12-05-2005, 09:13 PM
Occhidiangela,Dec 2 2005, 03:13 PM Wrote:... The next thing you know, we will censor nursery rhymes because the words aren't presented in English, Ebonics and Spanish simultaneously, as instructions for a Poulan chainsaw must be. ...Which is an extremely ironic topic considering some Nursery Rhymes have dark history such as...
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Quote: Goosey, goosey, gander,
Whither shall I wander?
Upstairs, and downstairs,
And in my lady's chamber.
There I met an old man
Who wouldn't say his prayers!
I took him by the left leg
And threw him down the stairs.
Was a lament of religious intolerence of catholics in England during the 16th century. Closet priests would hide away in cubies (priest holes) to say their prayers in latin, rather than recite the English book of (protestant) prayer. Violators and their families were harshly punished.
Here comes that damn pendulum again.