And they asked me how I did it, and I gave 'em the Scripture text

[venta]

Some time ago, I posted a poetry quiz on here. Then forgot to post the answers. The winner, with an impressive 9 1/2 out of 10 was bopeepsheep. She could really have had 10, but I was quite harsh with her answer about the Big Steamers. Just to stop her getting too cocky ;)

shui_long came in as runner up, and we have an honourable mention for dr_doug whose answers made me

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[drdoug]

Glad to have provided some diversion - I enjoyed answering.

The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God is the centre of an ancient two-person party piece, where one person recites the poem with their arms behind their back, and the other slips their arms through under the front person's armpits and makes ludicrous accompanying gestures. Splayed hands with thumbs to forehead every time "Mad Carew" is mentioned, shoveling motions for "tends the grave", and (in?)appropriate groinal gestures for all the mentions of "ball". And so on. It doubtless had an actual origin in the mists of time but it was long lost by the time I came upon it.

[drdoug]

Oh, and "dirty British coasters" for the drinks mats is genius that I intend to rip off henceforward.

[exspelunca]

Feel free to borrow our family phrase! The green eye of the little yellow god was a regular church/concert party piece where one person tried to recite it "straight" only to be interrupted all the time by a second person, often a man in boater and striped blazer,with very, very corny jokes.