Yeuk

[HLaB]

What is it with fly's this year? I've swallowed at least 3 in the last week, yeuk . I can't remember swallowing any before.

 

[Noodley]

Did you previously cycle with your mouth shut? There's always another way to look at these things

 

[tdr1nka]

It's been a flying ant day here in London, doesn't usually happen till late August.

 

[Speicher]

You could try swallowing a spider, who would eat the flies.


Does anyone else remember the rest of that poem?
I know a (wo)man who swallowed a fly.......?

 

[Batzman]

It's been a flying ant day here in London, doesn't usually happen till late August.

Aha! so that's what those things are... fortunately I only ate one and was able to spit it out again pretty quickly - had a few bounce off me on the way home though. Got hit by a bumblebee once which just about knocked me unconscious

 

[longers]

You could try swallowing a spider, who would eat the flies.


Does anyone else remember the rest of that poem?
I know a (wo)man who swallowed a fly.......?

I think she'll die

 

[Speicher]

No, it was something like

I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
then a spider
then a frog and a cat
then a dog etc etc

Then she died.

 

[Abitrary]

Yep. Something up this year with flying insects.

I've had to take my helmet off because they just get trapped up there, and then even the ones that hit you on the forehead give you quite a twack.

 

[tdr1nka]

That's enough 'wiggling, jiggling and tickling' for me!

 

[Speicher]

fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, etc etc.

She's dead, of course.

That's where I went wrong - frog instead of bird - Thank you Mr Paul

 

[longers]

There was an Old Lady song

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that to swallow a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog;
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow;
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!

Ta da!

 

[tdr1nka]

What happened to the horse then?

I think she made the mistake of eating the dog IMO.
Spider eats fly, check, bird eats spider, that works for me, cat eats bird, yup thats all above board, but come the dog the animals then don't actually consume each other which is what I think did the old woman in, in the end.

Unless as a town boy I am unaware of cows eating dogs and horses eating cows I find this story holds little water.

 

[Noodley]

Why would a cow want to catch a dog?

 

[tdr1nka]

Maybe the dog had dropped it's wallet and the cow was kindly trying to
return it?

 

[Noodley]

Maybe the dog had dropped it's wallet and the cow was kindly trying to
return it?

Cow's would probably be more interested in a bag of crisps TBH. Maybe there was an old rolled up and folded crisp packet in the wallet? With a few crumbs still left in...worcestershire sauce flavour probably.