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We need new songs.
It is freaky the songs people sing to kids.

How about "rock a bye baby" to put them to sleep?

"When the bough breaks..." What? Who puts a cradle in the top of a tree on a windy day?
"down will come baby, cradle and all..."
Try to sleep after that part of the song.
Terrorize the baby, like that's good idea.

No wonder people are in therapy by the age of 8.

Songs with happy endings, an improvement.

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Who puts an egg on a wall? And if it does break, a bunch of horses are unlikely to be able to fix it. They don't even have thumbs. That's just going to end up with scrambled eggs.
"The ground does not care who you are. It will always be tougher than the human behind the controls."

~ CanuckInUSA

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Think about what we, as a society, consider children stories. David and Goliath. The little guy stands up to the bully, then kills him, cuts his head off, then leads a major battle with many people killed.

Or the traditional nursery rhymes, creepy people living in scary places doing scary things!
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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Or the traditional nursery rhymes, creepy people living in scary places doing scary things!



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Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?



I mean, can we say "over-reaction" ? Cutting off their tails ?
Is that a solution that we want to teach kids?

"I'm upset today... where are my carving knives?"

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Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl -
I guess we all know about Old King Cole...


-- George Carlin
"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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"I'm upset today... where are my carving knives?"



I hope ya left 'em in the pigs brick house 'cause the other two piggies are homeless. . . weee weee weee...all the way.

And why don't the bears lock up the house? Lil' red might have an 'attractive nuisance' case!

Turtle and the Hare?
...Ole shell boy ain't put one in the win column since they started having to cross the 4 lane interstate.

Cinderella?? She called CPS!










~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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"mary mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow. . . with pretty maids all in row"

wqs written about mary queen of scots (I THINK, i know it was some queen named mary) who had a ton of people killed, and buried them, it was making fun of her.

the maids were some guillotine like thing far as i know. . .

"ring around o rosies" is about the ring of roses placed around the necks of dead people killed by the bubonic plague


fun times
Thanatos340(on landing rounds)--
Landing procedure: Hand all the way up, Feet and Knees Together and PLF soon as you get bitch slapped by a planet.

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Ashes
Ashes




We all fall down.



Hmm i recall it as


a tissue
a tissue




We all fall down...

but that was in the 60's:|
You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.

My kids won't need therapy because I sang them fucked up songs, but I'm sure they could come up with many other reasons. :P

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.

My kids won't need therapy because I sang them fucked up songs, but I'm sure they could come up with many other reasons. :P


you keep them away from us at boogies. that is probably good too.
"see those guys? don't talk to them. those are the bad examples."

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We all fall down.



Hmm i recall it as


a tissue
a tissue




We all fall down...



We were always taught it was 'atishoo, atishoo' - as in sneezing - since that was supposedly one of the symptoms of plague.

Interesting how we learned different versions. :)

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.

My kids won't need therapy because I sang them fucked up songs, but I'm sure they could come up with many other reasons. :P\

:DI used the A-B-C song as a lullaby. Nice and innocuous, plus educational. :D

The children's nursery rhymes and tales. Ah, what the heck. I've never seen any kid too scared by Hansel and Gretel, and the nursery rhymes are pretty cryptic. The "all fall down"part simply sent us rolling in the grass, not to the grave.:)

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.



You must not have heard the whole song then.

You Are My Sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away

The other nite, dear,
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms.
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 grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.

I'll always love you
And make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me
To love another
You'll regret it all some day;

You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.

You told me once, dear
You really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me
And love another
You have shattered all my dreams;
Muff #5048

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Hi Moms,

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.



I never sang to either of my kids. I always thought that doing so would put them into therapy for the rest of their lives. :P

On a good day I could not carry a tune in a bucket. [:/]

JerryBaumchen

PS) I sure am sending you a lot today. B|

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At my high school graduation the principal's speech dealt with all the horrific nursery rymes we had, and how we all managed to come out okay (relatively speaking...)...

Never thought of it before....

....I'm sure the current generation is going to blame that for their outcome of life...:P


CReW Skies,
bubbles

"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

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Ashes
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We all fall down.



Hmm i recall it as


a tissue
a tissue




We all fall down...



We were always taught it was 'atishoo, atishoo' - as in sneezing - since that was supposedly one of the symptoms of plague.

Interesting how we learned different versions. :)
yours is the same as mine we just spell better :ph34r: a tissue was in reference to the plague for us too. even though we never had it here :)
You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

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"I'm upset today... where are my carving knives?"



I hope ya left 'em in the pigs brick house 'cause the other two piggies are homeless. . . weee weee weee...all the way.

And why don't the bears lock up the house? Lil' red might have an 'attractive nuisance' case!

Turtle and the Hare?
...Ole shell boy ain't put one in the win column since they started having to cross the 4 lane interstate.

Cinderella?? She called CPS!



...and what about those two little German kids who almost got cooked by the mean ol' woman?
Kids stories are freakin' horrible!


Chuck

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We were always taught it was 'atishoo, atishoo' - as in sneezing - since that was supposedly one of the symptoms of plague.

Interesting how we learned different versions. :)

yours is the same as mine we just spell better :ph34r: a tissue was in reference to the plague for us too. even though we never had it here :)

'atishoo' as in a representation of the sneezing sound, not what you wipe your nose with. :P:)
In any case, according to that page the plague connection is probably a myth, and in fact sneezing isn't associated with (bubonic) plague. Interesting stuff though.

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I always sang "You are my sunshine" to my kids, a much happier song.

My kids won't need therapy because I sang them fucked up songs, but I'm sure they could come up with many other reasons. :P


you keep them away from us at boogies. that is probably good too.
"see those guys? don't talk to them. those are the bad examples."


...and then SHE wields the paddle...now we know how she developed that vicious swing.
My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

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my kids would fall asleep really quick when i sang the theme song to the adams familly..... theyre creepy and theyre kooky and all together spooky. i swear thats true!



Too funny. My boy just hated that song. Just to tease him, I would start it out and he'd always come back with, "Alright, Dad, knock it off."
:D:D


True story:

When the ex was pregnant with him, I regularly hummed a slow Rock-a-Bye Baby to him while lying on her big belly.

After birth, when he got cranky or restless, I hummed it to him and it calmed him right down...every time. It was especially handy at bed time up until he was about 5 or so and then reading to him at bedtime became more effective.

I don't know if it was the security of a parent in bed with him or just my drone that put him to sleep but it always worked.
:D:D
My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

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