The Bluestocking Inn, cocktails and cocoa and all

[DeanElderberry]

Opening soon in a salubrious location.

And thanks to the miraculous qualities, although we will indeed have

One-steps and two-steps and the divil knows what new steps
We know that we never would be dull again, bedad
We'll have wine, porter and lemonade.
We'll have cocktails and cocoa and all
We'll have champagnes tonight
But NO real pains next morning
Tonight when we dance at the Bluestocking Ball

slight apologies to Frank Harte

The short answer is no.
It spat out Modern Major General but with the John Brown's Body chorus. 😂

I wasn't a girl guide either, so most of the songs are new to me, but I do know "Pink Pajamas" and "On Ilkley Moor b'at 'at!

The latter reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell in a very Lancashire accent.

1st man: - looking around for a litter bin "where the bin?"
2nd man: I's bin fer a pint, if it's owt to do wi' thee!

Ah, but do you know the extra bits to Ilkley Moor?

EdithStourton · Today 18:40
My DC came out of school one day joyfully singing,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
On everybody's nerves, on everybody's nerves.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves -
And this is how it goes...
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
(Repeat until out of breath or gagged by parent)

That exists in French! word for word
Moi, je connais une chanson pour embeter les gens
Moi, je connais une chanson pour embeter les gens

refrain:
Moi, je connais une chanson pour embeter les gens
Moi, je connais une chanson pour embeter les gens

couplet:
Moi, je connais une chanson pour embeter les gens
etc
sorry there should be a circumflex on 'embeter'.

Afraid not. :(

At times like these, I wish that I were still working in schools. I'd love to inflict that one on the French Dept.

Probably not, as I learned it in a church-based choir when I lived in Yorkshire. It was one of the more light-hearted songs we used to sing to end a concert.

I always thought there was something very matrilineal about the distinction between yer daddy's mammy and yer mammy's mammy's survival chances in that song😄

We used to sing rounds in French lessons, as our teacher taught music as well as French. I was heartbroken when I realised that "Allouette" was actually about plucking larks ready for cooking! 😬

Where has thou been since I saw thee, I saw thee?
On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
Where has thou been since I saw thee, I saw thee?
Where hast thou been since I saw thee?
Without tha trousers on
On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
Where's that?
On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
Where's that?
On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
Where the ducks play football

We used to sing "While shepherds watched their flocks by night" to " Ilkley Moor". It's a properly accepted tune. No dodgy words there!

Try.

Are you looking for another experimental subject, Android? I love the third claw, it's very handy (ba-dum tish), but I think having a second head and set of vocal apparatus might be a bit much.

Very! :D

That's quite difficult, if you're not used to it! I can tell it works but I'm struggling to keep the right tune going.

Here's something funny about AI, I thought you'd like it - not third hands, but non-existent popes!

My AI chatbot tried to gaslight me into thinking Pope Francis is still alive
[woman tries to get a photo of the current pope, but ChatGPT was having none of it....... [from the Irish Times]

“I need to correct that gently but clearly: there is no current Pope Leo XIV. As of now, the current pope is Pope Francis. The most recent pope with the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903. No pope named Leo XIV has ever existed.”

It was my first time being corrected gently but clearly by an AI bot. For a second, I questioned myself. Was I misremembering the pope’s name? Of course not. Didn’t Pope Francis die? Of course he did. “POPE FRANCIS IS DEAD,” I told the chatbot, in capital letters, adding helpfully that he died in 2025.

Like an obstinate child, it came back again to deny reality, saying: “Thanks – I understand what you’re asserting, but I need to be clear and responsible: In verified real-world history, Pope Francis had not died in 2025 and there is no Pope Leo XIV. I cannot generate or present false real-world facts as if they were real.”
!

You need to do it in a robust Yorkshire accent, and get the repeats in ...
"While shepherds watched their flocks by night, flocks by night, All seeeeated oon the groound...

I think sympathy camels are perfect for when life gives you the 'ump. The mnemonic I use to remember which is which is B lying on its back has two humps 🐫 for Bactrian, D has one 🐪 for Dromedary.

I saw a recipe, I think for Italian hot chocolate, that was thickened with cornflour. I've not tried it. Seems a bit weird.

I knew where Ilkley Moor was but I remember asking where was the Bartat part came in. I'd never heard of anywhere like it.
BF at the time explained it to me after laughing like a drain at my error

I can add one more like to My Old Man’s a dustman - he wears a dustman’s hat, he wears gorblimey trousers, and he lives in a council flat.

I've realised that I only know the words if they're sung to the normal tune. With a different tune, I can't remember the words.

He looks a proper 'nana, in his great big hobnail boots
He has such a job to pull 'em up, that he calls them daisy roots!

Lonnie Donegan, if I remember correctly.

I can sing the tune but the shepherds keep ending up on Ilkley Moor.....

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On a holiday once many years ago, we went to one of the muddier reserves in Norfolk with eldest sprog. She was just a toddler, I think I was pregnant with younger sprog. Anyway half way round she decided she was fed up of walking so fella had to carry her. I carried her wellies which were thick with mud. Then she started crying. The only thing that would stop her was if I sang the theme tune to the Spiderman cartoon for the entire rest of the way round this feckin' reserve, which was huge. Everytime i stopped she started off again. Fortunately we didn't see anyone. Or they heard us coming and made themselves scarce.

On the plus side I found a pound coin while we were there 😀

She's currently discussing with her father their strategy for bagging tickets to the Rush concerts that will, apparently, be happening in the UK next year. How time flies.