Making Up Lines

[deird_lj]

Had rehearsals last night.

The scene I'm in is one long party sequence. And yes, I have many lines, but I have even more time standing around in the background murmuring to people in vague having-a-conversation tones.

After a while, you run out of stuff to say to each other. Some people have been just saying what they're saying ("Pretty dress, pretty dress." "Ooh! Admire, admire, show off my dress." "Admire."), which is hilarious to listen to.
And last night my conversation partner and I got sick of that, and started reciting nursery rhymes to each other. There's something extremely entertaining about saying "Incy-wincy spider climbed up the waterspout" in very serious tones, while fluttering a fan and trying to look beautiful...

Comments

[deird1]

You'd have to ask non-Aussies about that - I've never heard it called anything but "incy wincy spider".

(Brits and Yanks on my flist? What do you guys call it?)


On a scale from 1 to 10, what's the temptation to say something really inappropriate in a perfectly normal tone of voice and see how the others react?

Well, it was at about 1 until you said that... *facepalm*

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've always heard it as "itsy-bitsy", but "eency-weency" (probably sounds like what you said) is a possible variation.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Definitely incy-wincy spider.

Incy-wincy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.

Said while making your hand finger-crawl up the other person's arm, leg, chest, etc, of course. :-)