Years and years ago (when even the author of the book deemed it maybe a little too old for me) I got the book Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts by Josepha Sherman. Now, honestly, it is an amazingly awesome book. I remember trolling the hallways of my high school after classes while hanging out with friends and singing out some of the ones that bash education and school in general. They were fun to giggle over and it was always nice to have a comeback in rhyme handy if someone got up in my face. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise - it is fantastic to confound your opponent with rhyme. They give you the BEST looks.
Why is any of this important? Well, I'll tell you.
I got it into my head to incorporate nursery rhymes and limericks into my novel as something positive for Dean to latch onto. Dean? Dean who? Well, you'll learn of him eventually. Dean is the Black King and one of my two main characters (the other is Graham/Medic). Maybe I'll post something pretty about him and Medic later on. Either tomorrow or next week. A good way for everyone to meet them...that's not, you know, spoilerific on the main books. ;)
What I was wondering (and the real whole point of this post besides letting Jae just ramble her head off) is what you're favorite rhymes were as a kid. Or limericks. Or just in general. I find myself humming Miss Mary Mack or reciting Sally had a Steamboat when cleaning every now and then, and then there's the times when it's absolutely gorgeous and sunny out and I start humming the words to "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." What can I say, I'm slightly perverse.
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