The Hoop-De-Doo Revue at Walt Disney World has a segment where three of the cast will go out in the audience and ask guests where they’re from, and the other three will make rhymes about it. A family from Massachusetts once got, “Oh, you’re here and we’re elated, / But your footballs are deflated.”
Got a nice thing going with a nurse who goes fishing in Alaska every summer just for the grin on her father’s face. I trade her beef from our biennial half steer for salmon and halibut.
Leeks, meanwhile, are the symbol of Wales. Our tour guide at Edinburgh castle told us that when a Scotsman answers a nature call he’s said to be “picking thistles,” while a Welshman doing so “takes a leek.”
Telling on my own people, but per legend the thistle became the symbol of Scotland because some Vikings once took their boots off to wade the moat of a Scottish castle in a night attack and found it full of thistles instead of water.
The Hoop-De-Doo Revue at Walt Disney World has a segment where three of the cast will go out in the audience and ask guests where they’re from, and the other three will make rhymes about it. A family from Massachusetts once got, “Oh, you’re here and we’re elated, / But your footballs are deflated.”