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The time has come My little friends To talk of many things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings Ha ha Callo-Callay Come, run away With cabbages and kings Well, now, uh, let me see Ah! A loaf of bread Is what we chiefly need!
The poem has since been cited in the context of the recent introduction of larger vehicles (including "bendy" buses). The poem may owe its continued popularity to the large number of pupils who formerly had to learn Latin as a compulsory subject for University entrance exams (not just for Oxford and Cambridge) in the United Kingdom. [4]
Fastitocalon, the central character in the poem, is the last of the mighty turtle-fish. This poem is well known to the Hobbits. It tells of how Fastitocalon's huge size, a "whale-island", [5] enticed sailors to land on its back. After the sailors lit a fire upon Fastitocalon, it dived underwater, causing the sailors to drown.
An old saying claims that it was so large that it fed on seven whales: Local folklores say this huge animal can disguise itself as a small silver fish when fishermen came in contact with it. [3] Other accounts state the reason for the disguise was to attract its next meal; when the fisherman would catch it in its small silver fish form, once ...
The Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band The Legendary Pink Dots references an albatross in the song "Twilight Hour", a song with strong reference itself to the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The Little River Band has a song called "Cool Change", which contains the line: "Albatross and the Whale are my brother".
"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem [1] by William Topaz McGonagall about the Tay Whale, also known as the Monster, a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port. The doggerel verse is famous for lacking poetic quality.
Cox acknowledged the 14-day turnaround was “a big ask," but Catching Freedom is catching attention for his easy stride and becoming a buzzy Preakness pick. “Looking at the race now, it’s a ...
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish" is chapter 89 of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, in which Ishmael, the book's narrator, explains the concept of "Fast-Fish" and "Loose-Fish." If a whale, whether dead or not, is marked by a ship's crew with anything to claim it, such as a harpoon or rope, it is a "fast-fish", that is, it must be left alone by ...