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Old 07-23-2017, 07:15 AM
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Toured a historic house museum last weekend. In the kids' room, around the fireplace, are tiles depicting nursery rhymes.

I though I knew 'em all, but this tile caught my eye and tickled my curiosity nerve. I had never heard of it.

I am posting this to enlighten my fellow nursery rhythmically challenged friends out there.

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Old 07-23-2017, 08:20 AM
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Never seen that one before.
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:34 AM
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Wow that one will have the P I T A loons off there rocker rocker rocker.
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Wow that one will have the P I T A loons off there rocker rocker rocker.
"Pita" is a type of bread.

This is what it looks like:

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Old 07-23-2017, 11:26 AM
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This is what it looks like:

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I liked the poem. Bet it would stir up a stink today.
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As we all know, PITA also stands for Pain In The Ahh.... posterior.

Some might say that description also fits the PETA organization.

Mind you I'M not necessarily saying that - just that SOME people might.
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Old 07-23-2017, 01:02 PM
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PETA???

People Eating Tasty Animals??? I've been a member for years...great bunch.
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Roast duck with pita bread for the drippings is just scrumptious!
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Never seen that one before.
Probably because it's such a poor excuse for a rhyme, it never got a lot of attention. Only four lines actually rhyme. Like the word "mark" is supposed to rhyme with the word "quack"? Seriously? Tucked away on a wall in an old house is the best place for that sort of doggerel. Or maybe on a bathroom wall somewhere.

Hope the guy was better with a gun than he was at making up nursery rhymes.
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If you want, look up the basis for many of the old nursery rhymes. Not pleasant at all. Expect they will all fade away in this PC world.
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I'm totally amazed it took almost six whole hours for this tired, worn out, and overused cliché to make its way into this thread.

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Probably because it's such a poor excuse for a rhyme, it never got a lot of attention. Only four lines actually rhyme. Like the word "mark" is supposed to rhyme with the word "quack"?
When I lived in Boston I'm pretty sure the word "mark" did rhyme with "quack".
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"Mark, mark, mark" is what a toothless dog says.
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Doesn't hold a candle to the drama and satisfying denouement of the classic, "Goosey, Goosey Gander."
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Probably because it's such a poor excuse for a rhyme, it never got a lot of attention. Only four lines actually rhyme. Like the word "mark" is supposed to rhyme with the word "quack"? Seriously? Tucked away on a wall in an old house is the best place for that sort of doggerel. Or maybe on a bathroom wall somewhere.y

Hope the guy was better with a gun than he was at making up nursery rhymes.

Little ones could give a hoot about the quality of a rhyme.
It's the rhythm of the expressive spoken word and the guaranteed poke in the belly or nose six times a verse.
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After reading what I considered to be a horribly written "rhyme", I got curious about who could have come up with such a thing.

I admit, when I found the answer (it wasn't hard), I was completely and totally taken aback. I kept thinking, no, this can't be right. What made it even worse is that I should have known who wrote the thing, or at least recognized the style.

The author was more or less a failed businessman. His efforts at running a sort of general store came to no good due to his habit of extending credit to just about anyone but never trying to collect the money. His newspaper went bust...he apparently wasn't much of an editor.

He seemed to be easily led into schemes wherein he lost money over and over again.

He eventually turned to writing, trying his hand at writing stories and nursery rhymes for children.

He eventually wrote a little book titled Mother Goose in Prose in 1897, and in this book was a story called "The Little Man and His Little Gun", which included the "little man, little gun" rhyme. So that mystery was solved for me, but again, it was hard for me to believe it when I saw the author's name.

The book was a decent success, and he began writing more children's stories. Father Goose was another success. One of his intentions was to bring the European style of storytelling into American literature...he liked the Brothers Grimm style of writing.

Well, long story short, this sort of unassuming man finally hit the mother lode...writing the story that would make him a household name and ensure his fame forever.

His name? You'll probably recognize it. If not, you should.

He was L. Frank Baum, and the story that brought him everlasting fame and fortune, and was used to make one of the most famous films of all time is...The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

So...color me flabbergasted.






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