Tiger Tyger

[gayalondiel_bak]

Numpty moment of the week, on discussing the difference between Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

 

Dad: He wrote 'Khubla Khan'.
Me: Isn't that the one about the tiger?
D: No. It's about Khubla Khan.
M: Wasn't he a tiger?
D: No.
M: Then which is the one about the tiger?
D: 'The Tiger'.
M: Then what am I thinking of?
Mum: Shere Khan from ' The Jungle Book'?
Me: ...ah.

 

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Comments

[shirebound]

What an adorable conversation.

[dreamflower]

LOL!

[febobe.livejournal.com]

*grins delightedly* Hee!

[anastasia-goth.livejournal.com]

You're too young to know your Frankie Goes To Hollywood. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a pleasuredome erect" which is bastardised from the Taylor Coleridge

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

When we did those poems in school my teacher said 'Oooh, a pleasure dome-- I'll have a dozen.'

At the time I was horrified at the idea of my teacher having pleasure-anything. I mean ick, he was so old! (I am now about the age he was then.)

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Oh dear. I could see myself getting muddled like that.

*grin*

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have ever kippled.

[sally_maria]

KHAAAANN!

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

ooh, I need to find that. I only know the two obvious Frankie tracks.

[anastasia-goth.livejournal.com]

First track of the album. Welcome to the pleasuredome

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Adorable, yes, but it does demonstrate how much my brain has melted since I left education.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

lol. I'm not sure teachers are supposed to make innuendo laden jokes regardless.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

XD

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

thank you!