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Thread #16116   Message #149862
Posted By: Bruce O.
15-Dec-99 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: Help: Political Satire in nursery rhymes
Subject: RE: Help: Political Satire in nursery rhymes
There probably a psychological term for it that I don't know, but it seems that some people require an answer to any question, and don't seem to be able to put up with no answer, so any answer that doesn't do violence to common knowledge will do, even if they have to make it up themselves (and then call themselves very clever to have figured it out).

King Cole was probably a fictional character.