[Opinions] Mabel, Mabel, set the table (m)
Don't forget the
Red!
Hot!
Pepper!
That's a jump-rope rhyme I remember from when I was little. It's much older than me of course.
I don't think of Mabel as a sweet antique. I think of it as such a stereotypical cranky-old-lady name that when I see it in a book, it always has the ring of satire about it.