[Magdalen] trivia

[Marion Thompson]

Never out of fashion with the cognoscenti! ;-)  Lots of it in my memory 
bank.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 8/25/2016 10:56 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> I also know a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan, which is dreadfully out of
> fashion these days.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I learned that one from my dad. We could probably do a fine duet!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Marion Thompson <
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I had to sing it to myself at this end to get the words right. :-)  Kids
>>> nowadays don't learn stuff like this, which is a pity because such things
>>> learned hands-on, so to speak, at a tender age persist for a lifetime.
>>>
>>> You never know your luck.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/25/2016 10:33 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, back in the good old days when the sun had not yet set on the
>>>>>> British Empire and much of the world map (not the USA, of course) was
>>>> pink.  In Grade One, with the pull-down world map in front of the
>>>> blackboard, I stood next to my desk in the one-room school house and
>>>> sang 'The British Grenadiers'.  "Some talk of Alexander, And some of
>>>> Hercules, Of Hector and Lysander, And such great men as these.  But of
>>>> all the world's great heroes There's none that can compare, with a
>>>> tow-row-row-row-row-row-row-row-row, The Britsh Grenadiers."<<<
>>>>
>>>> One of these days you must give me a call so I can hear you sing that to
>>>> me personally!
>>>>
>>>>