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Thread #77932   Message #1395047
Posted By: Jeri
31-Jan-05 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
Subject: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
I thought this might be fun, and I think we need some nice, healthy insanity. I'm only starting with Ring Around the Rosey because it's a real good example.

Somebody needs to tell those people over in that thread that it's about Ye Olde Blacke Deathe. Don't they know anything? (It sounds more like mumps to me, but hey...)

Anyway, that was pretty good, but we could do better. I figure the rhyme's about folks dancing around a potted flowering plant at a wedding reception. Somebody spilled an ash tray, and everybody went "oopsie."

Then again, maybe there was a prostitute in London in the upteen-hundreds named Rosie...

Anyway, please don't feel like you have to confine yourself to this rhyme.