It's been a good night .... dry with crucially timed wee-breaks. Kaylia has a cold .... coughing with a stuffed head and a "ruddy doase".
She is watching Baby Einstein on YouTube .... at least she has slept till now .... I'm not complaining! Headphones are a great invention.
7:50am ..... and we can't even sleep in because the electricity people have come to check the switchboard ... and Teddy is MIGHTLTILY offended!
10:40
RED LETTER DAY!!
In 1978 while teaching at a remote spot in the Kimberleys .... the school received Sesame Street videos .... and one of the sessions was about "Morty Moot Mope". Very Funny. Ever since I have searched for a copy of that video .... to no avail. It seems to have been lost.....
... and this morning I found a link to the video and the words! Here are the words. ....
Once in a kingdom of Boppity Bope,
there lived an old king named Morty Moot Mope.
Morty Moot Mope was the old king's name,
and he loved to hear words that sounded same.
But, the saddest thing about his rhyming game,
was that he couldn't find a word that would rhyme with his name.
He searched through the country and he searched through the town,
until he finally found Same Sound Brown
"Oh boy, oh joy! I'll bet my crown,
that fellow there is Same Sound Brown.
Now Same Sound Brown was a rhyming man...
"I can rhyme words faster than I bet you can."
You see if you said moose...
"I would say goose."
If you said moose juice...
"I would say loose goose."
If you said loosey juice moose...
"I would say loosey goose loose."
Now Morty Moot Moot Mope began to feel pretty good,
and he sent for Brown just as quick as he could.
And before the king could turn around,
there in the court was Same Sound Brown.
He bent one knee and bowed to the king,
and said, "Morty Moot Mope, I can rhyme anything.
"Well," said the king, "I'm glad you came,
now make me a rhyme to rhyme with my name."
"I'm sorry king, but there's very little hope,
I've rhymed some hard ones in my time, but Morty Moot Mope...is...hard to rhyme..."
"Well, if you can't find a rhyme, here's what I'll do,
I'll put you in a cage in the royal zoo!"
"You'll have to catch me first," said Same Sound Brown,
and before you're off your throne, I'll be half way out of town.
"And I'll tell you something else, Morty Moot Mope,
you couldn't catch me with a 40 foot rope."
"Forty foot rope?" cried Morty Moot Mope,
"Forty foot rope rhymes with Morty Moot Mope!"
"Of course it does, I knew it all the time;
there are very few words that I cannot rhyme."
"See here, young man, I'll make you a knight!"
"Oh no thank you, sire, that's allright."
"Since you were going to cage me when you thought I couldn't rhyme;
I'm going back and do my rhyming in my own good time."
The moral of this story is: Never threaten to put someone in the royal zoo,
because the person who winds up in the cage just might be you.
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