I see England, I see France

[DaSwede]

Last week I saw an old episode of Moonlighting. the name of the episode was I see England, I see France, I see Maddie's netherworld. It immediately struck me as probably being a paraphrase, so I searched for that phrase barring the netherworld-part, and got tons of hits. I gather it's a 'teasing rhyme' (if that be the term) and that the last part of it would normally be I see (name)'s underpants. But even that sounds like a paraphrase to me, as if the origin was oh I don't know - a Churchill speech or something... "I see England, I see France, united in ..." etcetera. (Just fantasizing.)

Does anyone know anything about the origin - or if the rhyme is the origin.

Thanks in advance and for now, more personal thanks sometime next week.

[DaSwede]

Robinia will you discipline jno this time.

[jno]

ooh, sorry about the duplication...

[shaneystar2]

I don't have to pay for my prescriptions any more !
This leads me to believe that Jno is a younger Biddy than moi !
However I didn't have to pay for a couple of years anyway because of this hypoparathyroidism thingy . They gave me an exemption card .Are any of your ongoing conditions exempt Jno ?..might be worth a look .I never knew about it until someone on here told me about it and I had been shelling out a fortune
Been a lovely day here ....and my feathered friends seem to have returned .

[netibiza]

Over here we pay approx 1� per item on prescription and am not an oap until 65 yrs (long way off). We have a plastic health card (like a credit card) and it automatically tells the chemists computer what med we need, so don't have to go to doc's all the time, very handy indeed.

[VINNY100_2]

er..thats nothing..
I take my plastic card in the offey,and he knows what i want every time to..
erm...robinia..can you stop buying euro lotto tickets on line fer 5 minutes so i can buy some..thankyou the bloomin sites gone down...(:O)

[jno]

I have no wish to go to the doc all the time (though mostly I don't have to actually see him) but I suspect he gets paid every time he signs a prescription, if not every time he stares at the ceiling.

[jno]

PS I don't have any of the ostomies that apply, shaney. Looks like Ethel could apply for mg, but I imagine she's already in the free category.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion518764.html

[shaneystar2]

I hadn't seen that Jno ..I have added a wish.
I think Ethel is a retired person but as you say mg would be exempt anyway .
Next time I go to that doctor of mine I am going to ask for a new free body, and some free blood to replace the pints he has had out of me since I joined his practice.
He's a nice doctor but he's blood test crazy !

[Robinia]

yes, well when I get my cheque...hard lines Vin, I'll treat you to a sprout dinner....I'm going to have a body like one of these backing girls....

YO

I'd like the lovely,lovely Robert back too, but no money on earth's gonna do that :o(

[netibiza]

Ah well, guess who didn't win the lottery again!!!

[Robinia]

me neither neti, but I didn't have a winning feeling in me water anyway...I've just seen you shuffling about out there < and you did send a message to Ethel yesterday but on this one...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion517740.html
is that what you meant?

<<<accidentally bangs on gong>>> GERRUP!!

well, it's not windy enough to slam the door..hehe..it's a beautiful day...in fact I might sing for you....?

<ouch!>...who threw that?

[netibiza]

OMG - I am getting senile, aren't I? Do you trawl through every post on this site? Lovely sunny day here.

[Robinia]

cheeky booger...no I don't trawl through every post, haha. I went to post on it via jno's directions & you & your bazooms were already in there, so not much room left ....go back to your tatting.

[DaSwede]

i can hear music...


...and simon can oviously hear robinia "singing" again

[netibiza]

Oh I adore the Beach Boys, in fact Brian Wilson has taken over from that Manilow person in my closet - and he is interested in woman and he is the right age!!

[DaSwede]

Yes and he isn't even dead! (Like most of the music makers I post here otherwise are.) I'm so happy for us Neti, this is progress!

(But it's not him singing, on this one, it's Carl.)

[netibiza]

Yes I know Kit, Carl was lovely, the quiet one, and he kept the band going in my opinion, died of cancer, bless him.

[VINNY100_2]

Evening Pop-Pickers.
What a beaut day down the Beach.
yoand the sun was warm to.....is this really the second week in feb..!!and then the bloomin crockles turned up all the way from the midlands ere's proofthink they was robinia's relatives,one off them had a surf board made outta wool..hehe..!(:O)
yo (*_*)

[DaSwede]

That beach... My sister and brother-in-law live 3-4 minutes away from the beach in the south of Sweden but theirs is just a thin strip, long-stretching but "thin." And no surfers, just swans. Actually just a swan widower nowadays, poor guy.

moo (What. What with Robinia and Vinny both saying "yo" I've been feeling the need to sport my own label.)

[DaSwede]

(Just occurred to me, Bj�rk once wore a swan dress to the Oscars - was that why I choose one of her songs after talking about swans...?! Funny ole brain!)