Five brothers on the same day born...

[bocadillo]

Seems an appropriate day to give this little ditty an airing. SWMBO has it as her party-piece but I've never heard anybody else say it.

Have you heard it before? If you have, you will be able to tell me what it relates to.

Any romantics among you? Can you guess or work out what it's about? Remember that I said this is an appropriate day to talk about it. There are probably more of these about today than any other day of the year.



Five brothers on the same day born
Two were bearded
Two were shorn
The other put the rest to shame
One side bearded
One side plain

 

[spionfox]

Seems an appropriate day to give this little ditty an airing. SWMBO has it as her party-piece but I've never heard anybody else say it.

Have you heard it before? If you have, you will be able to tell me what it relates to.

Any romantics among you? Can you guess or work out what it's about? Remember that I said this is an appropriate day to talk about it. There are probably more of these about today than any other day of the year.



Five brothers on the same day born
Two were bearded
Two were shorn
The other put the rest to shame
One side bearded
One side plain

Have you made that up? Even a Google search doesn't help!!!

 

[bocadillo]

Have you made that up? Even a Google search doesn't help!!!

Once you know what it relates to, you will realise that I am not bright enough to have made it up. I googled it too - very surprised that it returned absolutely nothing relevant.

 

[Jeff]

Even a Google search doesn't help!!!

You didn't try hard enough.

 

[spionfox]

You didn't try hard enough.

Hmmm. I recognise a challenge when I read one!

If it takes me a month, I'll get back to you on this!

 

[Jeff]

Hmmm. I recognise a challenge when I read one!

If it takes me a month, I'll get back to you on this!

It took me two attempts with Google.

I didn't find Mrs Boc's version, but did find other versions of the same thing, and they seem to have been translated from Latin.

 

[Siouxsie]

It took me two attempts with Google.

I didn't find Mrs Boc's version, but did find other versions of the same thing, and they seem to have been translated from Latin.

I found this:


On a summer's day, in sultry weather,
Five brethren were born together.
Two had beards and two had none,
And the other had but half a one.

 

[Melton Fox]

I sense an anti climax of humongous proportions.

 

[muzzysgal]

I had no trouble finding it on Google

The five brothers are the five sepals of Rosa canina but the dog rose and its
progeny are not unique among roses in this respect. You may prove this yourself by
taking any rose in your garden and examining the sepals. There you will find that
two of the sepals have leafy appendages (beards) on both sides of the sepals, two
have such appendages on neither side, and the fifth will have the appendages on
only one side.

 

[SwedeFox]

Or this:

Five brothers on the same day were born;
Two only full great whiskers have;
Two never have any need to shave.
While the third has one side shorn.

Too easy Boc, give us a new one.:icon_bigg
No-one has given me a rose to try it though.:icon_sad:

 

[Melton Fox]

Is it about lezzers?

 

[Siouxsie]

Or this:




No-one has given me a rose to try it though.:icon_sad:

Don't worry - they're over rated and overpriced on Valentine's Day.

 

[drummindefender]

what the ****s going on

 

[The Major]

what the ****s going on

I'm not sure, I think it's something to do with lezzers.

 

[Macky]

SWMBO has it as her party-piece ...

Five brothers on the same day born
Two were bearded
Two were shorn
The other put the rest to shame
One side bearded
One side plain

She sounds like the life & soul Bob.
What kind of parties are these? Do you have to put your keys into a bowl?

 

[Darth Vodka]

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
And every wife had seven sacks
And every sack had seven cats
And every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

 

[homer]

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
And every wife had seven sacks
And every sack had seven cats
And every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

Just you, as the destination of the other travellers and their animal companions is unstated

 

[Siouxsie]

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
And every wife had seven sacks
And every sack had seven cats
And every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

I think the RSPCA should have been informed.