My culture haunts me yet
Her: “Honey, what’s a ‘spout’?”
Him: “A ‘spout’ is a tube that liquid comes out of. Like a teapot has a spout. In the song I was singing to Adam a ‘waterspout’ is the pipe that brings rain down from the roof. It goes,
‘The eensy weensy spider went up the waterspout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out…’”
Her: “Dead.”
Him: “NO! That’s not the end: ‘Out came the sun… [finishes]‘”
Her: “Honey, I’m sorry, but any damn spider that’s stupid enough to be in a waterspout when the rain comes would be completely dead.”
hey john you old blogger! :)
it’s true man, spider is DEAD no matter how the song ends!
Comment by Dino — Tuesday 24 May 05 @ 15.26 MDT+2.00
But did the ‘itsy bitsy’ spider survive? Do ‘eensy weensy’ spiders lack the water survival skills necessary to survive water spout immersion?
Which spider’s evolutionary path makes it able to survive climate zones with large amounts of precipitation?
Comment by Sarcastro — Wednesday 25 May 05 @ 16.02 MDT+2.00
Hmm, the above comments are interesting, but I was more caught up on the implication that Polish children’s songs are realistic and meaningful in a way that ours are not. Are they? I would find that more odd than the idea that the spider might have survived the rain-flooded waterspout. Who would sing realistic songs to children? Shouldn’t we spare them that?
My dad used to sing Bob Dylan songs to me. Now I sing Beatles songs to my son. I don’t know what Magda would make of “Come Together”, but it surely wouldn’t be good.
Comment by jdog — Thursday 26 May 05 @ 06.29 MDT+2.00
so funny! Magda is great!
Comment by Aubrey — Monday 4 February 08 @ 07.26 MST+2.00