I see England, I see France

[DaSwede]

Last week I saw an old episode of Moonlighting. the name of the episode was I see England, I see France, I see Maddie's netherworld. It immediately struck me as probably being a paraphrase, so I searched for that phrase barring the netherworld-part, and got tons of hits. I gather it's a 'teasing rhyme' (if that be the term) and that the last part of it would normally be I see (name)'s underpants. But even that sounds like a paraphrase to me, as if the origin was oh I don't know - a Churchill speech or something... "I see England, I see France, united in ..." etcetera. (Just fantasizing.)

Does anyone know anything about the origin - or if the rhyme is the origin.

Thanks in advance and for now, more personal thanks sometime next week.

[Robinia]

oh I love Cyndi Lolloper...a little investigation suggests it's a Dulcimer....
course it is, I shoulda known....

[VINNY100_2]

Evening biddys
erm...have you been eating all the pies again robinia..haha.yo
blimey,kips been at it tobefore and after quickly does a runner>>>whoosh(:O) this is tony beard..radio devon...he's brill when he gives orse racing tips..yo

[DaSwede]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha that's hysterical Vinny, I think you should give up your dayjob and just travel round the country amusing biddies. We'd pay, you know. Didn't catch a word Tony Beard said but I like the general sound of it, ha ha... oh god I can't stop laughing at "I'm a member of Appledore library" either, it's so tragicomic. I've been reading a book about writing, by Anne Lamott, and she says "...also, I think that most of our characters believe, as children believe, that if the truth were known, they would be seen as good people." I remember that feeling so well and that's probably why the appledore girl strikes such a cord with me.

A dulcimer, yes I should have known too Robinia (especially as my face looks like one on that before/after painting...) Btw I'm still trying to figure out even one way to use a darning mushroom... or anything of that nature Does anyone still darn socks??? Really?

come out shaney

[Robinia]

oh lordy I'm in hysterics here at Vin's pic & your cartoon Kit 'come out shaney'
I look like I've been through the mangle, hung on the line & I've frozen solid, hahahaha
even I didn't catch every word Tony Beard said - what a character he is - but I loved Willy Wonky, haha...

[Robinia]

bit quiet in here...has everyone got a date?

tut....I'll be off to bed then with my sudoku & chocolate orange

Blobninia
xx

[jno]

tut, I'll have you know some of us have to work half the night, Robinia. At least the computers were up and running this time. Apparently the problems yesterday were because a battery went flat - honest! I was told this by a noted non-leg-puller, so I guess it's true. I mean, here we are, with branches in 50-odd countries, and someone didn't put a florin in the meter and didn't have a backup computer system. How dumb is that.

[VINNY100_2]

(((*_*))) Evening....
drop of nice sun out there between the clouds....puts hair dryer out of window...aims at clouds..derbys that way...whoosh...!
bloomin eck...the forecast fer friday on the bbc says snow??are they mad....erm..must have got mixed up with derbyshire. blimey,no wonders nettis in hiding,she ate all the paella yo (:O)

[jno]

ah, here's an old favourite...

not even spring yet and already girls are showing their navels

[DaSwede]

Good night, and Happy Easter. He he he, Neti looks like a playing card, the cruel Queen of Spain.

This is what it sounds like when an Englishman speaks Swedish; Jude and Vinny may remember him: Football manager bob houghton, who coached Malm� FF a hundred years ago, being interviewed for regional television. The journalist and the other football player, towards the end of the clip, speak different varieties of my own dialect, Scanian, which I was telling you about before.

Me I talk more like television chef Tina Nordstr�m whom we see here doing unheard of things to goat's milk cheese. Not only do I talk like her, I cook like her too!
this may be painful for you to watch,shaney

Now if the rest of you could all please post your dialects, for the benefit of da foreigner!

Anyway, since the days of Houghton Roy Hodgson and Stuart Baxter and probably many many more (only I'm not interested in sports so I don't keep track) have come over to help us out so cheers England.

[DaSwede]

I'm not even ignoring you jno, why don't you go crash a computer or something ;-)

[netibiza]

Yo! that piccy of me looks like I've taken too much coke and my septum has burned away, eeuuuggghhhhh! otherwise a perfect looking woman - to my mind! Lovely day here. Just secretly cooking some sweet potato chips, yummy!!!!

[VINNY100_2]

er jno...i was just gonna have some lunch then...(:O)
while i try to find me accent kip,take a peep at woolacombe
erm..sorry bout the swearing..its them foreign students tut...yo goes of and finds me an accent (:O)

[DaSwede]

Oh you're having lunch Vinny, would you like me to fix some goat's milk cheese for you! Ain't no bother! / Woolacombe seems breathtaking even to an urban sort like me. It does remind me a little of the south of Sweden only we don't have those beautiful valleys and hills.

Hi Neti glad you haven't given your puta to George yet. Now if you could teach me the difference between chips and crisps because every time I think I've got it... I haven't.

[netibiza]

May I remind members that a <puta> in Spanish is a prostitute and I do not own one. I have an ordenador.

[netibiza]

Oh kit and your knowledge of English is so good. Anyway a chip is a thickly cut finger shaped piece of deep fried potato and a crisp is a very thin round piece of deeply fried potato (usually factory made and falsely flavoured and put into packets) I like both types.

[VINNY100_2]

yep i remember bob kip,nice chap he was.Cant find me accent but eres robinias(the one in middle) and jude and maggies yo (:O)

[jno]

well, that's in Britain, Kit... in America a chip is the thin, crisp thing; the oblong bits of potato are fries and, if they're thin, French fries. (Of course they should be Belgian fries but when GIs first came across them in the first world war they had no idea which country they were in, wartime conditions being somewhat chaotic). If you order chips with your meal in the USA, you get a heap of Walkers out of a bag.

[Robinia]

<saws through one leg of jno's chair, douses slippers with petrol & sets 'em on fire & wees in her coffee>

ah come in 'ere t'eat me cheese an tamata cob anorl if ya dowunt mind.... sa be'ave yersen

are we up a swiss mountain in Heidi now with all this goats chs? I always wanted to be Heidi, can someone post a Q about it :o)

sorry Kit, I can't find anyone speaking Nottingham or even a Derbyshire one...there was a good drama series about 4 years ago called A Thing called Love with Paul Nicholls (yummy), that was set in Nottingham & they did their best with the accent but it wasn't quite right...shame it never went onto dvd so unless you happened to see it...?

[Robinia]

<smacks Vinny with jno's chair leg>

[VINNY100_2]

Evening Pop-Pickers...(((*_*)))
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yo (:O)