Sorting, Ceiling Wax

[silveroak_us <silveroak_us@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Wendy St. John" 
<HebrideanBlack2002 at h...> wrote:

         <major snippage>
 
> And finally, Catlady wrote:
> 
> >re: Ceiling Wax
> >
> >When I was a child and heard the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" with
> >its Alice-in-Wonderland-ish line about "shoes and ships and sealing
> >wax and other magic things", I always heard it as "ceiling wax",
> >which I imagined to be similar to floor wax.
> >
> 
> Now me:
> LOL! Yes, I thought the same thing. Actually, even now, that's how 
I spell 
> ceiling wax in my mind when I hear or sing that song! <G>
> 

Now me (Miggs):

This may be just toooo far OT, but the reference to "sealing wax" is 
an echo (rip-off??) of a passage from the great Lewis Carroll, author 
of the Alice in Wonderland books. In the second Alice book, "Through 
the Looking Glass", there is a poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" 
with a famous passage...

"The time has come, the Walrus said, 
To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings;
And why the sea is boiling hot, 
And whether pigs have wings."

I have always loved Lewis Carroll and have memorized various parts of 
the books because they are just wonderful to read, and a lot of fun 
to say out loud, especially when people aren't expecting it.

BTW, I have tried many of the sorting hat sites, and always get into 
Ravenclaw, which is probably appropriate for me.

  **  Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle  **