The last person to post on this thread is the best!

[jen_jen]

His would have to be orange or grey, in keeping with the site colours, don’t you think? :wink:

[sceptical guy]

Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly

Lavender’s green

[jen_jen]

Uhuh

[sceptical guy]

@jen_jen wrote:

Uhuh

I’m sure those weren’t the next lines we all sang at school so long ago.

I wondered what dilly meant then, and now I KNOOOOWWW – it means silly!!!

doesn’t it??

lavender has a whole other meaning, and leads me to wonder at who was teaching us?

[jen_jen]

See what you’ve done now, I had to go and google!
Dilly means something remarkable or outstanding.

And I never knew the other meaning of lavendar :oops:

[sceptical guy]

@jen_jen wrote:

See what you’ve done now, I had to go and google!
Dilly means something remarkable or outstanding.

And I never knew the other meaning of lavendar :oops:

you are so innocent, Jen :shock:

dilly is Picadilly, aka rent-boy alley :P – or it was when I lived in London

Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly
Lavender’s green
You be my King, dilly dilly
I’ll be your Queen

I found the song very pleasing when I was in junior school

[jen_jen]

I don’t think I have ever been described as innocent but there’s always a first time! :oops:

[sceptical guy]

@jen_jen wrote:

I don’t think I have ever been described as innocent but there’s always a first time! :oops:

lol – I was innocent once upon a time

[jen_jen]

I suppose I was innocent when I was born…that didn’t last long though :lol:

[sceptical guy]

Well, I am innocent now, so my innocence lasted a long time

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