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"Can we have the story about Milly Molly Mandy Gets Squashed By An Elephant?"

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StFrancesofZooville · 01/11/2006 21:27

funnily enough I couldn't find it in the book

Do any of you know it?

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FrannyonFire · 03/11/2006 12:39

Yes Pippi wrestles with the strong man and beats him IIRC

I love those stories but dp loathes them for some reason.

Hmm.

KatherinewheelMCMLXXII · 03/11/2006 12:34

That would be Pippi Longstocking, ClerkKent.

clerkKent · 03/11/2006 12:33

I am not sure if we have ever read any MMM stories, but last summer returning from a holiday in Perigord dw out on a cassette as we were passing through Paris. It featured a rich girl who took all her friends to the circus, got the best seats, joined in all the acts, upset the circus manager etc. Does anyone recognize that?
DD listened for a while, but then wanted American Pie back on (for the 2 millionth time).

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 21:34
Grin
FrannyonFire · 02/11/2006 21:21

Am just concocting story for tomorrow about how MMM developed super strength and brushed the elephant off as if it were a speck of dust on her best serge dress

and oh dear what a shame

the elephant accidentally landed on DADDY

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 21:14

Oh they just can NOT resist going too far, can they.

at thought of event slipping into F&Z household anecdote archive.

FrannyonFire · 02/11/2006 20:58

Oh, and dp made up a story tonight, about MMM getting crushed by an elephant

I came up to a slightly shaky looking ds and said "Well I am sure MMM was alright afterwards"

"No she wasn't! She was squashed quite flat wasn't she Daddy? She can't get up again because the elephant is standing on her!"

FrannyonFire · 02/11/2006 20:55

I was thinking of Serge Gainsborough

much better

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 19:47

Quite Mary Poppins too - serge and twill.

harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH · 02/11/2006 19:24

oh so it's just a sort of twill
how crestfalling

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:22

I meant

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:22

Sounds more Emily Dickinson to me

Nope, it's crap [grin[

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 19:21

Serge makes me think of Tintin.

harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH · 02/11/2006 19:20

that rhyme has a distinctly Alison Uttley feel to it, doesn't it
there was a verger
on the verge
wearing serge
singing a dirge
his name was Herge
(he wrote Tin Tin)
he was not a man to splurge
or merge

alexsmumgoeswhizzbangwhoosh · 02/11/2006 19:20

serge

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 19:20

I love to read MNLS stories out loud. Will have to mull over which is my favourite whilst getting now chilly children (being watched by dd1 whilst i "make a cup of tea" on MN) out of the bath.

Bad mother lets children drown whist nerding on about MMM and MNLS on MN. Enough acronyms there?

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:18

and verger (more tenuously)

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:18

and dirge

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:18

perhaps because it sounds like scourge

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:17

I was thinking it sounded like what nuns wear

It definitely has a hardline Catholic feel to it, serge

GunpowderTreasonAndSNOT · 02/11/2006 19:17

I was thinking it sounded like what nuns wear

It definitely has a hardline Catholic feel to it, serge

FillyjonkTheFireEater · 02/11/2006 19:17

hmmm

well I do like red

but my legs are not what they once were

maybe a nice serge dress over jeans, I find wearing dresses with jeans removes the hard choices from my wardrobe.

EmmyLou · 02/11/2006 19:17

We even adapted the Get Better Box idea of Mrs Coacoa-Jones. We have a basket filled with little things to play with for any "poorly not well girls".

Seems to have been superceeded by Cbeebies these days though.

harpsichordsgoingBANGandWHOOSH · 02/11/2006 19:16

hmm, what is serge come to think of it?
it sounds scratchy, like a hair shirt or similar.

FrannyonFire · 02/11/2006 19:16

Ah alexsmum it was a hook on the back of the kitchen door, not a knob

and I thought you were going to be hongkongphooey?

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