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just got this in email....
JAMES (age 4)was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?'
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Death of a Fly
Fly see saucer
fly fly down
me see fly fly
fly walk round
fly take big sip
me take spoon
fly look wrong way
spoon go BOOM
cup go wobble
tea go splat
fly look wrong way
fly got flat
fly not fly now
fly not sip
fly just flied on final trip It is a good one Bex....yours or borrowed??
----please, draw me a sheep----
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just got this in email....
JAMES (age 4)was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?' Out of the mouths of children.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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to take his wife and flee out of the city
The Bible and church songs were always a good source of all kinds of funny misinterpretations I remember. While the text was about "require of" I understood it as "ice cream".
(confusing 'eis' with 'ijs'; the sound being exactly the same for both words).
The ice cream promised was never offered. ha!
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Faldage, you going to add your 2+ Gladly?
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Faldage, you going to add your 2+ Gladly? Huh? Gladly the cross-eyed bear?
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to take his wife and flee out of the city
The Bible and church songs were always a good source of all kinds of funny misinterpretations I remember. While the text was about "require of" I understood it as "ice cream".
(confusing 'eis' with 'ijs'; the sound being exactly the same for both words).
The ice cream promised was never offered. ha! Many children's misinterpretations float around here on the 'net. They are often very funny.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Gladly the cross-eyed bear? 'Deed and indeed; nicely caught!
Edit: whoa, a better catch than I realized--that was supposed to be 2¢, not 2+. [smacking self e]
Last edited by Jackie; 02/10/11 03:49 AM.
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Luke, I borrowed it from a comic verse collection for children...not sure if I got all the words right, I'll check later. It came into my head as I was reading about the flea/fly comments. Sadly that is probably the only poem I can still remember almost word for word...possibly because of its simplicity! I don't have as much time to read poems any more...
----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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Sadly memorizing poetry is pretty much in a disappearing
act in today's schools. I know of none where it is used
as a technique of learning. (Probably the same with
multiplication tables, but on that I am not too sure.)
Funny how we remember poems like that, and others we
forget.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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