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.

[shaneystar2]

Don't panic Kit Robinia and I will do a bit of Miss Marpling ...he can't be the body on the beach ...surely ....mind you there has been an awful lot of wood washed up in Sprout country !

[VINNY100_2]

yo ey,ere you are..
Thanks robinia ****** they found me hehe..!
nice pad you got ere kip.
ooops,time fer another lemonade...ermm...excuse me...
oooh (:O)

[VINNY100_2]

bloomin eck...thought Id been banned then,it says 18 at the top,then it says 20...phew. (:O)..

[DaSwede]

Good to know you're here Vinny but I've been chasing after you all day and involving the others as well so we may not be as bright eyed and bushy tailed as we usually are - er...

[VINNY100_2]

I s there room fer one on top...hehe..!(:O)

[DaSwede]

I'm watching a Monkees documentary, did y'all know they outsold The Beatles and Elvis combined in the US!!

[DaSwede]

Ha ha they just said John Lennon likened the Monkees to the Marx Brothers!

[VINNY100_2]

Sorry kip,its me own fault.I should have checked me e.mails but I just presumed that thread you posted was are new home,then i couldnt post and thought the site was bu66ered fer the weekend.I sent robinia and netti a message (a reply)via beta,but you dont know if its been sent or not.....it just kinda stays there?
this should wake them up... (*_*)

[VINNY100_2]

Did yer know ,that Ena sharples of coronation street was davy jones grandmother.(he was born in manchester).(:O)

[Dolly1308]

Thanks for the email Robinia ,I'll just pop in even though I don't know where I am ! Nice to see you all again ,have you got the kettle on Kip ? It's a bit early for me so I'll go back to bed with a nice cup of tea,see you all later !

[VINNY100_2]

Hi Dolly.
Hope you have a good year medear.
A group from your home town....yo (((*_*)))
think kips on the .koppenburg . (:O).

[DaSwede]

Nooo Vinny I'm on Bill Murray (Life Aquatic.) Kettle, Dolly... nope, more like really bad American coffee - you're in the land of the free and the home of the brave - got your green card? Davy Jones/Ena Sharples - there's an almost spooky resemblance, I've googled! Would have never recognized Mike Nesmith. the monkees for john

[Robinia]

bonsoir monkeez...I'm going to like it here, it's brought me luck already...I won on lotto - yep again - �79 this time. It'll be the French influence, it can't have been my best subject at school for no reason...I really must do a refresher course. Handbags here I come...better get some noo bloomers as well, my 'lastic's gawn a bit loose....whoops-a-daisy
mind you, if I save it until primark opens I can buy the whole shop.

Hey, hey we're.............who?

[VINNY100_2]

Wink Wink nod nod..
I know where your coming from kip...pssst is bill murray (life aqautic)...slang fer weed
The Nineteen Sixties: A Long, Strange Trip.yoI can tell yer.The first time i had a spliff was when i went home from work(i was 16)and found out me family had got evicted from our council house and didnt leave me a message..The irish family down the road knew me since i was a kid and took me in .Me mates brother use to play a guitar in his room and play magic music..he was a Beatnic.We sat in there one night with a few bottles of cyder and he gave me a bit of mr blow. Mainly through the mid SiXtIeS I was just a bum,hitchiking across England..doing odd jobs..Then Holland..........magic time spain germany France suisse . Took LSD fer 2 years, but it freaked me out in the end.(:O)
catch yer in a bit....yo7

[VINNY100_2]

Robinia...your off your trolly..hehe... but i love it (:O)

[DaSwede]

Another win...?! It's the third time I can recall and I'm not even counting! Well Robinia this calls for a toaster - sorry Miss DiPesto didn't serve you the breakfast you asked for this morning. That girl is hopeless, all she does is answer the phone speaking in rhyme (remember?) You wouldn't believe how clean I am Vinny. I wanted to do drugs but couldn't for the life of me get into bad company when I was young - I was this girl, not exactly with the in-crowd - and now I don't want to anymore. I likes a little glass of red red wine though or Campari or sherry or Gammeldansk but it knocks me out very quickly (well that mix would...) Why does beta cram everything together no matter how spaciously you write it, it's annoying. Anyway - nitie nite!

[Robinia]

ooh, all that toast! shaney will be here any moment with the chs.
Actually it's win no 2 (�10 last week) so does that mean I've another one to come? have you seen the future MadameKit?...is it Chateau-shaped? I hope so, plenty of the past has been s**t-shaped :o)
strangely enough I've had a Cezanne as my desktop since twelfth night...I'd had a dream about sailing with Elton John...(yeh, I know) to an island & the colours were so bright it was like a painting...love it

oh, look at the time...I'll turn into a pumpkin...night x

[VINNY100_2]

theresnothingwrongwithbeta..(:O)
nighty nite.

yea kip thats what i use to tell me mother..(:O)

[Robinia]

mange tout...

I just had a go on beta & got the error message doo-dah when I posted...luckily I didn't submit again or you'd now be sending me food parcels to the dungeon 'cos it had actually
gone.

[Robinia]

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