Everything's going to be okay, kids - Jack and Jill's parents have been referred to social services!

[sensaes]

Yes, your childhood has been edited by the Beeb:

'...the BBC has triggered amazement by changing the words of Humpty Dumpty on one of its children's programmes to give the accident-prone character a happy ending. A programme on the broadcaster's children's channel CBeebies featured a singalong feature in which, instead of being unable to "put

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[sensaes]

Probably best not to ask exactly how the horses made Humpty happy again.

Let the children find those websites when they're older...

[sensaes]

Actually, I was thinking of Equus.

Sickos.

It's just not canon.

[spyderfyngers]

Of course, if we're going to be purists, Humpty Dumpty is about a cannon.

(Ho ho ho.)

Re: It's just not canon.

[sensaes]

Tut. You're messing up my externalised interior monologue.

But in a good way. ;o)

Re: It's just not canon.

[astartesyriaca]

In my Little Golden Book, he was an egg. I knew it was a metaphor, but I didn't know it was about a cannon!

Re: It's just not canon.

[sensaes]

Indoctrinating children about the glory of the arms industry is part of our heritage.

This is what makes the BBC's revisionist-pacifist nonsense so dangerous...