# There was an old lady who swallowed a fly... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394 "2002-10-15T20:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/1 "2002-10-15T20:32:10Z")
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly… ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/2 "2002-10-15T20:56:12Z")
I hope she’ll be okay!!! ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/3 "2002-10-15T21:01:48Z")
\ Perhaps she’ll die! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/4 "2002-10-15T21:04:11Z")
Yeah, you ought to call her up if you have her number, just to see if anything bad happened to her. Like maybe she swallowed a spider to catch the fly. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/5 "2002-10-15T21:07:33Z")
what kind of dumbass would swallow a spider to catch a fly? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/6 "2002-10-15T21:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > what kind of dumbass would swallow a spider to catch a fly? Probably the same kind of dumbass who would swallow a fly in the first place. Hell, she’ll probably swallow a bird to catch the spider! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/7 "2002-10-15T22:43:07Z")
then, being a bleeding-heart liberal, she’ll probably swallow a cat to catch the bird… I hope she dies 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/8 "2002-10-15T22:43:41Z")
I hear those spiders wiggle and jiggle and tickle inside one. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/9 "2002-10-15T22:53:38Z")
I swallowed a bee once. I was riding a motorcycle, had on an open face helmet, opened my mouth, bee flew in and hit back of my throat. I was going about 40 mph on a busy road and couldn’t stop so I swallowed. It stung the side of my throat a couple inches down. Other than some swelling from the sting, I had no other side effects. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/10 "2002-10-15T23:04:05Z")
You’re really gonna hear it from PETA, **Shibbs**. Don’t tell anyone, but I heard that she swallowed a dog to catch the cat, and she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, and she swallowed the bird to catch the spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, and she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. And I dare any doper to say “she swallowed a goat” with a straight face. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/11 "2002-10-15T23:10:58Z")
She’d misplaced her glasses and thought it was pie. When it flew out her mouth she started to cry. The nutritional value lost was absolutely sky high. I like pie. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/12 "2002-10-16T00:07:51Z")
I know and old lady who swallowed a Ford, oh my Lord, she swallowed a Ford Perhaps she was board, I know an old lady who swallowed a chair… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/13 "2002-10-16T00:46:02Z")
“There was a young woman who swallowed a lie I don’t know why she swallowed that lie…” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/14 "2002-10-16T02:46:20Z")
There was an old lady who swallowed a MØØse. It was set loose, so she swallowed the MØØse. (A mØØse bit my sister once…) ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/15 "2002-10-16T04:06:27Z")
Speaking of animals wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside of people, how’s Richard Gere these days? ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/16 "2002-10-16T07:32:19Z")
I knew a young woman who swallowed Bill Clinton. [sub]I’m sorry[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/17 "2002-10-16T11:20:26Z")
I know an old lady who swallowed a chair. Oh, despair! She swallowed a chair. How will she fare? I know an old lady who swalloed a sink… ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/18 "2002-10-16T17:02:23Z")
**Dragwyr** , I’m sorry if this is a highjack (this thread doesn’t seem very highjackable) but a screensaver I once downloaded a trial version of used to announce: “A moose bit my sister once,” periodically. Is there some story behind this, or did you just download the same screensaver I did? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/19 "2002-10-16T17:30:32Z")
Alto, rent MP’s Holy Grail and pay particular attention to the opening list of credits. They’re absolute gold. No really, moose bites can be quite nasty! ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394/20 "2002-10-16T19:39:20Z")
Thanks. I will do so. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly/132394.md?page=2)