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Sounds like reasons for just being illiterate or off oneself. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM
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I'm sure that I did not live through the plague. I imagine it was horrible beyond imagination...I like the twist on Old King Cole.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM
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True, CCT. Easier to be glib when you are removed from it.
posted by
adnohr
on November 3, 2012 at 7:24 AM
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Re:
Adnohr They would not be so glib if it happened on their back door step.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 3, 2012 at 1:21 AM
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Re: It seems the nursery rhymes and fairy stories all have
A lot of old miseries around at times Pat, time to kick ass as they say at the mother's meetings.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 3, 2012 at 1:19 AM
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We shall all soon be forgotten A. just blown away so don't fret dear.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 3, 2012 at 1:17 AM
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Re: Plunder asunder the nursery Rhyme
Shh, Kabu they might be after me for breaching copyright.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 3, 2012 at 1:15 AM
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Well I don't go back that far Jay, 
posted by
C_C_T
on November 3, 2012 at 1:13 AM
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The Grimm Brothers were really quite harsh in their original writings.
posted by
UtahJay
on November 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM
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Plunder asunder the nursery Rhyme
the truth at last, tis told this time!
really you are the master.
posted by
Kabu
on November 2, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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yes of course someone came up with a happier version of nursery rhymnes...cant think of the name of it
posted by
Annicita
on November 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM
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It seems the nursery rhymes and fairy stories all have
a cursed beginning. Ashes, ashes, all fall down...
posted by
Pat_B
on November 2, 2012 at 12:13 PM
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We used to play the Ring Around the Roses game, and I can remember hearing later that it was about the Black Death. You're right, CCT - writers can pick something up and go with it; turn terrible tragedies into satire...and make nursery rhymes from desperate situations, or comedies from lost loves.
posted by
adnohr
on November 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM
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