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Rhyming anomalies.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    "Ride a cock horse" just sounds wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭BOHtox


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    BOHtox wrote: »
    I was accentuating it

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭BOHtox


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

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


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BOHtox wrote: »
    I was accentuating it

    Good job. Well done.

    I got you this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭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.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭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:confused:. 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:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭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 ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Was it Ms Muffet or Jack Horner who had the curds and whey?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    When did 'Ba Ba Black sheep' become a 'rainbow sheep'? It makes zero sense now.

    My teacher friend gave out to me when I was teaching my nephew the proper way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Rasheed wrote: »
    When did 'Ba Ba Black sheep' become a 'rainbow sheep'? It makes zero sense now.

    My teacher friend gave out to me when I was teaching my nephew the proper way.

    It presumes black is a bad thing.Sounds a bit racist to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    And don't start about 'eenie, meenie, minee mo...'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    And don't start about 'eenie, meenie, minee mo...'
    Well fair enough, that wasn't on.
    kneemos wrote: »
    It presumes black is a bad thing.Sounds a bit racist to me.

    Racist to sheep??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    I'm starting to get flashbacks of our dad singing to us about smashing someones head in with a silver hammer when I was little...

    ... can't for the life of me remember how it went.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I'm starting to get flashbacks of our dad singing to us about smashing someones head in with a silver hammer when I was little...

    ... can't for the life of me remember how it went.

    Was it when he was drunk?


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm starting to get flashbacks of our dad singing to us about smashing someones head in with a silver hammer when I was little...

    ... can't for the life of me remember how it went.

    It's a Beatles song :D

    Bang bang maxwells silver hammer came down on her head. Bang bang maxwells silver hammer made sure she was dead!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Chloris


    Dads have the best songs.

    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Deedle idle eedle idle eedle idle doh.

    I was reminded of that in Kerry the other day because there's another verse about getting a job digging a whole down in Annascaul and we went to the Tom Crean bar there...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Chloris wrote: »
    Dads have the best songs.

    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work,
    Deedle idle eedle idle eedle idle doh.

    I was reminded of that in Kerry the other day because there's another verse about getting a job digging a whole down in Annascaul and we went to the Tom Crean bar there...

    Is your dad Christy Moore?


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