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Thread #13182   Message #109218
Posted By: crooner
28-Aug-99 - 12:24 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Nursery rhymes :)
Subject: RE: BS: Nursery rhymes :)
This is to McKnees about Knick Knack Paddy Wack. I just used that as an example in my thread about sexual euphemisms in folk music and I should have said nursery rhymes as well. You ask where it comes from; I think it comes from the dirty old man playing with the young girl: one: thumb two:shoe (funky) three: knee four: "door"; well, you get it, he's touching her all over...that's where it comes from, says I...