Except for “She sells seashells by the seashore.” It’s about my girl Mary Anning (1799-1847) who hunted and sold fossils (often shells) along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. She discovered the first complete skeleton of a Plesiosaurus in 1823. She was awesome!
Got to jump over the moon when it’s on the horizon and the jumper is on a hill top. And the observer is slightly down the hill and can see the moon appear to be under the jumper.
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a poem that explains how the cow jumped over the moon. The Man in the Moon came down to the local inn, got drunk and fell asleep. The other patrons had to load him back into the moon while the Cat with its fiddle played Hey Diddle Diddle, a jig that would wake the dead. The cow got so excited by all the noise that she jumped over the moon as the horses of the moon got started back home, just as the sun came up.
Averagemoe 24 days ago
Which moon? We’ve counted 293 in our solar system alone.
codycab 24 days ago
Cows also give us milk, Marigold. Your move!
mccollunsky 24 days ago
Sadly, not made of cheese either.
iggyman 24 days ago
You’re missing the cat with a fiddle, Marigold, and where is the laughing dog, and the runaway dinnerware?!
iggyman 24 days ago
“Cow” a bunga, Marigold!
prairiedogdance Premium Member 24 days ago
Didn’t Marigold once take Phoebe to the moon? Or am I thinking of some other magical pal comic?
prrdh 24 days ago
Actually, that story got garbled. The cow went up to the top of the ski ramp and flashed its butt: it mooned over the jump, not the other way around.
HarpGirl 24 days ago
Except for “She sells seashells by the seashore.” It’s about my girl Mary Anning (1799-1847) who hunted and sold fossils (often shells) along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. She discovered the first complete skeleton of a Plesiosaurus in 1823. She was awesome!
Anon4242 24 days ago
Got to jump over the moon when it’s on the horizon and the jumper is on a hill top. And the observer is slightly down the hill and can see the moon appear to be under the jumper.
BiggerNate91 24 days ago
Don’t tell that to Vitruvius.
Billy Yank 24 days ago
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a poem that explains how the cow jumped over the moon. The Man in the Moon came down to the local inn, got drunk and fell asleep. The other patrons had to load him back into the moon while the Cat with its fiddle played Hey Diddle Diddle, a jig that would wake the dead. The cow got so excited by all the noise that she jumped over the moon as the horses of the moon got started back home, just as the sun came up.
Stephen Gilberg 24 days ago
Most of my weekly poems are about facts. Here’s a recent example:
While carrots can bolster the health of your eyes
With a big dose of vitamin A,
They won’t make your vision work better than normal:
You can’t see by night as by day.
So how was the rumor blown out of proportion?
It flourished in World War II,
When ministers claimed British pilots ate carrots
So night raids were easy to do.
Of course, this was mere propaganda; they meant
To divert any German tactician.
We’re not sure it worked, but the public was fooled
Into buying the whole superstition.