002 8:30 PM
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our minister always referred to the Father, the Son and the holy Spigot
Daddy-O, Junior, and Spook
And on the more general subject of triads:
the three Furies: Tisiphone (avenger of murder), Megaera (the jealous one), and Alecto (unceasing in anger).
the three judges of the Underworld: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus.
the three witches of Macbeth
the Olympic motto: Citius, altius, fortius ("faster, higher, stronger")
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#70217
05/17/2002 8:40 PM
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TEd
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#70219
05/17/2002 11:03 PM
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I ain't touchin' that with an eleven foot pole (ours go to eleven).
Designed by Spinal Tap, were they?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#70220
05/17/2002 11:25 PM
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CapK - Of course!
Four Score - How much?
Pieces of Eight - Where does this come from?
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#70221
05/18/2002 12:02 AM
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> And on the more general subject of triads:
An extract from a poem I wrote to my wife, years ago, on our first Valentine's Day as parents:
Our wedding: one and one makes one;
Our baby: one and one makes three.
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#70222
05/18/2002 12:04 AM
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fourscore = 80 Gettysburg address
This problem was critical as it adversely affected local commerce and forced
the colonists to turn to foreign coins, primarily Spanish American silver produced
in Mexico and Peru. The most widely used coin in the colonies was the eight reales
(piece of eight), primarily clipped underweight examples that had made their way
north from Mexico through the Bahamas. The eight reales
was the highes unit of Spanish silver in the New World, similar in size and weight
to the thalers of the various German states, the French écu, the Portuguese
cruzado and the ducatoon of Holland; colonists called the eight reales coin
a "dollar," from the Dutch"daalder" (a derivative of the German thaler).
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#70223
05/18/2002 12:11 PM
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and the eight reales was sometimes clipped at Dr. Bill points out..it was also quartered, and today, some US's will still call a a quarter "two bits". left over slang, put to new purpose.
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#70224
05/18/2002 12:16 PM
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Cool, Helen and Bill!
Reales and bits. I'll bet that shave and a haircut--two bits jingle has troubled many a mind for its deep hidden meaning, huh?
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#70225
05/18/2002 1:25 PM
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not to mention the phrase two-bit whore. [  -- but word-related]
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#70226
05/18/2002 1:56 PM
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not to mention the phrase two-bit whore.
Does this refer to the woman on the home fix-up show on PBS who has a drill in each hand, and sells her services?
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#70227
05/18/2002 4:41 PM
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Eight reindeer. I know, I know...Rudolph makes nine....but he's not a part of the original myth.
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#70228
05/18/2002 6:49 PM
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Rudolph ... he's not a part of the original myth.
Created as an advertising icon for Montgomery Ward's, I believe.
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#70229
05/18/2002 6:53 PM
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Depending upon source:
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner
Blitzen
Or the same list except Donner is Donder.
Depends upon whether you're singing the song or reciting the poem.
Just for the record...
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#70230
05/18/2002 10:48 PM
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Have we all forgotten Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
And the Tolkien fan that I am, I think of the 13 dwarves... let me try this without help... Thorin Oakenshield, Fili and Kili, Dori, Nori, and Ori, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur, Oin and Gloin, Dwalin and Balin [yay! i did it!]
We had two little fish once names Fili and Kili. We also had a mexican fighting fish names Smaug. One morning, there was no Fili or Kili...
alexis
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#70231
05/18/2002 11:50 PM
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> One morning, there was no Fili or Kili... awww! turned into fillet and killit...  now jist howd'we pernunce that fill-ay word agin...?
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#70232
05/19/2002 12:51 PM
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I think of the 13 dwarves
There were thirteen of them? I thought there were only seven.
Umm, lessee, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Snorri, Doc, Happy
and Lumpy?
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#70233
05/19/2002 1:01 PM
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Snorri and Lumpy?
Wasn't there a Lumpy on Leave It to Beaver? Maybe he was a dwarf and I never realized it. Live and learn again...
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#70234
05/19/2002 1:01 PM
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Lumpy?No, Faldage...I think that last elf was Nitty-Picky.
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