Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh!
That song got stuck in my head today, and it got me thinking about the part in the song about the sealing wax...
When I was younger, I actually thought it was ceiling wax. Of course I never thought of sealing anything, and I knew what a ceiling was and I new what wax was, so I put two and two together to get ceiling wax...
I figured they just used it to fill cracks in the ceiling or to make the ceiling shiny or something...
[by the way, they are homophones. ceiling and sealing. because they sound the same. because that is a homophone. words that sound the same. like read and reed. bank and bank are homonyms. same word, different meaning.]
in any case, now whenever I sing that song, to myself or in my head, I picture ceilings...
I think I remember lorie buying so stationary that included some sealing wax and a seal.
Using seals and sealing wax is magically reminiscent of the middle ages, since when I would watch period movies or shows, they would scratch away a letter with a quill and ink well, pepper it with some powder (I actually thought they sprinkled it with pepper, because whenever someone did that, they almost always sneezed immediately afterwards), and then blotting it, before rolling it up and stamping their seal upon the wax.
So when I do use sealing wax, I am whisked away into the dark ages of kings and knights and the bubonic plague...
well not so much the plague.
eric once named a chipmunk "Bubba"...
after the bubonic plague.
I hope my sister does not allow him to name my future niece or nephew (or both) with the same presence of mind... um... or lack therof.
I'm sure they will pick "Ryan" if it's a boy, or "Rya" if it's a girl.
:-P
or not... Read more.
