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Ten Little Soldier Boys

  • 01-07-2010 12:30am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭


    Ten little Soldier boys went out to dine;
    One choked his little self and then there were nine.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    ////fúcking hell man..

    worst thread ever


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    SV wrote: »
    ////fúcking hell man..

    worst thread ever

    Especially with the bigger boobs thread going on.


  • Moderators Posts: 8,725 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    I don't get it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    It's a METAPHOR!


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Nine little Soldier boys sat up very late;
    One overslept himself and then there were eight.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭IrishIrish


    Eight little Soldier boys considered going to heaven;
    One got his wish and then there were seven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    The rest got drunk and picked up the clap from a Dublin hooker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭i.need.a.job


    seven little soldiers boys wanted to have some fun
    they all jumped off a cliff and then there was none.



    game over :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Eight little Soldier boys traveling in Devon;
    One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Hang on, I just got a hellofa déja vu there.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Seven little Soldier boys chopping up sticks;
    One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Six little soldier boys got shot by the enemy.

    Amnesty International had a field day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    six little soldier boys got raped by the drill sergeant


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Six little Soldier boys playing with a hive;
    A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Bullsh*t. The army wouldn't recruit someone with such a fatal allergy. You're lying.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    I think these guys must be members of the Darwin Awards army from the sound of it Sarky! I mean, it takes real effort to laterally bisect oneself while chopping wood! :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I would say it's impossible!

    Just who was your source on that one, Dublindude69? I have serious reservations as to his or her reliability.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44,501 ✭✭✭✭Deki


    Five little soldier boys
    Cleaning up the gore
    One slipped and broke his neck
    Then they were four.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Oh now that's just a blatant disregard for health and safety procedures. Court martial tbh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Five little Soldier boys going in for law;
    One got in Chancery and then there were four.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    4 little soldier boys, died of dysentery.

    Conditions in the rebel camp were appalling. Many wonder if the price of freedom is worth the lives of so many firstborn sons, but they disappear in the night, screaming.


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Four little Soldier boys going out to sea;
    A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    3 little soldiers got dipped in egg and eaten.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Suddenly, world peace!


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Three little Soldier boys walking in the zoo;
    A big bear hugged one and then there were two.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Ahem:
    Sarky wrote: »
    Suddenly, world peace!


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Two Little Soldier boys sitting in the sun;
    One got frizzled up and then there was one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    One little Soldier boy left all alone;
    He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    That was sh*t.

    Just thought it needed to be said.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    They did very little actual soldering. Honestly, and they call themselves electronic experts?


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Sarky wrote: »
    That was sh*t.

    Just thought it needed to be said.
    You'll find the world works better when you aren't jealous of other peoples threads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    They did very little actual soldering. Honestly, and they call themselves electronic experts?

    Seriously, what kind of soldering iron stops working if you leave it in the sun too long? I found the whole thing highly dubious, tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    After employing their services, my toaster opened a wormhole through the wall of my apartment, and the great old ones are trying to come through.

    My land lord is going to go apesh!t.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Holy crap!


    ... Hey, maybe they could help with the Microwaves & Time Travel forum!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    TBH they seem more interested in enslaving us to their will and watching re-runs of Scrubs.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    They did have a certain "do not question, only obey" sort of vibe to them. Not to mention they were all only boys. Must have been one of those 3rd world nutcase armies full of brainwashed children. It sickened me that Dublindude69 had no qualms about killing them off so casually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Personally, I think he took a certain delight in their deaths, and it would not surprise me in the slightest to find out that he had a hand in orchestrating their demise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    He WAS very up-to-date on their numbers and positions. I think he was a commanding officer gone bad. Disgraceful tbh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    You people need to get some culture. I tried to be PC, it was orginally Ten little ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    I'll have you know that I'm a cultured swine flu


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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Personally, I think he took a certain delight in their deaths, and it would not surprise me in the slightest to find out that he had a hand in orchestrating their demise.
    They where all guilty of murder.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭sNarah


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    They where all guilty of murder.

    As are you... *pulls off Dublindude69s mask*

    Old man Jenkins from the store!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭sNarah


    Oh nooooos!
    no-drama.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Anthony James Marston, a good-looking man with a well-proportioned body, crisp hair, tanned face and blue eyes known for his reckless driving. He was born to a wealthy family. Mr. Owen accused Anthony of running over and killing two children, for which Marston felt no remorse.
    Mrs. Ethel Rogers, the cook and Mr. Rogers's wife. She is described as a pale-faced, ghostlike woman with shifty light eyes, who is scared easily. Despite her respectability and efficiency, she was obliged to help her domineering husband, Thomas, to kill their former elderly employer, Miss Jennifer Brady, by withholding her medicine, in order to inherit her money.

    General John Gordon MacArthur, a retired World War I hero, who sent his wife's lover, Arthur Richmond (also a soldier), to his death by assigning him to a "suicide" mission.

    Mr. Thomas Rogers, the butler and Mrs. Rogers's husband. He and his weak-willed wife, whom he dominated, killed their former elderly employer by withholding her medicine, causing the elderly woman to die from heart failure, to inherit the money she had left them in her will

    Emily Caroline Brent, a rigid, repressed elderly woman of harsh moralistic principles who uses the Bible to justify her inability to show compassion or understanding for others. She dismissed her maid, Beatrice Taylor, as punishment for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. As a result Beatrice, who had also been rejected by her own family, threw herself into a river and drowned. Miss Brent felt no guilt and considered that Beatrice's suicide was an even greater sin.

    Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, a retired judge, well known for liberally handing out the death penalty. He is accused of murder due to his summation and jury directions of one accused murderer Edward Seton, although there were some doubts about his guilt at the time of the trial.

    Dr. Edward George Armstrong, a Harley Street surgeon, blamed for the death of Ms. Louisa Clees, a patient, while operating under the influence of alcohol.

    William Henry Blore, a retired police inspector and now a private investigator, is accused of having an innocent man, James Landor, sentenced to lifetime imprisonment as a scapegoat after having been bribed. The man later died in prison.

    Philip Lombard, a soldier of fortune. Literally down to his last square meal, he comes to the island with a loaded revolver. Though he is reputed to be a good man in a tight spot, Lombard is accused of causing the deaths of a native African tribe. It is said that he stole food from the tribe, thus causing their starvation and subsequent death.

    Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a young teacher, secretary, and ex-governess, who takes mostly secretarial jobs since her last job as a governess ended in the death of her charge. She let young Cyril Hamilton swim out to sea and drown so that his uncle, Hugo Hamilton, could inherit his money and marry her; however, the plan backfired, as Hamilton abandoned her when he suspected what she had done.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44,501 ✭✭✭✭Deki


    You people need to get some culture. I tried to be PC, it was orginally Ten little ****.
    Umm... Was Indians here. Even Christie's Book :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    Deki wrote: »
    Umm... Was Indians here. Even Christie's Book :)

    Not in the one I read, refered to them as Soldier Boys and it was Soldier Island.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44,501 ✭✭✭✭Deki


    They change things - don't know why.
    Ten Little Indians

    Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;
    One choked his little self and then there were nine.
    Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
    One overslept himself and then there were eight.
    Eight little Indian boys traveling in Devon;
    One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.
    Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
    One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
    Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
    A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
    Five little Indian boys going in for law,
    One got in Chancery and then there were four.
    Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
    A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
    Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo;
    A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
    Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
    On got frizzled up and then there was one.
    One little Indian boy left all alone;
    He went and hanged himself and then there were none.



  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Dublindude69


    This is the cover for the very first publication of the book

    Christie_1939_ten_little_****_collins_1939.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44,501 ✭✭✭✭Deki


    I know - considering the times... I'd say they changed it here not to offend anyone but they changed some of her other titles too - Sort of made it hard to remember which ones you'd read. There was a time I read them one after the other.:pac:


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