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THE FÚFUMAL
by Kate Gladstone
Fúfu, small rabbit, fastest of hoppers,
Works in woodland his ways of evil:
Field-mice he finds, then hammers with head-blows,
Vexing the queen of the Vanir folk.
Down came good Freya, frowning at Fúfu.
Said she to the warren-born: "No worth I find
In your smiting of cheese-thieves. Smirk not, but obey me.
To change from your ways, three chances you'll have.
And if you change not, then a nithing you'll be."
Yet Fúfu, four-footed, fastest of hoppers,
Still works in woodland his ways of evil:
Field-mice he finds, then hammers with head-blows,
Vexing the queen of the Vanir folk.
Down came good Freya, frowning at Fúfu,
Said she to the short-tailed: "Shame do I find
In your smacking of squeakers, Smirk not, but obey me.
To change from your ways, two chances you have
And if you change not, then a nithing you'll be."
Yet Fúfu, long-footed, fastest of hoppers,
Still works in woodland his ways of evil:
Field-mice he finds, then hammers with head-blows,
Vexing the queen of the Vanir folk.
Down came good Freya, frowning at Fúfu,
Said she to the buck-toothed: "Badness I find
In your smashing of hole-gnawers, Smirk not, but obey me.
To change from your ways, one chance you now have
And if you change not, then a nithing you'll be."
Yet Fúfu, carrot-glad, fastest of hoppers,
Still works in woodland his ways of evil:
Field-mice he finds, then hammers with head-blows,
Vexing the queen of the Vanir folk.
Down came good Freya, frowning at Fúfu,
Said she to the long-eared, "You've lost your last chance.
Three warnings you've wasted. Now you shall obey me.
To change from your ways, no chance you now have:
Now and forever, a nithing shall be!"
THE MORAL:
Hare whose heart hates field-scurriers
Soon shall see himself made outlaw.
The preceding is from rec.music.filk. Kate, after having heard somewhere that "Little Bunny Foo Foo" is based on a Verdi tune (can't verdify this myself), wrote a set of Italian operatic lyrics to LBFF. After that, of course, she had to bardify it. Reprinted with permission.
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5/1/2007 Update: The Italian opera version is here.
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BEST THING EVAR
me: that is a thing of AWESOME
Betty: YES YES IT IS
Petra: DIES
me: haaaaaaaart
April 27 2007, 20:48:12 UTC 5 years ago
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April 27 2007, 21:50:04 UTC 5 years ago
Thank you. It's been too long since I read rmf, I see!
April 28 2007, 02:03:46 UTC 5 years ago
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April 28 2007, 04:44:09 UTC 5 years ago
if I'd known Old Norse, in Old Norse I'd have written
If I'd known Old Norse, in Old Norse I'd have writtenThe fell deeds of Fúfu. Find, if you can,
Somebody learned in that language who can
Do a translation. Let him or her send it
Out on the Internet, also to me:
"Handwritingrepair" first: put then an "at" sign,
With "gmail" to follow, then finish "dot-com."
;-)
April 28 2007, 13:20:49 UTC 5 years ago
rawr!
Hillarious! I totally love that!April 28 2007, 15:08:40 UTC 5 years ago
And I say that as a Girl Scout leader. :-)
April 28 2007, 15:34:38 UTC 5 years ago
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April 28 2007, 16:47:58 UTC 5 years ago
(That's an arrow of striking.)
April 28 2007, 16:52:00 UTC 5 years ago
April 28 2007, 17:47:22 UTC 5 years ago
Although now I'm flashing back to college band. We used to filk on the band director/student directors, and one of the older filks was "Little Mikey Dodo" (tto LBFF).
April 28 2007, 19:08:06 UTC 5 years ago
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MetaFilter
A small world THE FÚFUMAL is postedOn the unread blog my childhood friend wrote
http://www.metafilter.com/60706/The-Fuf
April 29 2007, 03:55:16 UTC 5 years ago
Re: MetaFilter
The world isn't small enough -- haven't seen you in ages. Gix said you'd called.This has gotten more comments (not by me) than anything I've ever written, I think. I'm sure the robot spammers will start putting messages here one day. Hey, tell those metafilter folks who asked about it that this is, indeed, the same Kate Gladstone with the handwriting web page. I was going to do it, then I saw it would cost me five quid to sign up.
5 years ago
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April 29 2007, 03:44:03 UTC 5 years ago
This former student of Anglo-Saxon can only say ... well, dammit, I can't find my Bright's Old English Grammar and Reader! I'll just have to say "awesome" and "thanks"!
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