The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #41837   Message #607302
Posted By: PeteBoom
10-Dec-01 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cultural losses
Subject: RE: BS: Cultural losses
Ah. Indeed.

Yet, if the parents are too bloody lazy (or uneducated themselves) to teach their children songs of that ilk, and the schools are not allowed to, then there is nothing to parody, and the "simple childhood fun" loses its point. Part of the fun of parody is knowing the words being sung are not the "right" words...

I am absolutely certain that not ONE of the children on my block or in my neighborhood knows the original song referenced in the first thread. Thus, there is no reason for them to find a parody of it funny - and so pass it on...

But, the female enlightened one would know that full well.

Pete