"There was a crooked man," By Mother Goose There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house. Source: The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes (2000) I drive by this scene every day to work and I just can't help thinking of the quoted nursery rhyme. Someday I expect it will have collapsed.