Off the Wall

[arktos62]

The big news today is that the BBC's children's channel is getting creative with nursery rhymes.  It seems one of their programmes gave the Humpty Dumpty story a happier ending, ensuring that all the king's horses and all the king's men really did put Humpty back together again.

Comments

[cuboz]

Love it! :-)

[nzguy1]

How bloody stupid! (pardon my language). This kind of thing really makes my blood boil. Apart from the historical and cultural value of language and rhymes, just the fact that the powers that be can't just leave things alone. Children for decades have managed to live their lives relatively unscathed, I imagine, from learning nursery rhymes.

Or am I just not politically correct?

I always liked the take on rhymes in Laurie Lee's "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning"....

'Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in an oven'

and

'Baa-baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, I've got plenty'

[inbhirnis]

Wow - this isn't April Fool's, is it? Some wag is altering nursery rhymes? What rubbish.

Love The Independent's take, though!

[blt4success66]

Don't worry, even if Miss Muffet sits on that tuffet, she's still going to find a rolled up newspaper to smack that damned spider flat.

You can't fight human nature. LOL

[pensivegargoyle]

Margery Daw did need the help.

See saw Margery Daw
Sold her bed and lay on straw.
Was she not a dirty slut
To sell her bed and lay in the dirt?

It didn't mean the same thing then, of course.