The Epoch Times – These traditional nursery rhymes, such as the Mother Goose collections, have real staying power, both in the human mind and in society writ large. Rhymes remain engraved in the mind and memory, enduring over decades and resurfacing at the end of life, even when many other memories are gone. I’m sure there are scientific reasons for this. But I believe there are also poetic reasons,
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h/t Ann Nonymous Prime
MAGA is Red,
Democrats are Blue.
Enjoy four years
of oh Boo Hoo Hoo!
I’m worried that when I start losing my memory, I will recall the questionable limericks I learned instead of Mother Goose. It will still be educational – just probably not what the parents intended.
Hey Wyatt,
It’s St. Paddy’s day;
There once was a man from Nantucket…
One of the Mad magazine nursery rhymes that I still remember was, If, wishes were horses, if rides were free, if Huntley were Cronkite we’d watch NBC.
There’s always “Your Childhood Ruined” books:
https://www.sadanduseless.com/your-childhood-ruined-parodies/
So many of those nursery rhymes have lost their history.
Eenie, meenie, miney moe…it wasn’t a tiger, but close.
Little kids like the interactive ones like patty cake Baker’s Man and this little pig went to market. I do like Dif Tim’s new one too think two fists rubbing their eyes!
@wonky honky:
With ear hair so long he could tuck it
Behind and around
From his chin to his crown
And he swore that he never would pluck it.
@dee, I agree. The interactive ones are a lot of fun for kids. My daughter (and now her kids) like both of those and the itsy-bitsy spider, too. 🕷️
@geoff — Also from Mad (in the very early days):
Thirty days hath Septumber
April, June, and no wonder
All the rest have peanut butter
Except my grandma who has a little red tricycle
OK, not a nursery rhyme, but sort of in the same file cabinet drawer.
Harry, the Little golden books will never be the same after those ruined childhood books. LMAO, thanks.
Although I thought they were hilarious at the time, I’m afraid I may never know the real fables behind Bullwinkle’s “Aesop & Son” segment, which gave kids a skewed version of the real fable. They were very entertaining!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m schizophrenic
And so am I
There once was a man from Nantucket…
George Carlin did a great take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tkuYVxYFn4&pp=ygUcZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBudXJzZXJ5IHJoeW1lc9IHCQn3AIUdvf8Vzg%3D%3D
Roses are red
Violets are purple
Sugar is sweet
And so’s maple surple
Uncle Al, you’re showing your age as well as mine since I remember that one from when I was a small kid many, many moons ago.
@uncle al,
Thanks for that, I’m going to be polite and not post where my mind goes sometimes!
And then there’s Winken, Blinken and Nod who worked for bidumb.
geoff – Winken, Blinken and Nod worked the Auto-Pen!
Does that mean that the auto-pen is mightier than the sword.
I dunno, but the Auto-Pen is certainty smarter than the Grinning Imbecile!