Being OT on RCTN

Did I say it was you???? Huh??? Huh??? It was someone in NB who whined on about it, that GOW in training lol

Okay Okay - say my name you old GOW - I'm not scared of you displaced Scots. And it WAS annoying - such a computer savvy person as yourself shouldn't have such junk on her screen. The lines are gone now - and my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brother thanks you, my sister-in-law thanks you, my dog thanks you, my my my my .... :-))

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ .......

And the version I know ends with: And beat them 'til they're black and blue!

How did we ever grow up to be normal adults when we had nursery rhymes like *that*?!?!?! LOL!

Joan

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard To get her poor doggie a bone. When she got there, the cupboard was bare So the poor doggie tore her all to pieces.

-- Jere

Two things come to mind, what is normal and are we it ? Also, never mind nursery rhymes, what about all those nursery tales, wicked stepmothers and all that stuff? Kids getting lost in forests ? Wolves in granny's clothing ?

ROTFLMBO! Now *that* would be a great one done in cross-stitch!!!!

Joan

Normal? Who said we're normal?

And, frankly, in light of the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, which were particularly violent and bloody, beating bedbugs is mild.

E.g., in the original Cinderella, not the cleaned up Disney version, when the stepsisters can't get their big feet in Cindy's small shoe, one chops off her heel and the other chops off her toes. As the stepsisters are walking Cindy down the aisle for her marriage to the prince, Cindy's pet doves peck their eyes out.

My sister used to sing:

Go to sleep you little creep Don't you dare make one peep If you do I'll take a shoe And beat you til you're black and blue.

But I never claimed to be a normal adult! LOL!

Elizabeth

Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard To get her poor daughter a dress but when she got there, the cupboard was bare and so was her daughter, I guess.

Elizabeth

Oh I love that -- I'll have to save it!

-- Jere

Did you ever skip rope to -

My mother and your mother were hanging out clothes My mother punched your mother right smack in the nose How many times did she punch her? (then the ropes were twirled really fast till you tripped - that's how many punches she got punched)

We must be all ax murderers to have sung such things. Wink.

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................

YES! there was another one like that too!

Cheryl

I *am* the "Harmless Axe Murderer" in one of the EzBoard XS communities.

We used to choose sides for a game by pointing to each person and chanting:

"Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother 40 whacks And when she was done, She gave her father 41"

Then we would point to each person and say "Out Goes Y.O.U."

It's a wonder we're not even more eccentric than we are.

Lucille

Poor Lizzie Borden - I read a wonderful book about that murder and it is extremely unlikely she murdered them. It was likely the Irish maid who was heavily mistreated and abused by Mrs. Borden, sent out on that hot, scorching day to wash the windows down.

The main case against Lizzie was because she would never say where she was at the time it was done. The verdict was Not Proven which was far more damning than even Guilty would have been. She admitted to another woman later in life that at the time she was in the basement, washing her 'menstrual cloths' and there was no way she would say THAT in front of a court!! She served a sentence for the rest of her life, more than many a convicted murderer.

I tossed up between Lucretia and Lizzie lol

What color was the blood, instead of how many times did she punch her.

Elizabeth

You rarely see girls doing jump rope anymore. I wonder if the PC police outlawed the rhymes? I've been trying to remember any that weren't bloodthirsty.

Cheryl

Now that you mention it, that's correct. Pity because I don't recall girls jumping rope (skipping) had much problem with weight gain. It was a great way to stay trim.

I also loved those repetitive ball games where you bounced the ball against a wall in various sequences until you dropped the ball and had to start again. In many ways I seemed to recognise them in the first of the video games where there were sequences and an error sent you back to the beginning.