Oh! I am so glad you chimed in on this! You gave even more detail about the origin and background of this ^V^ Personally I love the music, and um, well, when I was a little kid I thought a lot of those strange words were magical references to imaginary beasts (like in the Lewis Carroll stuff), so I built my own imaginary mystique of a world around it. My Dad also bought me a billy-boil tin when I was a tyke, which additionally fueled my enjoyment of the lore :>
Cool. Did you make billy tea? You can tell the 'tourist' version to the real billy tea tins... As you need to swing it around your head (to settle the tea leaves), any 'proper' tin has the wire handle twisted around through holes in the metalwork... lest the handle and tin depart company due to centrifugal force!
heh! Pretty sure I did... ^V^ It was just a tourist model though, most likely... I was just a kid, and a real tin woulda probably knocked me over :D It had lotsa stuff with it, little quotes and drawings n stuff... I still have it I think, somewhere...
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Date: 2008-12-28 12:21 pm (UTC)You gave even more detail about the origin and background of this ^V^
Personally I love the music, and um, well, when I was a little kid I thought a lot of those strange words were magical references to imaginary beasts (like in the Lewis Carroll stuff), so I built my own imaginary mystique of a world around it. My Dad also bought me a billy-boil tin when I was a tyke, which additionally fueled my enjoyment of the lore :>
Re: *wags*
Date: 2008-12-28 01:07 pm (UTC)Re: jumbuck
Date: 2008-12-29 08:07 am (UTC)It was just a tourist model though, most likely... I was just a kid, and a real tin woulda probably knocked me over :D
It had lotsa stuff with it, little quotes and drawings n stuff... I still have it I think, somewhere...