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Little Jack Horner sat in a corner...

ashbury — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:43:42 -0800

The Real Mother Goose, complete with pictures. Revisit your childhood and see how many Mother Goose rhymes you remember, then go through the list to find ones that you don't know. And in the what-were-they-thinking category, check out mothergooserocks.com for wacky tunes (click the music section and play the 3 Little Pigs - go on, I dare you) sung to top 40 tunes.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:51:35 -0800

[This is good.] But what do they mean?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:43:38 -0800

Wonderful, ashbury - thanks! I was astonished to find that I still know almost every verse by heart and, no, rushmc, I still don't know what they mean. I suspect I was much nearer to their significance when I was 5 years old...

By: vito90

vito90 — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:16:18 -0800

I'm wondering if anyone else caught the wonderful "Ms. Goose" references in Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver? The lines about "culinary implements leaping over celestial bodies" made me rethink my relationship with Mother Goose. Thanks for the link ashbury.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:55:13 -0800

vito, I'm currently reading Quicksilver and that's exactly why I went looking for Mother Goose material.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:16:15 -0800

Eh! dites-le, dites-le, De quatre et méfie de le. And if you want them, more N'Heures Souris Rames.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:54:44 -0800

I was searching around a bit for the origins of nursery rhymes and found this hilarious essay: The History of Bo Peep: An Agricultural Employee's Tragedy in contemporary Literary Perspective. An excerpt: "Bo Peep is the Id, beset by its desires for sexual gratification and tormented by the absence of any object. The voice is the voice of the ego, struggling to adjust the demands of the pleasure principle to the constraints of the reality principle. It is building a defence mechanism to cope with the stress of the loss of desire."

By: vito90

vito90 — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:55:35 -0800

ashbury - That's cool! Have you seen the Quicksilver Wiki page? Here... And here is the entry for Mrs. Goose...

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:21:47 -0800

This reminds me of the"Three Little Pigs" by Green Jello, (er, Green Jelly after their dispute with some food manufacturer).

By: ashbury

ashbury — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:44:56 -0800

vito, neat wiki - thanks for that. I like the fact that Neal is directly involved. Christ, that guy's a genius, isn't he?