brennig jones wrote in message ...
>Siderius Nuncius wrote in message ...
>>Well, Mornington Crescent as we know it today is in fact a modern version
>of
>>a much older French game. In this, postmodernists moved from cafe to cafe
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>ISTR that the earliest recorded French version inolved moving from
>guillotine to guillotine ......

Surely that was Soigner Casse-Cou? It is not known how a practice involving
peripatetic French death-trap attendants evolved into the harmlessly
humorous musical pastime we know today.

And as for "Ou un songe tousse, Saturn avant Auxerre", although the French
postmodernists have offered dozens of explanations of how a dream may cough,
why Saturn should be in the Yonne region at all remains a mystery. There
is,
however, a substantial library in Auxerre of postmodernist theses about how
it makes perfect sense in the context of its own reality. It is believed
that the game was brought to Britain by returning Crusaders, who, being
Sensible British Chaps, transformed it into the charming, lyrical and
down-to-earth practice of modern times.

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Sid
Shepherds Bush, West London