Couldn't dance at all
And as for Ginger Rogers..
Don't get me started!
Don't get me started
On the delights of Rogers,
Miller, or Charisse
Miller or Charisse
What about Betty Gable
the dame with the gams
the dame with the gams (?)
Hmm, General Algebraic
Modelling Systems?
Modelling systems
are wonderful things, no?
whatever they might be
(gams is a 40s expression for legs and Betty Grable was famous for hers)
Whatever might be
Intended, it's got to have
Passed the number test
Passed the number test,
it was my talent at dart
throwing in the dark..
Throwing in the dark,
Intended to hit the cat
Got Ming Vase instead.
Got Ming vase instead
Of the Tupperware boxes
But it's less useful
And away we go!
In mind, back to love-filled youth.
Wonder where he is now?
Wonder where he is now,
That lowlife drunken scumbag
Who stole my girlfriend.
Who stole my girlfriend?
Is what poor lmur still asks.
Who can soothe him? Quick!
Who can soothe him? Quick!
Give him a bottle of "Paddy.
To forget that unfaithful chick!
That unfaithful chick!
To cause pain to one so young
A pox be on her!
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5 - 7 - 5 Dutchy :wink:
A pox be on her--
Chicken- or Small-, I don't care
Maybe even mumps
Maybe even Mumps
Could win the "Best Station" prize
Railway halt, Oldham
Railway halt, Oldham
Please McTag, can you explain
The Mumps connection?
Yes
Oldham Mumps
The area around the main railway station on the edge of Oldham town centre is known as 'Mumps'. The name Mumps or Mumps bridge first appears in the Oldham Parish Registers at the end of the 17th century. The origin of the name is not certain. Ga-mumpi is a very old word that means the land at the meeting of two streams. A stream used to run from Gravel Walks which met another stream which came from Bridgewater Street and down Brook Street (diverted when the railway was built). Another possible source for the name is that in early English dialect mumps meant alms, and a mumper was a beggar; as there was once a workhouse in the district it may have derived its name from this source.
The mumps connection
Though relatively obscure
Is nonetheless made
The Mumps connection
Comprehensively explained!
Many thanks, McTag.
