Sometimes for no apparent reason I'll break into the Lumberjack song. "Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay."

Frosty The Lucky.

Do you skip and jump and like to press wild flowers?

And go to the lavatry. 

I had songs coming and going all the time then discovered I had my son's ear phones with a  radio in it  on  Usually any songs in my mind  gets replaced when I hit my thumb  or something.it gets replaced immediately by something less charitable.  .   

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso...................

12 minutes ago, mcostello said:

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso...............

Hey !! That one got me last week!

And Colina, goooood, byyyye.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say,
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip,
Big iron on his hip

The Tennessee stud was long and lean

Color of the sun and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

The Tennessee stud was long and lean

Color of the sun and his eyes were green

He had the nerve and he had the blood

there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud

The Idaho spud is round and green.
Covered with butter and sour cream.
Dig it from the ground and scrape off the mud;
Never was a tater like the Idaho spud.

(although I wouldn't recommend eating green potatoes.)

1 hour ago, JHCC said:

Never was a tater like the Idaho spud.

can see you never have eaten a Green Mountain Potato,  John.

most of my limericks are left from the Army and  not printable here.   

Hey, I don't write the songs. And yeah, I've eaten -- and grown! -- plenty of Green Mountain potatoes. 

As for limericks:

 

There once was a man from Anjou,

Whose limerick stopped at line two. 

Oh joy now I have an "Idaho Spud" earworm!

I'll admit looking up the name of the toxin found in chlorophyll  just like I had to look up how to spell chlorophyll. Let Google fill the holes in your memory caused by age and timber! 

Solanine content increases in the parts of a potato plant containing chlorophyll as an insecticide and deterrent to being eaten. Causes nausea, headaches and neurological problems in excess. Unless migraine type headaches and nausea, severity depending on how much you can force down, it's unlikely a person could eat enough potatoes at one sitting to kill themselves.

Solanine is the toxin found in Nightshade and relatives. Don't eat tomato leaves OR green tomatos, not even breaded and fried! Unless you're more sensitive than normal a baked green potato or a couple slices of green tomato aren't likely to have noticeable effects on you.

Do NOT eat the leaves, stems, shoots, etc., those will make you wish you hadn't!

Frosty The Lucky.

8 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Oh joy now I have an "Idaho Spud" earworm!

My work here is done.

11 hours ago, JHCC said:

There once was a man from Anjou,
Whose limerick stopped at line two. 

There once was a man from Verdun.

Fried Green Tomatoes are a necessary part of my diet---I'll have to try the Mithradates Methodology!

5 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

Fried Green Tomatoes are a necessary part of my diet---I'll have to try the Mithradates Methodology!

Mithradates Methodology?

Clue us in please, is there a recipe involved? Do I really have to Google it myself? I'm really trying to hang onto my youth what's left of it so I'm trying to avoid as much honest research as possible but I dearly do love a good recipe. 

Okay I couldn't resist and looked. I'll pass on any recipes. 

Frosty The Lucky.

14 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Mithradates Methodology?

There was a king reigned in the East:    
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think    
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.    
He gathered all that springs to birth    
From the many-venomed earth;    
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;    
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,    
Sate the king when healths went round.    
They put arsenic in his meat    
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup    
And shook to see him drink it up:    
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:    
Them it was their poison hurt.    
—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.

(From "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E. Housman: LXII. "Terence, this is stupid stuff")

That poem ls also mentioned in "Strong Poison" Dorothy Sayers

I can quote large portions of A Shropshire Lad...it was a favorite of mine back in college in the '70's

 

25 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

That poem ls also mentioned in "Strong Poison" Dorothy Sayers

"When the prisoner and his escort had departed, Wimsey turned thoughtfully to Bunter, glass in hand.

"'Mithridates he died old, says the poet. But I doubt it, Bunter. In this case I very much doubt it.'"

"You Belong to Me" still stuck in there, but "Something" by the Beatles, "Oh, Boy!" by Buddy Holly and Marty Robbins' "El Paso" floated through yesterday.

Understandable, spring irrigation has started and so there is enough water in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo to float a song. Last week it was more suitable for Beach Vollyball.

dead skunk in the middle of the road

Shoulda been a cowboy! Dead skunk-priceless.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

3 hours ago, Frosty said:

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

Huh, Jerry, IIRC, he used to live up the road from me.

Sometimes the name of a song just pops into your mind. I had a hole punch slug drop near my foot and immediately thought of Jumping Jack Flash.