Date: 2012-06-22 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] impulsereader.livejournal.com
I like it! It's now firmly swirling around with all the rest of holiday #2 and perhaps it will take root.

Date: 2012-06-24 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] natsuko1978.livejournal.com
BTW, you do know the whole of "Round and round the garden", don't you? (And also "Jim'll Fix It"?)

Date: 2012-06-24 01:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] impulsereader.livejournal.com
Actually, no. I'm going to go out on a limb and say most americans wouldn't even know those were 'things' which could/should be googled, so this would be a good entry for your series.

Date: 2012-06-24 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] natsuko1978.livejournal.com
The "Dear Jim, please can you fix it for me..." bit from Great Game is a reference to a long-running (1970s to 1990s) TV show, "Jim'll Fix It".

People (mostly children) wrote in to Sir Jimmy Saville asking for him to make their various wishes/dreams come true. The programme aired on a Saturday tea-time. The letters invariably began "Dear Jim, please can/could you fix it for me..." and my Scout troop to eat our packed lunches on a roller coaster, to play "Mimi" in that scene in La Boheme with the "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen" aria, etc etc etc. Children who appeared on the show also got a medalion on a red ribbon with proclaimed "Jim Fixed It For Me". :D

"Round and round the garden" is a game/rhyme with actions played by an adult on a small child.

"Round and round the garden, like a teddy-bear" -- you draw circles on the child's hand or tummy with a finger.

"One step, two steps" -- you "walk" your fingers to the child's armpit.

"Tickle you under there!" -- um, well, it's obvious, isn't it? :D

Given that Sherlock deleted the solar system, enquiring minds want to know why - when there is so very much pop-culture on which he is blank - he retained *these*. lol

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