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Oct 9, 2019 10:59:48   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Dannj wrote:
Was that from an old English teacher or an old teacher of English?


Both.

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Oct 9, 2019 11:02:20   #
SonyBug
 
Dannj wrote:
What did he call the other leg?


Sometimes there is a real inventive reply. This is one of them!

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Oct 9, 2019 11:35:17   #
raymondh Loc: Walker, MI
 
There must be someone who can be impeached so we can get ‘em out of the barn.

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Oct 9, 2019 13:12:23   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
bamfordr wrote:
Not to throw a monkey wrench into the the excellent discussion of grammar, but according to several unknown and unpublished texts, it appears the farmer’s name was Byng Oliver MacDonaldnaill (the “naill” being silent in the Anglicised version). Named after the unfortunate Admiral, in 1757 he started using Bing instead of Byng.

He also switched to MacDonald, since everyone thought that was his real name.

In his later years, his legendary skills as a farmer were immortalized in the children’s song “Old MacDonald”, based on the D’Urfey song from 1719.

It is a lesser known fact that, in an effort to earn more in Royalties, the verse about dogs on the MacDonald farm was spun off as a separate song in the 1780’s.

To make the spun-off song much shorter and more suitable to sing at children’s parties, by January 3rd 1829, the verse “Bing Oliver MacDonald was his name-o” was shortened to “Bing O. was his name-o”. By March of 1829 the verse had been corrupted to “Bingo was his name-o”.

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I found early in life that if you can make it sound like you know what you're talking about, people will actually believe what you say.

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Oct 9, 2019 14:40:06   #
Dannj
 
DirtFarmer wrote:
I found early in life that if you can make it sound like you know what you're talking about, people will actually believe what you say.


Carrying a clipboard and a pen helps too.

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Oct 9, 2019 14:41:59   #
Dannj
 
jaymatt wrote:
Both.


Not to belabor this but I guess it could also have been a teacher of Old English.

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Oct 9, 2019 14:42:47   #
Dannj
 
nikonbug wrote:
Sometimes there is a real inventive reply. This is one of them!


Thank you👍

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Oct 9, 2019 18:27:41   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Dannj wrote:
Not to belabor this but I guess it could also have been a teacher of Old English.


Yep!

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Oct 9, 2019 20:23:43   #
gastech1949 Loc: Imperial Beach, CA.
 
The way I heard it as a child was "Old MacDonald had a dog and his name was Bingo--B. I. N. G. O. etc., etc."

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Oct 9, 2019 21:17:20   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Dannj wrote:
What did he call the other leg?


Wesson?

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Oct 9, 2019 21:44:30   #
Dannj
 
SteveR wrote:
Wesson?


😊👍

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Oct 10, 2019 05:20:55   #
arden1939
 
Better -- There was a farmer who had a dog and his name was Doorbell...

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Oct 10, 2019 08:23:34   #
juan_uy Loc: Uruguay
 
DirtFarmer wrote:
I found early in life that if you can make it sound like you know what you're talking about, people will actually believe what you say.


You need the combination of two factors:
- Sound confident
- Not having anyone who actually knows in the room :D

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Oct 10, 2019 15:41:57   #
Leo Perez
 
And all this time I thought bingo was a game.

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Oct 14, 2019 15:57:48   #
Tom G Loc: Atlanta, GA
 
Dannj wrote:
I agree...not very melodious. I’ve always had trouble with my clauses...distinguishing the relatives from the subordinates, etc..


Even Santa Clause?

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