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Betty Fasig
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PostSubject: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 1:52 pm

You know how the mind does run on willy-nilly when you are alone. Today, I thought about Miss Muffet's tuffet. I wonder how many people have ever wanted to know what a tuffet was - - or curds and whey.

Little Jack Horner who sat in the corner and ate his Christmas pie. Why did he pull out a plumb? Was it a plumb pie?

Mary who grew the cockle shells and silver bells - -what kind of plants were they? What mysteries!

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Betty
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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 2:21 pm

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Up jumped a spider
And sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

**

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie
He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum
And said, "What a good boy am I!"

**

Mary, Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

**

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

Up Jack got and home did trot
As fast as he could caper
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.

Innocent nursery rhymes, Betty? Here's the explanation for Mary, Mary:

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/mary_mary_quite_contrary.htm


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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 3:29 pm

I've also heard that the Mary was Mary Queen of Scots, and that "cockle" was a way of saying "cuckold" without really saying it.

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Betty Fasig
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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 3:38 pm

Dear Shelagh,
I learned all these nursery rhymes and can still recite them word for word. I wondered today if a book with explainations would be useful. You would have to write it. American children have no idea.

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Betty
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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 3:42 pm

So, Who was Mother Goose, really? Very Happy

I feel betrayed and duped Razz Snort!

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Betty

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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 4:15 pm

Betty,

I wonder if there is any point in me writing anything of an educational nature. The Planemaker books are full of information, but the reading public will not accept the books unless recommended by higher authority. I've just announced that I received a request to submit my books to Literature Wales for consideration for the Wales Book of the Year 2012. Although more than 10,500 free books were downloaded, no real interest has been shown in the sequel.

The really disappointing thing to me is the fact that if I won the award, the book would sell. People would be interested in it and want to buy it because three judges deemed it worthy. Yet, after reading the first book, they are reluctant to pay $2.99 for the sequel. Considering that they would have paid $2.99 for two books (the first one free) with a total word count of 135,000+ words, their reluctance is hard to fathom.
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PostSubject: Re: All Those Nursery Rhymes   All Those Nursery Rhymes EmptyTue Dec 13, 2011 5:44 pm

Some years ago, when Redd Foxx, Rusty Warren, and others were recording comedy records, there was an old black woman comic named Moms Mabley. A friend and I once went to the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville to see her show, and she was one of the funniest people alive. But she was extremely dirty. She recited her own version of a lot of nursery rhymes, which I still can remember word for word. However, I won't post them here, out of respect for the company.

BTW, Gladys Knight opened the show for Moms, and only had one man back up singer. We've always said we saw Gladys Knight and the Pip. Oh, and we were almost the only two white people in the show.

I can assure you her nursery rhymes are much funnier than the ones Shelagh posted, and if you look, you may be able to find some of them online.
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