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Help with an old poem, please!

(35 Posts)
Tegan Sun 24-Feb-13 21:47:16

It's so frustrating when you remember something that no one else does. I've just sat through all three series of Pathfinders in Space which are now on dvd. I spent @ 45 years asking people if they could remember the series and the wonder of modern technology brought them to me. I'm still searching for a book called Lad, a Dog that I can picture in my head but want so much to see again. The books are still available but the picture book I had as a child doesn't seem to exist any more.

Sue162 Sun 24-Feb-13 21:23:57

No honestly, it has no saucy content! This cat does all the sort of things cats do, including scratching a leather chair and fighting on the roof tops. It has a somewhat Edwardian tone to my ears but as my DH is only 70, he would not have been around then!

I suspect it may have been from a children's rhyme book. Well, you never know, someone out there in Gransnet Land may know it. In the meantime, thank you all for your input. smile

Tegan Sun 24-Feb-13 19:19:39

Sounds like something by Rambling Syd Rumpo t'me wink...

Ana Sun 24-Feb-13 18:46:55

Agree, Jess, but if Sue's DH can quote most of this particular song, and she hasn't indicated that the content was risqué in any way, I assumed that it wasn't.

JessM Sun 24-Feb-13 18:38:58

But there were a lot of risque rhymes and songs used in the music halls hmm

Ana Sun 24-Feb-13 18:27:12

Ladies! I think you're getting carried away here (isn't the Convoluted Insult Generator enough for you? wink). It sounds from Sue's post that it was a perfectly innocent rhyme about a pussy-cat, although obviously its origins are lost in the mists of time.....

dottilind Sun 24-Feb-13 17:56:56

I could fill in the gaps, but I wont, I suspect it was made up by one of his friends in school, as we did.wink

Ariadne Sun 24-Feb-13 17:47:21

I would think the juxtaposition of "pussy" and "smut" might bring up some interesting Google results....

baubles Sun 24-Feb-13 17:29:00

Sorry, Sue it isn't ringing any bells with me.

Sue162 Sun 24-Feb-13 13:02:23

My DH is driving me mad with an old poem he remembers from his childhood. He can't remember who wrote it but can quote most of it and is longing to know where it comes from? We have Googled to no effect and because the name of the cat in the poem is "Smut" you can imagine the sort of things that come up! LOL! I won't quote all of it but it starts: "I wish you could have seen him, our little pussy cat. He came to us so scrag and lean and went away so fat." Most of the verses end "he really couldn't help it, couldn't Smut". Not exactly Robert Browning but until he finds out where it came from he will be impossible to live with!!! grin