Who remembers this from school NF

[Big Cliff]

Add the next line if you do. Only one line, lets see if we can finish it.

 

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,

[ketchenany]

gees I never heard that out in the hallway!

 

In a shop class one year we had a guy who was dense as a rock. The teacher told him "we should build you playpen", with out missing a beat he said "one big enough for the two of us."

[SirCranksalot]

Add the next line if you do. Only one line, lets see if we can finish it.

 

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,

 

But the queerest they ever did see,

"twas there..........ooops, just 1 line he said

[Terry]

Robert Service would change the words if it was written today

lol

[Old Ironmaker]

Yea today it would be deemed as insensitive and politically incorrect. I don't know the rest and never heard of the first line either. One of the schools I went to didn't have hall monitors it had Correctional Officers. You didn't graduate you got out on good behaviour.

[fishforfun]

Had to memorize this for grade 7 English, funny the things that stick with you when you're 60!

There were strange things done in the midnight sun

by the men that moil for gold.

[misfish]

Yea today it would be deemed as insensitive and politically incorrect. I don't know the rest and never heard of the first line either. One of the schools I went to didn't have hall monitors it had Correctional Officers. You didn't graduate you got out on good behaviour.

 

We must of met at some point. LOL

[bigugli]

We did not learn any of Robert Service's work. For us it was .... "the old lie, 'Dulci decorest et pro patria mori' ".

[Old Ironmaker]

Ugli. English, Fin, Italian and Latin, what else? We certainly weren't in the same class. And you make a mean Salsa I hear.

[bigugli]

Ugli. English, Fin, Italian and Latin, what else? We certainly weren't in the same class. And you make a mean Salsa I hear.

The line is Latin but it is from the war poetry of Wilfred Owen

[Beans]

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see

Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

 

That's all I can remember Folks !

Edited March 1, 2017 by Beans