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Old 08-14-2009, 09:01 PM   #16
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I had that 45 when I was a kid. My grandma and I sang it together. The beauty of it was that when you were young, you thought about how it sounded vs how it was spelled. Actually kind of brilliant. I think it was my induction to listening to the subtleties of the English language, because I could actually hear the difference between "Mairzy doats" and "Mares eat oats" when I parsed it out in my head.

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I know a ditty nutty as a fruitcake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you-oo?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?


eta: when I think about it my grandma played it on a big old record, on her console stereo she had. It looked a lot like this:
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Old 08-14-2009, 10:37 PM   #17
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I thought I remembered reading that several communities were trying to use goats to keep the kudzu in check as well.
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Old 08-14-2009, 11:05 PM   #18
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My goats love to eat everything! Including Kaluha, who decided to eat the shed one day...
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Old 08-14-2009, 11:09 PM   #19
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I thought I remembered reading that several communities were trying to use goats to keep the kudzu in check as well.
Sort of an "immovable-object-meets-irresistible-force" kinda-thing. I like!
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Old 08-14-2009, 11:43 PM   #20
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I read some communities in CA were hiring goats to clear the flammable brush, especially on steep hillsides, around their homes. Partially because it's cheaper and more efficient, and partially to get around CA's laws.
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Old 08-15-2009, 03:50 AM   #21
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Our local municipal reservoir can only use goats on the face of the dam because anything else can injure the face causing rapid erosion, followed by a burst dam, surging maelstrom, fleeing victims, etc., etc.
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Old 08-15-2009, 04:14 AM   #22
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I read some communities in CA were hiring goats to clear the flammable brush, especially on steep hillsides, around their homes. Partially because it's cheaper and more efficient, and partially to get around CA's laws.
It's ok to let goats do that, because illegal aliens won't do that kind of work anyway.
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Old 08-15-2009, 07:58 AM   #23
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Looks like a great place to be a goat. Pete just put the big goats in our temporary electric between the house and a permanent enclosure. The little guys were in there all week but were too busy playing on the rock pile to decimate their surroundings.
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Old 08-15-2009, 01:21 PM   #24
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Guess they weren't hungry enough, probably because to feed them too well.
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Old 08-15-2009, 02:16 PM   #25
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Yeah, kids today...
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Old 08-15-2009, 03:50 PM   #26
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Yeah, kids today...


You've been holding that back waiting for the perfect moment, haven't you.
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Old 08-15-2009, 04:03 PM   #27
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There is a goat farm at Ft. Bragg. Goats are good for lots of things.
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Old 08-15-2009, 04:15 PM   #28
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You've been holding that back waiting for the perfect moment, haven't you.
I may have been years, butt it was worth it.
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Old 08-15-2009, 07:33 PM   #29
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The police station at Bryon Bay, Australia, has a sheep in the yard as a lawn trimmer.

Its name? Bob.

Well, Ali might get it. For everyone else:

Pre-1966, Australia used non-decimal currency, including a shilling, which (a) had a picture of a merino sheep on one side and (b) was referred to as a "bob". There you go.

One night some rapscallion abducted Bob from his yard. The cheek! He was safely returned.

Then Bob grew old and passed away. His replacement?

Two Bob, of course.
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Old 08-16-2009, 12:53 AM   #30
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Goats are good for lots of things.
Yeah, if ya bugger 'em on the edge of a cliff, they push back...
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