Thread: Got time to waste?

I don't remember singing "ashes to ashes" in ring around the rosie.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Wouldn't be surprised if I have worms. Have only ever wormed myself (and the kids) once.

A gullible friend of a friend was told to put a saucer of milk under the bed to deal with worms..I don't need to finsh the tale do I?

Originally Posted by moose

The shortest poem in the world is, "Fleas"


People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops
for a millisecond.

The complete poem, I believe is:

Fleas.
Adam
had 'em.

The other story about "Bless you" is that people believed that because of the violence of the sneeze, the soul briefly left the body and it was necessary to protect the person from Satan during that brief time by saying "Bless you".

I'm sure we could find a couple of other dodgy "facts" in the list if we had time.

I'm fairly sure a couple of them sound dodgy too!

Originally Posted by moose

Not sure about some of these, but you never know.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Ring a ring a rosie
A pocket full of posies
a tishoo a tishoo
We all fall down

The ring of roses was the red rash that was one of the symptoms of the plague. The "tishoo" described the sneezing that was another symptom. The posies were the herbs that people used to try to ward off the plague. Falling down dead was the last symptom.

Never heard of "ashes to ashes" either.

A lot of nursery rhymes had much deeper significance than we realised as children. Some of them were quite savage political satire.