Nursery rhyme poll: the Grand Old Duke of York's men
Okay, something that's been bugging me for a little while stems from a nursery rhyme I heard as a kid. The nursery rhyme is this one:
The Grand Old Duke of York,
he had 10,000 men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
and then he marched them down again.
When I was a kid I thought this meant that the Grand Old Duke of York was a pretentious git who just liked to show his soldiers off. Now, though, I'm beginning to wonder whether it means that his soldiers were like the SAS and scared the shit out of the enemy so that the moment they appeared at the top of the hill, the enemy turned tail and fled.
So now I want to know what everyone else thinks.
Poll The Grand Old Duke of York's men: pretentious or hardcore
The Grand Old Duke of York,
he had 10,000 men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
and then he marched them down again.
When I was a kid I thought this meant that the Grand Old Duke of York was a pretentious git who just liked to show his soldiers off. Now, though, I'm beginning to wonder whether it means that his soldiers were like the SAS and scared the shit out of the enemy so that the moment they appeared at the top of the hill, the enemy turned tail and fled.
So now I want to know what everyone else thinks.
Poll The Grand Old Duke of York's men: pretentious or hardcore