Re: FN-FORUM OT Monitor burn

date posted 12th September 2002 15:19

whilst we are at it, are all nursery rhymes connected to sober and political
issues of the past?

The grand old duke of york srpings to mind as well as humpty dumpty... can
anyone remember the background to those? oh and I think ring-a-ring-a roses
was pertaining to the plague (black death) where the symptoms was sneezing
before collapse and a pocket full of poseys was the only way yhey had of
covering up some of the smells of rotting fleshan putrified bodies..

If this is the case the black sheep (ie black sheep = bad person?) should
not be changed as the legacy of the story is lost forever..


Please feel free to contibute.

Shaf


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tam Stone" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM OT Monitor burn


> Baa Baa white sheep is quite a common alteration to Baa Baa black sheep
> and has nothing to do with peoples race, its about the fact that there
> are white sheep around aswell as black, and children change the rhyme, I
> know we did sometimes when little but it was about sheep not people.
> Same as the little boy lived down the drain on occations not the lane.
> Its a rhyme about sheep!
>
> As for comparing it to 'nigger' or 'bitch' thats different again. The
> word Irishman isn't a derogitory phrase on its own (or shouldn't be). If
> you live in an area thats uses the experession its unlikely to bother
> you and if you don't well they won't have a clue what it means until you
> explain anyway.
>
> I think people are so court up on the fact everything must be
> politically correct they start reading racism/sexism/agism etc into
> everything.
>
> Tamsin
>
>
>
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