[lit-ideas] Re: just a test
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:22:43 EST
Very amusing versions! The ways of Google are mysterious indeed -- I
entered "back to back they faced each other drew their swords and shot each
other)
as what I thought was most likely the least varied line and ......nothing
relevant. Ah well......95% of the time I get the search right. And thanks!
Julie Krueger
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Date: 12/7/2006 5:10:00 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _rpaul@xxxxxxxxx
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Julie:
> Okay, now I'm perplexed. I used both Google & Wikipedia searching using
> various lines from the ditty and neither one showed anything except
> someone's
> personal page or blog or something where a gal quotes the same stanza in
a
> slightly different version. Over the years I've come across this
> thing in many
> variations. I was sure there was a second "stanza". It doesn't
> matter, isn't
> important, but now that both Google and Wiki have let me down I'm
perplexed!
From Wikipedia:
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back-to-back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And rushed to save the two dead boys.
A paralyzed donkey walking by,
Kicked the copper in the eye,
Sent him through a rubber wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.
(If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)
From the British Columbia Folk Lore Society via Google
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Journalandindex.htm
(Click on the relevant line.)
"One fine day in the middle of the night" (Journal Versions)
1. One fine day in the middle of the night,
2. Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
3. Back to back they faced each other,
4. Drew their swords and shot each other,
5. One was blind and the other couldn't, see
6. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
7. A blind man went to see fair play,
8. A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
9. A paralysed donkey passing by,
10. Kicked the blind man in the eye,
11. Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
12. Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
13. A deaf policeman heard the noise,
14. And came to arrest the two dead boys,
15. If you don't believe this story?s true,
16. Ask the blind man he saw it too!
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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