Rhyming anomalies.

kneemos

How come there's so many anomalies in nursery rhymes,for example why did Jack+Jill go up the hill,you don't get water on hills,also spiders can't sit down so what was wrong with Ms Muffet.I forget what Jack Horner was doing in the corner.

Smcgie

So they are easy to remember, no?

Where To

Bo-Peep is not a girl's name.

antodeco

Old mother Hubbard,
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggy a bone.
But when she bent over,
The dog took her over,
And gave her a bone of his own

Kylo Ren

Because they are for kids & kids are stupid.

El Guapo!

How come loads of nursery rhymes have the same sound?
Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle twinkle
The alphabet

And loads more too. They all sound the exact same!

mikemac1

Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece was white and wispy.
Then the poor fella caught foot & mouth
so now its black and crispy.






As for the old women

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;

Welfare sponge, single mother, rabble, rabble :mad:;)

brummytom

Jack and Jill went up the hill
So Jack could lick Jill's fanny
He got a shock and a mouthful of cock
'Cos Jill was a pre-op tranny.

marshbaboon

It's to crush children's beautiful memories when they become adults. It's the same reason we tell them we love them, and that Santey is real.

marshbaboon

Dean09 wrote: »

How come loads of nursery rhymes have the same sound?
Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle twinkle
The alphabet

And loads more too. They all sound the exact same!

They do sound the same, don't they.

woof im a dog

can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees

kneemos

marshbaboon wrote: »

It's to crush children's beautiful memories when they become adults. It's the same reason we tell them we love them, and that Santey is real.

Harsh.

crazy cabbage

kneemos wrote: »

why did Jack+Jill go up the hill

Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic
protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement
of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact
size of which was unspecified.

'One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe
damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure;
subsequently, the second member of the team performed
self-rotational translation, orientated in the same direction taken by the
first team member.

ZzubZzub

The nursery rhyme never said that Humpty Dumpty was egg.

Schwiiing

Dean09 wrote: »

How come loads of nursery rhymes have the same sound?
Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle twinkle
The alphabet

And loads more too. They all sound the exact same!

I could be wrong but I remember hearing it's got something to do singers learning the notes of the major scale in music.

senorwipesalot

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children,
Her uterus fell out.

Chuck Stone

Cleeo wrote: »

The nursery rhyme never said that Humpty Dumpty was egg.

What?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty was a big egg,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty's shell back together again

kneemos

Chuck Stone wrote: »

What?

How would horses help in putting Humpty together again?

marcsignal

kneemos wrote: »

I forget what Jack Horner was doing in the corner.

Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner
Because he had a square arse

This was not the thread to come into drunk.

Pottler

kneemos wrote: »

How would horses help in putting Humpty together again?

Supplying glue?

Blondini

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jill forgot to take the pill and now they have a daughter

(Origin : Finglas circa 1983)

The King of Moo

King Fires Chief of Staff and Master of the Horse for Gross Negligence of Duties

Health and Safety Gone Mad? ENTIRE Royal Staff and horses involved for SEVEN hours in failed attempt to reconstruct smashed egg. Read more...

Your comments:

this is truley bonkers britain! wat if terrorists had attackd the king were wud his staff have been to protect him? fixing a bloody egg! u cudnt make it up this countrys going to hell in a handcart! - Dave lincs, 13.47, 04/08/12.

Blondini

senorwipesalot wrote: »

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children,
Her uterus fell out.

Finglas version was :

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children,
Her g** fell off

paddy kerins

woof im a dog wrote: »

can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees

Damn children on the streets with their knives and forks

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

Read more...

Listen "king", if you even are a king, I'm drunk and on a touchscreen phone, I clicked this about 10 times and thought either my fingers or my phone were broke. You're on my list -.-

phasers

duh doy, the well was at the top of the hill

The King of Moo

Deleted User wrote: »

Listen "king", if you even are a king, I'm drunk and on a touchscreen phone, I clicked this about 10 times and thought either my fingers or my phone were broke. You're on my list -.-

Sorry, I just wanted to make it look a bit more realistic.

I'm still mad about all my horses and men trying to fix a bloody egg, cut me some slack!

Allyall

Why is Georgie, a Porgie?? A puddin', and a pie? If he was, and that freak tried to kiss the girls, Darn Tootin' they would cry.. A big puddin' and pie trying to get off with ya?

Knex*

Ricky has this well covered :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muAcLkXSy4Q

Blondini

Knex. wrote: »

Ricky has this well covered :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muAcLkXSy4Q

The Office - excellent
Extras - very good

Other than those Gervais is a sack..

Cienciano

"Ride a cock horse" just sounds wrong.

Gbear

Dean09 wrote: »

How come loads of nursery rhymes have the same sound?
Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle twinkle
The alphabet

And loads more too. They all sound the exact same!

They all use the same tune of an 18th century french folk song adapted by Mozart called "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman"

It's used in lots of different languages.

Knex*

Blondini wrote: »

The Office - excellent
Extras - very good

Other than those Gervais is a sack..

Couldn't agree less, I think the man is a genius, both in comedy and outside of it.

The King of Moo

POLICE HUNT FOR SERIAL SEX PEST

The search continues for a man who has been terrorising women in the the Lincoln Park area of East London. The sicko, who calls himself "Georgie Porgie," has been responsible for seven attacks in the last week.
SICK
"Georgie" has been known to lurk in dark corners and pounce on innocent women, grabbing them and forcibly kissing them. Eyewitnesses have described confused victims in floods of tears afterwards.
On more than one occasion, the cowardly pervert has fled when men approached the scene of the assault.
PAEDOPHILE
Chief Inspector Brian Wilson has refused to confirm whether these assaults are related to the "Wee Willie Winkie" terror last year, in which an unidentified man regularly ran through the streets at night looking for children.


Video: Eyewitness testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520

Your comments:

wat are the odds that this sicko is an asylum seeker? this is wat happens when u let anyone in the country. close the borders and make britain great again. - Brian, Herts. 16.09, 04/08/12.

al28283

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNDukegnZM

BOHtox

Deleted User wrote: »

Listen "king", if you even are a king, I'm drunk and on a touchscreen phone, I clicked this about 10 times and thought either my fingers or my phone were brokeN. You're on my list -.-

Fyp

The King of Moo

BOHtox wrote: »

Listen "king", if you even are a king, I'm drunk and on a touchscreen phone, I clicked this about 10 times and thought either my fingers or my phone were brokeN. You're on my list -.-]

BOHtox wrote: »

Fyp

Surely if that were true, you would have added a lower-case "n," not a capital.

BOHtox

BOHtox wrote: »

Fyp

Fyp? Sorry what?? What's Fyp?

Oooooh, you mean Fixed Your Post.

Why, thank you, but yes, capital letters do not got at the end of words, just Fyi, I mean, FYI.

BOHtox

The King of Moo wrote: »

Surely if that were true, you would have added a lower-case "n," not a capital.

Deleted User wrote: »

Fyp? Sorry what?? What's Fyp?

Oooooh, you mean Fixed Your Post.

Why, thank you, but yes, capital letters do not got at the end of words, just Fyi, I mean, FYI.

I was accentuating it

The King of Moo

BOHtox wrote: »

I was accentuating it

And being a Grammar Nazi, don't forget that too.

BOHtox

The King of Moo wrote: »

And being a Grammar Nazi, don't forget that too.

That wasn't the reason I put it in capitals, bold, italics and underlined

BOHtox

BOHtox wrote: »

I was accentuating it

Good job. Well done.

I got you this.

castletownman

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I've got a knife
Now get in the van

bnt

I have to wonder: just what was bugging the author of this ditty?

Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree tops,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

The Wikipedia page has theories, but no solid explanation.

hoodwinked

wait i thought Jack and jill went up the hill to fetch the pail of water from the well...


the picture showed a water well on the top of the hill,



why was the well on the hill you ask?



so that when the children fell down the well it was so tall they couldn't get out nor bug the townspeople with their screams!


see it makes sense! :pac:

Ann22

Ah nursery rhymes:) From bygone years,few of you young ones would remember the Ladybird books with obscure rhymes...Little jumping Joan the simple child, jumping up and down all alone and happy as a sandboy.

Skinny little Jack Spratt and his fat wife licking the same platter, two dirty unhygenic divils.

Bobby Shaftoe in his silly, frilly,silky clothes going off to sea and your one thinking he's going to come back and marry her. I seriously doubt he'll survive with all the hairy sailors for months on end with no women about.

And there was somebody else feasting on strawberries, sugar and cream..who was that?...ah yeah, Curly Locks..that's who it was, sitting on a cushion and being a lazy b*stard, not feeding the swine and all, poor pigs, starving away:(.
And any amount of Jacks. Apart from Jack who was Jill's pal there was Jack the one who was being flexible and nimble who enjoyed leaping over candle sticks. Wasn't there also a Jack, who ran down the street with a pig? (Oops...that was Tom Tom the unimaginative child's name chooser piper's son).The aforementioned Jack Horner who was sitting in a corner rooting with a Christmas pie(?)...he pulled out a plum as far as I recall. Imagine that, a plum in a pie, skin, stone and all, yuck.

There was a Dr Foster who went off to Gloucester when it was pissin' rain, he walked into a deep hole full of water and decided then and there that no way was he going there again as if it was Gloucester's fault.Now that one was just stupid:mad:.

chasm

kneemos wrote: »

How would horses help in putting Humpty together again?

Supposedly the original never mentioned horses:
"The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements in 1797, with the lyrics:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Four-score Men and Four-score more,
Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.

A lot of nursery rhymes are meant to be based on events in history, whether that's true or not though i don't know

al28283

chasm wrote: »

Supposedly the original never mentioned horses:
"The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements in 1797, with the lyrics:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Four-score Men and Four-score more,
Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.

A lot of nursery rhymes are meant to be based on events in history, whether that's true or not though i don't know

Wasn't "ring-a-ring-a-rosie" about the bubonic plague?

chasm

al28283 wrote: »

Wasn't "ring-a-ring-a-rosie" about the bubonic plague?

That's what i was taught at school, wiki says otherwise lol

al28283

chasm wrote: »

That's what i was taught at school, wiki says otherwise lol

Most of what I was taught at school turns out to be bull**** so I'd go with wiki in most cases