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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    The circle of life Iainimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Iain R says:

    ... not sure who wrote it originally.

    Rags make Paper

    Paper makes Money

    Money makes Banks

    Banks make Loans

    Loans make Beggars

    Beggars make Rags

    See original post

     http://www.witleypress.co.uk/book_paperprinting.html

    Paper Facts.....

    Until the end of the 19th century, papermaking involved searches for rags to make paper. This fact must have been on the mind of this anonymous 18th-century English poet who penned the following verse: 

    RAGS make paper 
    PAPER makes money 
    MONEY makes banks 
    BANKS make loans 
    LOANS make beggars 
    BEGGARS make RAGS

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530

    My dad was fond of reciting this paraphrased nursery rhyme:

    "Scintillate, scintillate, orb vivific,

    Fain would I fathom thy nature specific, 

    Loftily poised in the ether capacious,

    Closely resembling a gem carbonaceous."

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    B3 says:

    A man was parked outside our house today. He held his cigarette out of the window of his car and blew the smoke out too.

    Why is he more concerned about smoke in his car than smoke in his lungs?

    See original post

     Maybe it was a work/hire/lease car ... not supposed to smoke in those nowadays. 

    Last edited: 08 January 2018 13:05:39


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751

    Hi Dove, yes, that's quite a possibility, I think. image

  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751

    There's quite a story behind your father's rhyme, Josusa!

    The whole story begins with a nursery rhyme, entitled, THE STAR, which was parodied by Lewis Carrol in Alice in Wonderland:

    https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-publication-of-twinkle-twinkle-little-star

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Bat

    Your father's version was yet another parody of the original:

    https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/teaser.php?op=2&id=198&comm=0

    and it was written by John Carson:

    http://www.carsonfamilyhistory.com/books/JohnRaymondCarson1936/ScintillateScintillate.html

    I admit, I had never heard of the latter or his ...scintillating rhyme before! image

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,091
    Artemis3 says:

    I admit, I had never heard of the latter or his ...scintillating rhyme before! image

    See original post

    I've seen it before, I think in an old Readers Digest or some such. I'm sure it had a second verse though, along the lines of 

    "When torrid Phoebus refuses his presence

    And ceases to light us with fierce incandescence

    Then you illiumine the regions supernal

    Scintillate scintillate semper nocturnal"

    And as I recall there was another version published with it:

    "Twinkle twinkle little star

    I don't wonder what you are

    You're the cooling down of gases

    Forming into solid masses"

    but I don't know who that should be attributed to 

    Last edited: 08 January 2018 19:32:06

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • I've never come across either but the first seems like irony or sycophantic flattery, whilst the second must surely have something to do with science? image

  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751

    Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash

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                                                                      YES!  image

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Shouldn't have been appointed in the first place.

    SW Scotland
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