kalanamak Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 "Blood and gore all over the floor, and me without a spoon" Where did this come from? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 From the same place that "Boys are made of greasy, grimy gopher guts; chopped up monkey meat; percolated birdies' feet; French-fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood... oops, I forgot my straw!" came from? Just a guess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I haven't the slightest clue.....but I feel kinda nauseous right now. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwenhwyfar Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 From the same place that "Boys are made of greasy, grimy gopher guts; chopped up monkey meat; percolated birdies' feet; French-fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood... oops, I forgot my straw!" came from? Just a guess! ha! :laugh: we sang it: great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey's meat, little birdies dirty feet..great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts and i forgot my spooooooon!" i like your french fried eyeballs though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicAnn Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Is it the same place that "Blood blood everywhere and not a drop to drink" comes from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 Is it the same place that "Blood blood everywhere and not a drop to drink" comes from? I thought that was "water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink", meaning alcohol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirch Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Is it the same place that "Blood blood everywhere and not a drop to drink" comes from? I think that's actually, "Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink" from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Our bio teacher used to quote this at us all the time in 9th grade. :confused: She was odd, to say the least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicAnn Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) I think the other is a parody of "water water everywhere...." like a vampire version. Now I'll have to look up where 'water water everywhere comes from. I seem to think it is a poem or novel, just hope it is not Melville. Whew. Great Coleridge. Not alcohol. Sea water - undrinkable. Edited October 19, 2010 by OrganicAnn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punchie Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 "Water, water..." is from Rime of the Ancient Mariner. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 Not alcohol. Sea water - undrinkable. Ah, it was my father who used it, and thinking on it, I think he would say it if a character in a movie or book was an tippler deprived of booze. I recall him saying it during The African Queen. Papa was big on such euphemisms, for instance, in 1929, he boarded a freighter in Seattle as a cooks assistant. He got off in San Deigo "because the cook was Greek". Well, I knew that many sailors and restaurant owners were Greek, but his answer perplexed me. I was full grown before I knew he mean ANcient Greek, and was expecting company at night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 "Blood and gore all over the floor, and me without a spoon" Where did this come from? Well, "blood and gore" is old... Google Books has it in a poem contained in a book published in 1633... and I'm sure the phrase predates that. As to variations of "Blood and gore all over the floor, and me without a spoon" -- the earliest Google Books references are 1956 in Harper's Magazine, and another in a 1951 book called Fathers are Parents Too. It is referred to as a children's tune, a chant, and a rhyme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I think that's actually, "Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink" from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I seem to remember it is: Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Closeacademy Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 The blood and gore quote sounds like it would be a germanic thing. You know like from one of the old fairy tales or early epic poetry things. They were quite bloody in them. It sounds like an ogre is speaking the words since they have a tendancy to eat people in a lot of those stories. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Riskedahl Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 It’s quite old, from the original review of Shakespeare’s play Titus Andronicus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 I miss kalanamak. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 3 hours ago, EKS said: I miss kalanamak. Me too. I also wonder how her son is doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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