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Re: A song for Mousie and famous
Posted By: Mousie, on host 199.107.4.10
Date: Friday, December 3, 1999, at 12:25:47
In Reply To: Re: A song for Mousie and famous posted by famous on Thursday, December 2, 1999, at 19:17:43:

> > "The Spider in the Bath" by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders (an English '50s comedy duo)
> >
> > I have fought a grizzly bear, tracked cobra to its lair,
> > Killed a crocodile who dared to cross my path,
> > But the thing I really dread when I've just got out of bed
> > Is to find that there's a spider in the bath.
> >
> > I've no fear of wasps or bees,
> > Mosquitoes only tease,
> > I rather like a cricket on the hearth,
> > But my blood runs cold to meet in pyjamas and bare feet,
> > With a great big hairy spider in the bath.
> >
> > I have faced a charging bull in Barcelona,
> > I have dragged a mountain lioness from her cubs,
> > I've restored a mad gorilla to its owner,
> > But I don't dare face that tub.
> >
> > What a frightful looking beast,
> > Half an inch across at least,
> > It would frighten even Superman or Goth.
> > There's contempt it can't disguise,
> > In the little beady eyes
> > Of the spider sitting glowering in the bath.
> >
> > It ignores my every lunge with the backbrush and the sponge,
> > I have bombed it with a present from Penarth.
> > It just rolls into a ball, doesn't seem to mind at all,
> > And simply goes on squatting in the bath.
> >
> > For hours we have been locked in endless struggle,
> > I have lured it to the deep end by the drain.
> > At last I think I've washed it down the plughole,
> > But here it comes a-crawling up the chain!
> >
> > Now it's time for me to shave, though my nerves will not behave,
> > And there's bound to be a fearful aftermath.
> > So before I cut my throat, I shall leave this final note:
> > "Driven to it by the spider in the bath."
>
> Thanks Brunnen_G. Now I'm never going to shower again.
>
> fam':)'ous

I used to vacuum them up. Now, I'm afraid they'll crawl right back out. famous and I will be very dirty girls with very unclean rugs from here on out.

Mou"there's a joke in there somewhere"sie

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