That children's song/nursery rhyme you thought was nice...yeah..its NOT!

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  1. knowsbleed

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    As a child, how often did you pay attention to the actual lyrics of a song or nursery rhyme? Most of the time, its just the harmony that children memorize. But as you get older, you start to realize, "Hey...that's a pretty messed up song". So here's a few gems that pretty much changed my perspective on innocence.

    There was an old lady...

    Ring around the "rosies"

    You are my sunshine ...my wife pointed out that its actually a sad song and that when it was originally written, it was not intended to be a children's song.

    Alouette ...cute song...about killing a bird


    feel free to contribute more childhood memory shattering pieces.
     
    #1 knowsbleed, Nov 17, 2007
  2. Captain_BluTac

    Captain_BluTac You Better Run

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    Its Not Just Nursery Rhymes That Old Cartoon Captain Pugwush Was Filthy And The Power Rangers Does Have Slight Racist Undertones
     
    #2 Captain_BluTac, Nov 17, 2007
  3. knowsbleed

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    now my brain hurts.

    No punctuation marks make knowsbleed a sad boy.
     
    #3 knowsbleed, Nov 17, 2007
  4. the_ultimate_evil

    the_ultimate_evil CURSE YOU GIN MONKEY.

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    the pugwush is nothing but an urban legend
     
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  5. tzarinna

    tzarinna Mamochka

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    I think that's why I loved them so much, because they were so dark and disturbing.
     
    #5 tzarinna, Nov 17, 2007
  6. Kritish

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    1. Work on your grammar and punctuation shortcomings.
    2. The stories about Captain Pugwash are just an urban legend.
    3. You think every thing's racist as far as I can tell.
     
    #6 Kritish, Nov 17, 2007
  7. DBella

    DBella Seducente/Mortale

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    You forgot to add Rock-a-bye-baby on your list.

    It's not just nursery rhymes but fairy tales are scary and dark and twisted too. :up:
     
    #7 DBella, Nov 17, 2007
  8. Warhammer

    Warhammer Half Monk, Half Hitman

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    [​IMG]

    :p
     
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  9. BatMatt

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    original fairy tales were very dark and sexual. In the Brother's Grimm "Little Red Riding Hood" he eats the grandma, leaves parts of her around the house for Riding Hood to collect, makes her get naked, get into bed with him, and eats her. There is no hunter that saves them
     
    #9 BatMatt, Nov 17, 2007
  10. Manic

    Manic User title? USER TITLE?!

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    The original Grimm versions of fairy tales were pretty hard core. Like how Cinderella's step-sisters cut off their heels and big toes to try to fit in that (non-glass) shoe.
     
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  11. tzarinna

    tzarinna Mamochka

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    That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread.
     
    #11 tzarinna, Nov 17, 2007
  12. Kelly

    Kelly #RESIST

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    And Cinderella has the step mother killed....:wow:
     
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  13. tzarinna

    tzarinna Mamochka

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    Spoilers dman you! :cmad:











    :p
     
    #13 tzarinna, Nov 17, 2007
  14. Kelly

    Kelly #RESIST

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    ooooops......
     
    #14 Kelly, Nov 17, 2007
  15. Colossal Spoons

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    Humpty Dumpty :(
     
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  16. Manic

    Manic User title? USER TITLE?!

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    If I remember my Snow White correctly, the Prince's kiss didn't wake the girl up; the dwarfs dropped her coffin, effectively performing a Ghetto Heimlich, popping the apple piece out of her throat. Then Snow forced the Queen to to dance at their wedding... in iron shoes recently smithed, and still blisteringly hot.
     
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    :eek::eek::eek:
     
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  18. Abaddon

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    Actually you're thinking of the pre-Grimm version. :ninja:

     
    #18 Abaddon, Nov 17, 2007
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    I think the hunter still saves them, depending on what version of the tale you read. I think it was Perrault (the guy who made LRRH famous before the Grimm brothers) who first came up with the idea of the wolf actually surviving.
     
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  20. Immortalfire

    Immortalfire In the pale moonlight

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    Amen. A sleeping baby falls out of a tree, how charming :whatever: :csad:
     
    #20 Immortalfire, Nov 17, 2007
  21. knowsbleed

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    Does anyone remember:
    The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
    In your belly and out your mouth --
    [var.] The worms play pinochle on your snout?

    joy

    and the rest...I think. I heard it somewhere...

    Did you ever think as the hearse drove by,
    You might be the next to die?
    They'd gather you up in a long white sheet
    And bury you [something] about six feet --
    You'd be all right for a couple of weeks,
    Then the coffin would start to leak
     
    #21 knowsbleed, Nov 17, 2007
  22. Majik1387

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    Yep that's true but you missed the most important part. She had to dance until she died.
     
    #22 Majik1387, Nov 17, 2007
  23. tzarinna

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    Never heard the whole thing but yes.

    I always think to hold my breath when passing a cemetery, I don't what the **** you're suppose to do when you go to a funeral. :csad:
     
    #23 tzarinna, Nov 17, 2007
  24. knowsbleed

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    Ha...I used to be scared to flick off a cemetery for fear of my middle finger falling off.
     
    #24 knowsbleed, Nov 17, 2007
  25. Spider-Man Luvr28

    Spider-Man Luvr28 Amazing.

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    Ooh. :up:
     
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