When you hear this phrase you can probably recite many of the succeeding lines. Yoda, Captain Reynolds, and myself did this a few days ago. However, the question was raised as to why there were three men in a tub. After further research we found more lines to the poem. There are many variations. This was our favorite:
Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And how do you think they got there?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick-maker,
They all jumped out of a rotten potato,
'Twas enough to make a man stare.
So, our question is more or less answered: they jumped out of a rotten potato. However, this raises many, many more questions. For instance, where is this rotten potato that is apparently large enough to hold three men? And why is there even one, let alone three, man subjecting himself to a mound of rottenness?
What is going on here?!
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