PANCAKE DAY RHYMES

[gratedenini]

My Nana taught me this one and must be about 100yrs old......

Pancake Tuesday, a very happy day,

If yer don`t give us a holiday, we`ll all run away.

Run lasses run,down the lane,

Cos here`s Fanny Ogle comin with the cane

den

[Bezdad]

[greenfairy43]

It's not a Pancake Day one, but when we were walking along the pavement,my Gran would always recite:

"Tread on a line & you'll marry a swine

And a beetle will come to your wedding."

Love it!

[The Nal]

More of a joke, and oldie but goodie:

A Welshman, an Englishman and an Irishman were having a drink.

They got to talking about children's names.

'My son was born on St David's Day', remarked the Welshman, 'So - look you, we obviously Christened him David.'

'That's a real coincidence', observed the Englishman', My son was born on Michaelmas Day, 29th of September, so we decided to call him Michael.'

'That's remarkable', piped up the Irishman, 'Exactly the same thing happened with my son Pancake.'

[gratedenini]

Flippin heck.. pulling a year old post out of retirement! But I suppose its relevent eh!

What is the rule of thumb re the date? It seems quite late and I thought it was usually in Febuary.

Its Pancake Day!

So lets all say

"Mix it up, mix it up fry it in the pan"

flip it over, flip it over, go and shag yer man.

When yer done

and had yer fun

Spread yer pancake with creamy warm ....

Goooo-on. Have some Pancake Day fun...

den

[The Nal]

What is the rule of thumb re the date? It seems quite late and I thought it was usually in Febuary.

[ampersand]

What are you giving up for Lent Denilson?

[gratedenini]

Its always the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of lent. So you can pig out on pancakes and shit before you give something up for lent. But as Easter is late this year, apparently they can change the day Jesus died willy-nilly, Pancake Tuesday is also late.

What are you giving up for Lent Denilson?

[ampersand]

easter is 24th april this year. so the best part of 2 months.

[The Nal]

PS.. how long is it? How long would I have to encarsarate my milt?

[ampersand]

40 days, not including Sundays, so 44 days this year I think. No chance of you lasting that long!

[gratedenini]

it's 46 if you're including ash wednesday, good friday, easter saturday and sundays.

[Petherton]

My grandmother also used to sing this at her primary school during the First World War. She lived in Birmingham, Uk. She used to sing it to when we were children. 
“ Pancake Day! Pancake Day! If you don’t give us a holiday, we’ll all run away!”