Why isn’t that song ‘Mary HAS a little lamb’? Are we supposed to take away some lesson from the use of the past tense? And is that a cooking lesson? Curry, perhaps?
And old one but classic. How old? I have WWI postcards with variations on the scenes.
Mary had a little lamb. She ate it with mint jelly. Everywhere that Mary went, The lamb went riding in her belly.
Mary had a little bear. To whom she was quite kind. And everywhere that Mary went, You’d see her bear behind.
Thanks. I know the Edison story, but I got the idea Adam was becoming progressively killy – first the pop-up ad dudes, then the makers of motion-activated toys, and right after that the lamb snuffed it. Am unsure how I feel about the lamb having been dead for a century already.
This reminds me of the Alexa laughing bug which creeped out Alexa users recently.
Poltergeist is totally the reason for my (not-so) unreasonable fear of clowns. Well…that and those freaking Oompaloompas.
Why isn’t that song ‘Mary HAS a little lamb’? Are we supposed to take away some lesson from the use of the past tense? And is that a cooking lesson? Curry, perhaps?
And old one but classic. How old? I have WWI postcards with variations on the scenes.
Mary had a little lamb. She ate it with mint jelly. Everywhere that Mary went, The lamb went riding in her belly.
Mary had a little bear. To whom she was quite kind. And everywhere that Mary went, You’d see her bear behind.
Thanks. I know the Edison story, but I got the idea Adam was becoming progressively killy – first the pop-up ad dudes, then the makers of motion-activated toys, and right after that the lamb snuffed it. Am unsure how I feel about the lamb having been dead for a century already.
[Cleese voice] Well if not properly preserved it would tend to get a bit gamey.
Yeah, no kidding.
On the plus side, your list of ingenious deaths for those who disobey you is getting longer and weirder