Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 06:08 AM

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 06:34 AM

I rememeber the days of Mary Whitehouse wanting to ban Chuck Berry's 'My ding-a-ling'. Keith Waterhouse the, then, Daily Mirror columnist suggested banning the carol 'Ding dong merrily on high' as it suggested mutual masterbation while being on drugs:-)

Wonder what else we could come up with?

Hickory dickory dock - Offensive to workers unloading ships?
Ring-a-ring a rosie - Daren't sing that to gardeners!
Little Bo Peep - Boy, was she a dumb blonde...
Jack and Jill - What realy went on between two minors on that hill?

Next!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 08:06 AM

Actually, green sheep are very common.
They just don't show up very well.

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: Flash Company
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 10:58 AM

Yesterday the Daily Mail had 'Rainbow Sheep'. It gets sillier.

FC

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:02 AM

From Stanley Accringtons Sellafield song

"The sheep are glowing in the dark
you can see their ghostly presence
Lighting up the lakeland hills
with an eerie luminescence"

:D(tG)

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: pavane
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 12:26 PM

Well, we know that one..

Jack and Jill went up the hill
There was no-one in the vicinity
Jack came down less half-a-crown
And Jill less her virginity

(For non-UK readers, half-a-crown, also known as half a dollar was a pre-decimalisation coin worth one eighth of a pound.)

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: GUEST,cpt england
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 08:29 PM

i think it is absolute madness that we should change our nursery rhymes that are hundreds of years old,if people dont like our traditions and values why dont they leave OUR country!!!

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 03:49 AM

Off beam there old boy! It is usually the crackpot natives of "our" country who come up with these daft PC ideas.

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 08:22 PM

AN ASIDE:

B. (Ben) A. Botkin, compiler of many books of fokloristic tidbits on various topics was, also, once head of the Archive Of Folk songs at the USA's Library Of Congress in Washington D.C.

I was talking to Bruce U. Utah Phillips back in the 1970s about Botkin and he came out with this clever utterance:

B.A., B.A. Botkin,
Have you any folklore?

Art

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 08:56 PM

well maskin man 'old boy'!!! i never heard anyone complaining like this before about nursery rhymes and a whole bunch of stuff every other week, until the country got over un.
And who do you think is behind most of these ideas??
probably the same people who have taken our freedom of speach away, and will not stop until they have taken our country, while you sit ignorant to it all.

Subject: RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep(new problem)
From: GUEST,Jonathan
Date: 21 Jun 09 - 01:58 PM

As it just so happens...
http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/rainbow-sheep