It doesn’t seem right to go into heavy breathing over this silly phrase. After all, it’s a child’s nursery rhyme:
Wee Willie Winkie
Runs through the town
Upstairs and downstairs
In his nightgown.
The tiresome busybody pokes in where he isn’t invited, telling everybody to lock their doors and put out their lights and go to bed because he thinks it’s time they did.
That isn’t what raises my pulse.
It’s also the title of a Shirley Temple movie, and now we’re coming closer to the point. First, though, I have to say Shirley’s army poem from that film:
Fear God
Honor the Queen
Shoot straight
And keep clean.
Cracks me up, for some reason.
And now we come to the part where my pupils dilate. Wee Willie Winkie also stars Cesar Romero. Children, long before he was Joker on the Adam West campy Batman show, he was … how shall I put this delicately … hot.
‘Nuff said.
WRITING PROMPT: Give a character a crush on an entertainer of a bygone time. What comes of it?
MA
Jane
April 27, 2011 at 9:14amHi. Many moons ago, I was on lunch break, walking down Walnut Street around 4th Avenue, when I looked up and across Walnut, there he was. Cesar Romero was striding through the crowd, a head taller than everyone else and looking like a god among men. Yowzer.
Marian Allen
April 27, 2011 at 9:26amOh, man, Imma steal that memory. When I am an old woman, that is TOTALLY going to have happened to me! lol!
Bish Denham
April 27, 2011 at 11:39amYou’re right, he WAS hot! And I had totally forgotten about that old nursery rhyme.
Marian Allen
April 27, 2011 at 4:21pmOh, man, that smile! Stunning! š
damyanti
April 27, 2011 at 1:10pmNursery rhymes bring back all sorts of memories…thanks for sharing this post.
Marian Allen
April 27, 2011 at 4:22pmDo kids read the old nursery rhymes these days? When they read the Robert Penn Warren title ALL THE KING’S MEN, does it mean anything to them? I wonder.
Angela Felsted
April 27, 2011 at 5:27pmI like Carrie Grant. š But then, who doesn’t?
Marian Allen
April 27, 2011 at 6:33pmIndeed. š