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Thread #26219   Message #315468
Posted By: Carlin
10-Oct-00 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: some interesting Etamology
Subject: RE: BS: some interesting Etamology
Well, there is one I am surprised they missed...

Ring-a-round the rosie, was the village children's chant when the set fire to a witch.

And here is a neat one from America...

On the plantations, when they slaughtered a pig, the field hands got the feet and the hamhocks and the tail....the folks in the big house got the hams and the bacon...thus they were livin' "High on the Hog".