here a sheep, there a sheep
May 24, 2008
Just outside my window, someone is playing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” on a harmonica. Life doesn’t get any better than this.
(Although I do wish the person were instead playing a song that doesn’t instill in children the notion that America is dotted with nice, sweet family farms where animals never get hurt or die. “Giant Corporation Had a Factory Farm that Treated Its Animals Inhumanely” would be a more accurate song. I’m just sayin’.)
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If you don’t credit Dana (by using her full name and preferably by linking back to the appropriate post) for however you copy, distribute, transmit or adapt her words, you are being bad. And naughty. And she will have her servant monkeys hunt you down and cut your hands off so you can never copy, distribute, transmit or adapt anyone’s work again and call it your own.
(Unless, of course, you were to use your butt cheeks to manipulate your keyboard with the copying, distributing, transmitting, adapting and whatnot, but Dana fortunately has only met one person whose butt cheeks are that talented. He could play a major third on a piano using nothing but his ass. She kids you not.).
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WHen you add EE-II-EE-II-OOOO it makes a v-e-r-y long line that way. ALthough the message is admirable, I agree.
Ah sheeeps! NZ is full of sheeeps … altho dairy cows are beginning to outnumber with the dairy industry boom … mooo … Just saying … ignore me, I’m just being flippant and silly ….
Pepek, what exactly is the EE-II-EE-II-OO supposed to represent, anyway? Is it an animal sound or just filler because someone couldn’t think of any lyrics to fill the space?
CB, you can always be flippant and silly here. No worries.
Maybe it’s, like, calling pigs…in which case the lyrics ought to be Old McDonald had a hog….right?
Yeah, I guess hog just didn’t make it through the PR folks ~ children like dogs so much more.
OK, now I have the REAL story. I asked 5 yr old Jacob what does E-I-E-I-O mean. He says it “means your back hurts!” And I’m alright with this, it works for me.
E-I-E-I-O!