18 May 2011

Rant of the Day: Creepy Nursery Rhymes

We've all grown up listening to nursery rhymes. Some of us actually remember all of the lyrics! But we sing creepy nursery rhymes to children, sometimes without realising it.  So here's a list of creepy rhymes.

Creepy Rhyme #1: Rock-a-bye Baby
Lyrics: Rock a bye, Baby
In the treetop,
When the wind blows the
Cradle will rock
When the bow breaks
The cradle will fall
And down will come baby,
Cradle and all
Creepy Factor: Read the lyrics again. First, the baby's in A TREE. So, we start a song off with some neglectful parents. And then the cradle falls from the tree, with the baby. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention this song's about SIDS. Pleasant.

Creepy Rhyme #2: You Are My Sunshine
Lyrics: The other night, dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamt I held you in my arms
But when I awoke dear,
I was mistaken
And I hung my head and cried

You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine,
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my
Sunshine away
Creepy Factor: It sounds like a mother was dreaming she was holding her baby, but when she woke up she was mistaken, and cried. So then the second verse says, "You'll never know dear/how much I love you/Please don't take my sunshine away/".  Another song about SIDS. Why do we sing these to children?

Creepy Nursery Rhyme #3: I Had A Little Bird
Lyrics: I had a little bird
His name was Enza
I opened the window
And In Flew Enza
Creepy Factor: Originally written in 1918 about the Spanish Flu. Take a look at the line, And in flew Enza. Say it out loud. Then again. Now you get it.

Creepy Nursery Rhyme #4: Ring Around the Roses
Lyrics: Ring around the rosies
Pockets full of posies
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down
Creepy Factor: It's about plague. "Ring around the rosies" refer to the round, red rash that was one of the first symptoms of the Black Plague. "Pockets full of posies" refer to how people would place flowers around infected people, or to mask the smell of death. "Ashes, ashes" is a variation of the sound sneezing makes; sneezing was also a symptom of The Plague. "We all fall down" is a reference to the many dead. And we sang this as children.

Creepy Nursery Rhyme #5: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Lyrics: There was an old lady who
Swallowed a fly
I dunno why
She swallowed a fly
Perhaps she'll die...
Creepy Factor: The unnamed lady swallows more and more things to get the things that supposed to get the fly. She dies in the end. A message about suicide, maybe?

Creepy Nursery Rhyme #6: London Bridge Is Falling Down
Lyrics: London Bridge is falling down
falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My fair lady

Take the key and lock her up,
lock her up, lock her up
Take the key and lock her up
My fair lady
Creepy Factor: Oh, noes! It looks like the bridge is falling! I know what we should do: let's take a 9-15 year old child and lock 'em in the bridge for good luck! No, seriously. Back in the day, people would take children and cement them into bridges for good luck because they believed the only way to keep a bridge up is by offering a child as a sacrifice to the gods. Historians say there was once a time where the bricks of London Bridge was bespattered with the blood of little children. Yikes! Historians also say that in the Great Wall of China, they found over 100,000 little childrens bodies buried within. D:

There was a teen who posted some rhymes
She posted the rhymes to send a message
I dunno why she posted the rhymes
They're kinda creepy.

And we sing 'em to children. Pleasant dreams!

Cheese Face out.

10 May 2011

Random Questions: Post 22

Hey, you know what I haven't done in exactly five months? Posted a Random Questions.So Random Questions with your host, Cheese Face!

Random Question 1: Lucy has three apples. Billy has five times as many apples as Lucy. Megan has three times as many apples as Billy. How many apples does Megan have?
Answer: Forty-five.

Random Question 2:  How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Chuck Norris?
Answer: Why would it do something as stupid as chuck Chuck Norris?

Random Question 3: If a cranberry and a pomegranate had a child what would it be called?
Answer: Ask a geneticist.

Random Question 4: What time is it?
Answer: ADVENTURE TIME!

And now, something special. Today is my mom's birthday so....
You are my mummy, and I loves you. Happy birfday!

Cheese Face out.

05 May 2011

Sick-tionary

Hey! I'm sick. With what? I don't know, but I don't have a fever and my throat hurts a bit so I stayed home from school yesterday and today. I always know when I'm sick, aside from feeling like death, if:

  • I don't want to go to school. I am a nerd, without school I die.
  • I just want to sleep.
  • I can't talk. I'll start stuttering. And stuff
  • I start hearing things.
 Since the first two are too boring to ramble on about, I will ramble about the latter two.
When I'm sick I can't talk very well. Notable example today was I was reading Emma's Washington post and I was trying to read the caption aloud to my mom sitting at the table: "...Dalek Sect-- Set--SEC! Dalek SEC!"  or I'll be like " I c- I c- I can't talk!" See, right now, I can't even type without hitting the space bar.

and then I start to hear things. Like on Monday, I thought I heard Mr. S say we could leave, but he didn't so I got in minor trouble for that. I had two possible explanations for that: 1. I was high. Not very likely and very illegal. 2. I'm sick. Very likely and less illegal.

Sickness Sucks. SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR SSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

Cheese Face out.