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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:46 pm
FaerWolfe Did you know the lullaby "rock-a-by-baby" is based on a mother killing her newborn and the herself? Post pardm depression, I beelieve I heard it was... sweatdrop Ring-Around-The-Rosey was about like the Plague or something. XP
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:12 pm
DyslexicSquirrel FaerWolfe Did you know the lullaby "rock-a-by-baby" is based on a mother killing her newborn and the herself? Post pardm depression, I beelieve I heard it was... sweatdrop Ring-Around-The-Rosey was about like the Plague or something. XP influenza
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:13 pm
It wasn't influenza, it was the plague. The Black Death, in Medieval times, was spread by coughing, sneezing, and perhaps even breathing on other people. The line 'a pocket full of poseys'? Poseys were a remedy for sneezing and coughing, so people wore them a lot. And then there's the part about calling for a tissue, and then they all fell down - dead. The plague had spread through the sneezing, and so they died.
Rather charming as a modern-day nursery rhyme, huh?
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:58 pm
I can't say that I like the book versions written by The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. They are far too depressing and I can't stand them. The thing I can't understand is that they aren't banned. I mean there are several parents who will put up a fight over stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Where's Waldo (I just had to put this one out there), then let their children read the old fashion fairy tales which are a whole lot worse than a lot of books that have been banned. Does this not make sense to anyone else?
Also for those of you who like the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, there is another movie that is also called that but it is real life and takes place in New York. Its a movie from sometime in the 80's I think.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:45 pm
Little Nightmare I can't say that I like the book versions written by The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. They are far too depressing and I can't stand them. The thing I can't understand is that they aren't banned. I mean there are several parents who will put up a fight over stuff like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Where's Waldo (I just had to put this one out there), then let their children read the old fashion fairy tales which are a whole lot worse than a lot of books that have been banned. Does this not make sense to anyone else? My mom let me watch The Good Son when I was 7, but refused to let me watch The Simpsons until I was like 16. xd
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