#BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday team up, take the opportunity & give you:

“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”

Little Willie hung his sister;
She was dead before we missed her.
Willie's always up to tricks.
Ain't he cute? He's only six.

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"I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife."

Anonymous
🎨 Pieter Brueghel the Younger

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘The Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at Teme Mara [the Plain of Murthemne, Co. Louth, between Dundalk and the Boyne]., i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea:
Silent thy hollow head […]

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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘The Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at Teme Mara [the Plain of Murthemne, Co. Louth, between Dundalk and the Boyne]., i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea:
Silent thy hollow head,
Silent thy dirty body,
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An Ode to a Sad Existence What happens if I am not me?

"I wished I was a flower underneath a great big tree,
But then a dog would come along & shower me with wee.
I wished I was a chestnut tree with lots of lovely conkers,
But kids would come & nick my nuts & that would..."

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www.storiesspace.com/stories/poet...

Roughly the area of the Great Secret of the men of Dea, Co Louth, map data © Google 2026

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer.
‘Not hard to tell,’ said #Cuchulaind. ‘… over the Great Secret of the Men of Dea. …`
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Source […]

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Roughly the area of the Great Secret of the men of Dea, Co Louth, map data © Google 2026

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer.
‘Not hard to tell,’ said #Cuchulaind. ‘… over the Great Secret of the Men of Dea. …`
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Source: celt.ucc.ie/publishe...
Find the answer in the comments!

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"The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella!"

Charles Bowen
🎨George Cruikshank

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"We are little airy creatures,
All of different voice and features;
One of us in glass is set,
One of us you'll find in jet.
T'other you may see in tin,
And the fourth a box within.
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you."

Jonathan Swift

The Plain of Murthemne, Co Louth, map data © Google 2026.png

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer.
‘Not hard to tell,’ said #Cuchulaind. ‘From the Cover of the Sea, …`
Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021.html
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Find the answer in the comments!

The Plain of Murthemne, Co Louth, map data © Google 2026.png

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer.
‘Not hard to tell,’ said #Cuchulaind. ‘From the Cover of the Sea, …`
Source: celt.ucc.ie/publishe...
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Find the answer in the comments!

Words and illustration for the old nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Tossed up in Basket Seventeen Times As A High as The Moon. The old woman is shown accompanied by a small child as she brushed the cobwebs from the sky.

"There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Seventeen times as high as the moon...."

from the Third Ladybird Book of Nursery Rhymes (1967), illustration by Frank Hampson

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I remember this as a child 😁

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BlueSky has been out of action all day here in the UK - at least for me - so it's good to be ostentiferous again, just as I celebrate hitting 2K followers, achieved over almost exactly a year, thanks to your support. I seem to have found my crowd!
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Sliab Fuait [Slieve Fuad] could be located to the north-west of Forkhill, County Armagh; map data (C) Google 2026

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou come?’ said Emer.
‘Between the Two Mountains of the Wood,’ said #Cuchulaind.`
Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021.html
Which road did the Hound of Ulster take?
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Sliab Fuait [Slieve Fuad] could be located to the north-west of Forkhill, County Armagh; map data (C) Google 2026

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou come?’ said Emer.
‘Between the Two Mountains of the Wood,’ said #Cuchulaind.`
Source: celt.ucc.ie/publishe...
Which road did the Hound of Ulster take?
Find the answer in the comments!

I remember this as a child 😁

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#BookChatWeekly

SOCKDOLAGER (n.):

A knockdown blow or decisive point in an argument; a clincher

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There was an Owl lived in an oak, Whiskey, Whaskey, Weedle;
And all the words he ever spoke Were Fiddle, Faddle, Feedle.

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1877)
art by Lily Seika Jones
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War chariot, MAMUZ; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘What was your food there?’ Emer asked.
‘The ruin of a chariot was cooked for us there,’ #Cuchulaind replied.
What is the ruin of a chariot?
Find the answer in the comments!
Source […]

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War chariot, MAMUZ; photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘What was your food there?’ Emer asked.
‘The ruin of a chariot was cooked for us there,’ #Cuchulaind replied.
What is the ruin of a chariot?
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Welcome to #BookologyThursday

@bookcat.bsky.social here teaming up with #BookologyThursday & #WyrdWednesday for the topic:

“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”

along with: Odd slang, Silly Archaic Insults, Onomatopoeia, and Unusual Etymologies

in literature, art, and lore.

Day 2 of our #WyrdWednesday / #BookologyThursday crossover!

The theme - “Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes!”

And remember, at no point in the rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg...

🎨 by Blanche Fisher Wright

Ostentiferous - that which brings monsters or strange sights.
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Thank you for participating in today's #WyrdWednesday, dear Wyrdlings!

The fun is only beginning! Do participate again tomorrow and be sure to also tag our friends at #BookologyThursday for a repost.

We hope you are enjoying our bookish collab of "Absurd words, nonsense poems, and nursery rhymes."

The Amorous Devil

“Daurand and Widritod
Have taken my beloved!”

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Amorous_Devil

Hinzelmann

“My thumb, my thumb,
My elbows are two!”

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann

Some rhymes repeat because repetition itself creates power. In folklore, saying something again and again can turn it into something more than words. #WyrdWednesday

Art: Rene Magritte

The Little Fodder Man at Thimmendorf

“There I have my wage,
and now I must go away.”

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wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Little_Fodder_M...