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If anyone asks to pick your brain, offer a surgical saw.

I'm not letting anyone give ME a lobotomy! 😂

Jazzy wrote: "Rosemarie it's raining on my bed and other belongings in my one room flat. I waited all day but no one has arrived to take a look. I went out and bought a large plastic container to catch the rain ..."

How awful!

Still nothing. 😒

When eating, it's best to remember that there's a fine line between "pleasantly full" and "movement is possible but not a good idea".

I hope someone fixes your roof soon, Jazzy.

Thanks Jim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBd8...

Jazzy wrote: "Still nothing. 😒"

I didn't think of it until right now, but a local musician who moved to my home area and used to play at a pub on the weekends had a song where the refrain went (:

"Roofers don't come when it's raining,
If it's raining, don't bother to call,
Roofers don't come when it's raining,

(then something about it being too slippery and they'll fall).

It's not on Youtube or anywhere online, and I don't even have the doggone LP anymore (or anywhere to play it.)

In any event, the roof is leaking in the rain and some of the lyrics in the verses were quite funny. Since I grew up on the west coast of BC where we get a lot of rain, it was always appropriate.

A one and a two in the same bathroom/loo/washroom session, is a three. Simple math.

There's too many kids in this tub
There's too many elbows to scrub
I just washed a behind
That I'm sure wasn't mine
There's too many kids in this tub!

The U.S. is one of three countries in the world that doesn't use the metric system. It has a law that makes it optional.

Josephine, Josephine
The meanest girl I ever seen
Her eyes are red
Her hair is green
She takes a bath in kerosene

I detect a bath theme going on with your limericks, Jazzy! Here's a non-limerick bath poem from online:

Bath Time
♡

'Bath time, ' says Mama kangaroo.
Junior kangaroo starts to whine,
'Oh Mama, please, I don't want to, '
'I like being dirty just fine.'
But Mama points right at the tub,
Directing Junior where to hop.
Then Mama commences to scrub,
And Junior thinks 'twill never stop.
Junior continues to complain
'The soap is burning up my eyes.'
But Mama knows there is no pain,
'It's baby shamroo, ' she replies.

As Mama scrubs, Junior yells, 'Ouch, '
'You scrubbed me softer in your pouch.'

A clapping rhyme:

Miss Lucie had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim

He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bath tub
But it wouldn't go down his throat

Miss Lucie called the doctor
Miss Lucie called the nurse
Miss Lucie called the lady
With the alligator purse

Mumps- said the doctor
Measles -said the nurse
Nothing - said the lady
With the alligator purse

I'm loving these
Now onto the skipping rhymes....!

Cinderella dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss a fella
Half-way up her girdle busted
How many people were disgusted...?

1, 2, 3....

Rosemarie wrote: "A clapping rhyme:

Miss Lucie had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim

He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bath tub
But..."

I hadn't realized that it was for clapping--it was on one of my kids' music CDs with a melody. But it fits the theme!

My kids had this song as well, sung by this woman but it was penned and originally performed by Mr. Rogers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Mkm...

You'll Never Go Down the Drain

Yes to skipping rhymes! However, my mind is blanking on the one we used to do.

teddy bear, teddy bear
Turn around
teddy bear teddy bear
Touch the ground
teddy bear teddy bear
climb the stairs
teddy bear teddy bear
say your prayers
teddy bear teddy bear
turn out the light
teddy bear teddy bear
say goodnight!

Karin wrote: "My kids had this song as well, sung by this woman but it was penned and originally performed by Mr. Rogers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Mkm...

You'll Never Go Down the Drain"

ah not available in my country. sniffle. I'll look it up!

Rosemarie wrote: "A clapping rhyme:

Miss Lucie had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim

He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bath tub
But..."

Oh this brings back fun memories! In elementary school, us girls did this clapping song all the time.

Jazzy wrote: "Karin wrote: "My kids had this song as well, sung by this woman but it was penned and originally performed by Mr. Rogers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Mkm...

You'll Never Go Down the Drai..."
Yes, you can probably find it with Mr. Rogers singing it.

My daughter Hope shared this. Too good not to re-share.

It is perfectly OK to talk to yourself. Only when you argue with yourself and lose do you run into trouble.

Jim wrote: "It is perfectly OK to talk to yourself. Only when you argue with yourself and lose do you run into trouble."

Yes. Plus nowadays people just think you're using a blue tooth.

It took me a while to get used to seeing people shopping solo and chatting away when they first started using those.

Haaaa yes, and there I be trying to talk back to them, and you hear them say, Hang on - some nutter in the shop thinks i'm talking to them.

Jazzy wrote: "Haaaa yes, and there I be trying to talk back to them, and you hear them say, Hang on - some nutter in the shop thinks i'm talking to them."

Thanks for the belly laugh!

lareviewofbooks (dot) org (forward slash) article (forward slash) landmark-princess (forward slash)

Fab article on the damage and destruction to the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, 1964

What a great place to read!

See See my playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more - more more!

So sorry playmate
I can't come out today
My dolly's got the flu!
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
I have have no rainbow,
I have no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more - more more!

Jazzy wrote: "See See my playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more - more more..."

Oh wow this is another one of those clapping songs I remember from childhood! Fun blast from the past!

Jazzy wrote: "I'm loving these
Now onto the skipping rhymes....!

Cinderella dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss a fella
Half-way up her girdle busted
How many people were disgusted...?

1, 2, 3...."



The only rhymes I have known so far were the lady with the alligator purse and this one. We used both as Jump Rope chants.

There should be two people holding ends of a long jump rope. The line of jumpers waits until the rhyme starts to run in:

Cinderella dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss a fella
Made a mistake and kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?

1,2,3,4...until the jumper misses or the others in line complain and he/she runs out.

Another jump rope rhyme: The jumper must do the actions while jumping.

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Turn around

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Touch the ground

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Give a little kick

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Run out quick

we had the teddy bear too

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear
Touch the ground
Teddy bear Teddy bear
Climb the stairs
Teddy bear Teddy Bear
Say your prayers
Teddy bear Teddy bear
Say Goodnight
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear
Turn out the Light!

I used to collect these in a handwritten notebook. Surely I can think of some more...!

Jingle bells Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel and the
Penguin flew away

or

And the joker ran away HA HA HA

Oops I lied. We also sang the playmate song only it was "Say, Say little playmate". It had actions as a clapping game for two people:

first line lock pinkies on both hand

lines 3 - to end of stanza
back palms slap front palms slap on the pick up notes
per beats - slap thighs, clap, cross clap right palms, clap, cross slap left palms, clap, back palms slap, front palms slap, repeat.

Ha that probably makes no sense at all. I tried to find videos but none of them are the way we did it.

I was introduced to kinder (age 4&5) with these two rhymes

Bang Bang you're dead
brush your teeth and go to bed

(to the tune of Row Row Row your boat)
Marijuana, Marijuana LSD LSD
Scientists make it, Teachers take it
Why can't we? Why can't we?

It would be many many years before I had any idea what that was about!

Jazzy wrote: ""

Wow, there seems to be a history of attacking this statue. Some things I will never understand.

Jazzy wrote: "Jingle bells Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel and the
Penguin flew away

or

And the joker ran away HA HA HA"


Our version:

Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The batmobile lost a wheel
and Batgirl broke her leg

oh poor batgirl!

We cupped hands together, for See See we swUng them back and forth.

1. My - clap hands

2. Play - clap right hands with each other,

3. clap hands

4. Mate - clap left hands with each other

Repeat claps 1-4 through out song til swung hands at beginning of next verse.

clap hands twice.

ohhhh I forgot at the end you hit backs of hands together,
Then fronts of hands together. two at once.

when Billy Boy was one he learned to suck his thumb
So thumb-si-oca
Thumb-si-ca
Half past one
Cross down....

Do you know that one?

Kumbalata, kumbalata
Kumbalata vista
Kumbalata, kumbalata
Kumbalata vista
No, no, no, no, no la vista
No, no, no, no, no la vista
Eeny Meenie Eximeeny
Ooh wah na wanna meenie
Eeny Meenie Eximeeny
Ooh wah na wanna meenie
No, no, no, no, no la vista
No, no, no, no, no la vista

oh ...this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fUz...

A Camp Song

Boom de la da 4x
I love the mountains
I love the rolling hills
I love the flowers
I love the daffodils
I love the fireside
When all the lights are low

I do not know those last three you listed Jazzy, lol.

My friends and I must have been lazy - we sat on the ground and did clap routines to these rhymes. No jump rope for us 😂

HAHAAA Well i always wanted to do Double Dutch but never learnt that. We just did a regular jump rope and tried to smack each other on the bum as they went out.

Jazzy wrote: "See See my playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more - more more..."

We did this one, but with slightly different words--mostly the same, but we said "Oh, little play mate" and "slide down my rain barrel"

Jazzy wrote: "Kumbalata, kumbalata
Kumbalata vista
Kumbalata, kumbalata
Kumbalata vista
No, no, no, no, no la vista
No, no, no, no, no la vista
Eeny Meenie Eximeeny
Ooh wah na wanna meenie
Eeny Meenie Eximeeny ..."

We did this as call and response at summer camp, never as a clapping game :)