From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:26:56 -0500, Les Cargill wrote:   
      
   > The old geezer wrote:   
   >> ...I was hoping some of our European friends might have some knowledge   
   >> about a particular line in this tune that I've never understood   
   >> (thinking it may be an "English thing")..   
   >>   
   >> ..."And her father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax".....   
   >>   
   >> Is this the US equivalent of "making license plates"?....meaning that   
   >> the person is in prison?  Or "weaving baskets"...meaning in a mental   
   >> Hospital?   
   >>   
   >> Or whatever.....   
   >>   
   >> The Old Geezer   
   >>   
   >> ND: Muskoka Brewery Autumn Ale NP: The Singles Collection - Mick & the   
   >> gang   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > "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."   
   >   
   > Or perhaps "sealing wax" simply sounds like something somebody really   
   > old would do.   
      
   Lewis Carol was known for his nonsense verse: think "Jabberwocky". This   
   poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter", has nonsensical elements throughout   
   it and is itself part of a book that's filled with whimsical incidents,   
   so the 'sealing-wax' line isn't at all out of place as a topic in a very   
   strange discussion.   
      
   The real mystery is why Jagger mentioned sealing wax: the stuff is quite   
   a complex mixture, so making a good batch of it can't be all that easy.   
      
      
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