[Golias]

Googled "Mr. East gave a feast," and got three pages of results, so it's too well-known, but how about this naughty rhyme, current when I was a kid?

Mr. Brown went to town
On a load of lumber;
Stuck a splinter in his butt
And thought he heard it thunder.

Mr. Brown went to town
On a load of hay;
Mr. Martin came a-fartin'
And blowed it all away.


Then there was this trick:

"Adam and Eve and Pinch Metight
Went over the hill to see the fight.
Adam and Eve came back,
Who stayed to see the fight?"

"Pinch Metight----OUCH!"

Two ways to spell Mississippi:

(1) (By syllables, as learned by my grandmother in elementary school circa 1887) "M-I-S, Mis, S-I-S, sis, Missis, S-I-P, sip, Mississip, P-I, pi, Mississippi."

(2) Funny way: "Em eye crooked-letter crooked-letter eye crooked-letter crooked-letter eye humpback humpback eye."

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