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We live in a country with strange sayings

Robertinfremont

Robertinfremont

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I hope to learn about many sayings.

So the first of them is about weasels.

You are a weasel is one.

But my starting saying

POP GOES THE WEASEL

Why around the Mulberry Bush. I have eaten the fruit and found that they came from Trees and not bushes.

YEt when the Weasel Runs about the berry tree, something causes them to pop.

Who has seen a Weasel pop? So explain this to the forum if you saw one or more popping?

Pop Goes the Weasel
Anthony Newley
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Ha ha, yeah
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Every night, when I go out
The weasel's on the table
Take a stick and knock it off
Pop goes the weasel
Up and down the city road
In and out of the eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
Mix it up and make it nice
Pop goes the weasel
You know, pop goes the weasel
For years, I've wondered
What that meant
And nobody seemed to know
So, I looked it up
And the official explanation
Goes something like this
Pop goes the weasel refers to
The habit of London hatters long ago
Popping or pawning…

Source: LyricFind

pop goes the weasel lyrics - Google Search
 
 
I have never seen a weasel period even though they are listed as common for my area. I think maybe they are nocturnal or something.
 
Drawdown said:
I have never seen a weasel period even though they are listed as common for my area. I think maybe they are nocturnal or something.
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Were I to pop one, the temptation would be to eat the weasel.
 
Robertinfremont said:
I hope to learn about many sayings.

So the first of them is about weasels.

You are a weasel is one.

But my starting saying

POP GOES THE WEASEL

Why around the Mulberry Bush. I have eaten the fruit and found that they came from Trees and not bushes.

YEt when the Weasel Runs about the berry tree, something causes them to pop.

Who has seen a Weasel pop? So explain this to the forum if you saw one or more popping?

Pop Goes the Weasel
Anthony Newley
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Ha ha, yeah
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Every night, when I go out
The weasel's on the table
Take a stick and knock it off
Pop goes the weasel
Up and down the city road
In and out of the eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
Mix it up and make it nice
Pop goes the weasel
You know, pop goes the weasel
For years, I've wondered
What that meant
And nobody seemed to know
So, I looked it up
And the official explanation
Goes something like this
Pop goes the weasel refers to
The habit of London hatters long ago
Popping or pawning…

Source: LyricFind

pop goes the weasel lyrics - Google Search
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You are a weasel means you are dishonest and sneaky
Kinda like the saying sly as a fox, some use it means smooth and others to mean you are a smooth theft, since foxes kill chickens and steal eggs.
Childrens rhymes don't make a lot sense but its not just in English my families Spanish sayings and childrens rhyme always have puzzled me too.
Another version of the song at least the one I grew up on was:
All around the mulberry bush
the monkey chased the weasel
the monkey thought it was all in fun
pop goes the weasel
a penny for a spool of thread
a penny for a needle
that's the money goes
pop goes the weasel

Here the weasel means a coat like a suit jacket and the pop means to sell. So pop goes the weasel means, So I sold my coat. Money is tight and they made their own clothes and they had to sell their nice jacket to buy sowing equipment or in the version you wrote they needed to buy rice and honey.
 
jdog21 said:
You are a weasel means you are dishonest and sneaky
Kinda like the saying sly as a fox, some use it means smooth and others to mean you are a smooth theft, since foxes kill chickens and steal eggs.
Childrens rhymes don't make a lot sense but its not just in English my families Spanish sayings and childrens rhyme always have puzzled me too.
Another version of the song at least the one I grew up on was:
All around the mulberry bush
the monkey chased the weasel
the monkey thought it was all in fun
pop goes the weasel
a penny for a spool of thread
a penny for a needle
that's the money goes
pop goes the weasel

Here the weasel means a coat like a suit jacket and the pop means to sell. So pop goes the weasel means, So I sold my coat. Money is tight and they made their own clothes and they had to sell their nice jacket to buy sowing equipment or in the version you wrote they needed to buy rice and honey.
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I predict this thread will remain on the level and posters will not taunt nor fall to the level of the taunt or insult.

Well done so far.
 
Drawdown said:
Maybe you can get the woodchuck to chuck some wood on the weasel's noggin fer ya
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If the woodchuck can truly chuck wood. LOL
That is truly a wild name for some animal.
 
Robertinfremont said:
If the woodchuck can truly chuck wood. LOL
That is truly a wild name for some animal.
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We call them groundhogs. It wasn't until fairly recently that I found out that woodchucks were the same thing as groundhogs.
 
Redress said:
No, this is music for drug dealers:

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My dad always said in his day there was one song that came on the radio which always told you who used drugs and who didn't just by people's reactions:

 
Robertinfremont said:
I hope to learn about many sayings.

So the first of them is about weasels.

You are a weasel is one.

But my starting saying

POP GOES THE WEASEL

Why around the Mulberry Bush. I have eaten the fruit and found that they came from Trees and not bushes.

YEt when the Weasel Runs about the berry tree, something causes them to pop.

Who has seen a Weasel pop? So explain this to the forum if you saw one or more popping?

Pop Goes the Weasel
Anthony Newley
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Ha ha, yeah
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Every night, when I go out
The weasel's on the table
Take a stick and knock it off
Pop goes the weasel
Up and down the city road
In and out of the eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
Mix it up and make it nice
Pop goes the weasel
You know, pop goes the weasel
For years, I've wondered
What that meant
And nobody seemed to know
So, I looked it up
And the official explanation
Goes something like this
Pop goes the weasel refers to
The habit of London hatters long ago
Popping or pawning…

Source: LyricFind

pop goes the weasel lyrics - Google Search
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The origin of that song is spinning yarn, The winder that you put yarn on was called a weasel. There also was a clicking mechanism that would click after a certain number of turns of the wheel.. it would pop. So, the 'pop goes the weasel' was actually a counting mechanism so they knew how much yarn was spun.
 
Drawdown said:
I have never seen a weasel period even though they are listed as common for my area. I think maybe they are nocturnal or something.
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I have seen mink and fishers in my area (they are species of weasels. Of course, the river otter is a type of weasel also.
 
RAMOSS said:
The origin of that song is spinning yarn, The winder that you put yarn on was called a weasel. There also was a clicking mechanism that would click after a certain number of turns of the wheel.. it would pop. So, the 'pop goes the weasel' was actually a counting mechanism so they knew how much yarn was spun.
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Fantastic what one can learn if one wants to. Thank you very much.
 
Robertinfremont said:
Fantastic what one can learn if one wants to. Thank you very much.
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A lot of folk songs and stories were told by women who were in 'spinning circles' to pass the time while they worked. The stories told were known as 'spinning a yarn'.
 
Drawdown said:
My dad always said in his day there was one song that came on the radio which always told you who used drugs and who didn't just by people's reactions:

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I fell in love with Pink Floyd probably in 1978. The other group does sound like a drug pusher group.
 
RAMOSS said:
A lot of folk songs and stories were told by women who were in 'spinning circles' to pass the time while they worked. The stories told were known as 'spinning a yarn'.
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If you come to the SF Bay Area, in Fremont is a well known Restaurant called Spin a Yarn. Ramsey the famous TV chef worked to straighten it out.

 
And this is the most important drug song ever:

 
I remember visiting a friend in rural Laos. I knocked on the door, and his mother answered, and she told me that my friend was busy. I enquired as to what he was busy with, and she said. "Oh, I think he's spanking his monkey". I was taken aback, until i realized he was just disciplining his troublesome pet macaque! Lol

Then i recall the argument between a British father and son. His father angrily asked, "are you still sucking on those fags"!!?? It struck me, because i didnt even know he was gay! But then i saw the cigarrette in his hand, and realized there'd been a slang term translation error on MY part...

Later, my friend and i stopped in at a diner, and the waitress asked "will you have a spot of tea"? I told her I'd prefer a cup...
 
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Drawdown said:
We call them groundhogs. It wasn't until fairly recently that I found out that woodchucks were the same thing as groundhogs.
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I prefer to call them whistle pigs.
 
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