Get your priorities right (before rolling that r)!
By Old Grumpy Guy on August 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM in Humor
Why did the ragged rascal run around the rugged rock? There are searching questions to be asked!
The video is an oblique attack on political correctness and those dreary Sea Penn fans. (I have finally got around to watching Sean Penn’s performance in “Milk”. I think it’s a caricature that gives gay people a bad name. I will have more to say on that in a forthcoming video).
One viewer on my Youtube channel wrote that the poltically correct wording for “around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran” is “”Around the irregularly-surfaced mineral chunk the pristine apparel-challenged mischievous person moved swiftly”.”
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Rock Solid Grumpy…!!
Oh…and I know you have composed and Produced some great Musicals Grumpy..
But…I didn’t know you were into..
RRRRRROCK and RRRRRROOOLLLL…!!
Well, I am grateful that not one of my real friends nor anyone in my family has ever asked me to roll my R’s, or even my arse!
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Well done Grrrrrumpy.. you waskel.
good to see you posting Grump.we missed you
Grumpy and the rrest of you are all making me raugh, while I trry to rrroll my rrrrrrrr’s
The “ragged rascal” didn’t run round “rugged cliffs”.
The rhyme is :
Round and round the radical road the radical rascal ran.
The “radical road” is right below Salisbury Crags on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.
Hi Grumpy guy!
And while you’re rolling your ‘r’s, go for it all the way:
courtesy of:
http://waf.eps.hw.ac.uk/Word%20of%20the%20Week%20pages/SWOW%20archive%20page%203.htm
I had a French teacher that constantly scolded me for forgetting to “roll my rrr’s”.
Excellent Grumpy. Well done.
Vewy, vewy intewesting. But I wonder why English snoots want rolled rs when they distain the Latin
tongues or dismiss a Scotish brogue. I personally
love a Scot or Irish accent. I also love Shakespeare.
Where do you stand on the controversy surrounding the
true idenity of the Bard’s work? Some say the plays
and poems were written by an English nobleman–think
some Earl. He was homosexual and in his day that was
a hanging offense. Hence, he collaborated with
the stage producer, William Shakespeare, to present
the plays. The sonnets do hint of gay leanings.
I’m not judging, just curious. Rolling in wealth from centuries of plundering, the English upper class had far too much time on their hands, hamstringing social development. It took a turn toward the silly. Queen Victoria elevated trivia to an art form–a twisted inversion of common sense.
OOPS: this nagged me for quite a while. Disdain,
not distain–lol. And it reminded me of little
Herve: “Boss, distain, distain.” (I’m on a roll
Grumpy that must be some GOOD weed ur smokin!
Rrrrrrrrrrrright?
j/k
good to see ur shining face again
PUMA W00T!!
I always wanted to be able to roll my r’s and envy vocalists who can roll and roll ’til the cows come home. How do they do it? My tongue just won’t cooperate, especially when an r is at the end of a word.
In the film Milk, I felt Sean Penn (loved him in Sweet and Lowdown) failed to capture the soft elegance of the real Harvey Milk’s voice.
I’ve been reading about the actor Claude Rains this past week. He was a favorite, and reknown for the quality of his voice. It surprised me to learn he started out as a stuttering cockney — maybe there’s hope for me yet.