I can't believe the world I'm living in sometimes. You may remember the Humpty Dumpty's rhyme that goes "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall," etc, etc. And of course he falls off that very wall, breaks, and can't be put back together. Well, the BBC has something to say about that!
From the National Times:
In a revised version of the nursery rhyme that aired recently on the British Broadcasting Corporation's children's channel CBeebies, the tale - which first appeared in print in 1810 - no longer ends with "all the king's horses and all the king's men/Couldn't put Humpty together again". Now, a crack squadron of His Majesty's finest hard-boiled military personnel has found the recipe to "make Humpty happy again".
This stuff is unbelievable. Are you telling me that children are being traumatized by the image of an egg being broken? Political correctness has gone awry; children just can't be children in today's world it seems.
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I've been wondering how lon... (Below threshold)1. Posted by glenn | October 20, 2009 12:13 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
I've been wondering how long this would take. And don't even think about reading Aesops fables. Unless someone is going to prune the grapes so the fox can get some.
1. Posted by glenn | October 20, 2009 12:13 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:13
2. Posted by Hank | October 20, 2009 12:14 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
What's been happening in the UK is tragic beyond words.
Sadly, we seem to be following their lead, albeit at a slower pace.
2. Posted by Hank | October 20, 2009 12:14 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:14
3. Posted by Steve Green | October 20, 2009 12:14 PM | Score: -15 (15 votes cast)
Hate-mongering is so prevalent these days that it won't be surprising to see efforts (even mis-guided efforts) to push back against it.
3. Posted by Steve Green | October 20, 2009 12:14 PM |
Score: -15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:14
4. Posted by Roy | October 20, 2009 12:19 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Actually, they're changing it to say "and Humpty was made happy again, Allah be Praised"
4. Posted by Roy | October 20, 2009 12:19 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:19
5. Posted by MichaelC | October 20, 2009 12:23 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Steve #3,
What in the hell are you trying to say?
5. Posted by MichaelC | October 20, 2009 12:23 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:23
6. Posted by GarandFan | October 20, 2009 12:24 PM | Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Kids get all this coddling in school, then get slammed in the real world...and promptly fall apart.
6. Posted by GarandFan | October 20, 2009 12:24 PM |
Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:24
7. Posted by Oyster | October 20, 2009 12:25 PM | Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Wait til the BBC gets wind of the real story behind "Ring Around the Rosey".
7. Posted by Oyster | October 20, 2009 12:25 PM |
Score: 6 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:25
8. Posted by mag | October 20, 2009 12:38 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Nursery rhymes generally had a moral lesson/story to them. It starts a child at a young age to understand responsbility, goodness, rewards for good behavior, punishment for bad behavior and etc.
Example:
The three little pigs (about being responsbilible and not so carefree when troubles come at you, you are prepare.)
To change words around to have a "feel good" idea is dangerous. You grow up thinking nothing bad will come you way and then boom...something does and you can not handle it.
I find people who been thru some tough times, generally have more character, understanding and compassion than someone who lived in a ivory tower all their so to speak.
I know this is just a child's nursery rhyme, but it shows a scary trend of people in charge trying to dumb down and sissifed our youth. Dummies and Sissies don't fight back. I personally don't think good intentions are behind all this.
8. Posted by mag | October 20, 2009 12:38 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:38
9. Posted by Flu-Bird | October 20, 2009 12:44 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Just how rediculous are they getting in england these days Its this PC poppycock going wild Maybe they should change it to one i heard on LOST IN SPACE HUMPTY DUMTY SAT ON A WALL,HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS ONLY TWO INCHES TALL,HE FELL DOWN AND BROKE HIS SHELL,POOR LITTLE EGG I WISH HIM WELL
9. Posted by Flu-Bird | October 20, 2009 12:44 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:44
10. Posted by Phil | October 20, 2009 12:47 PM | Score: -11 (11 votes cast)
FOX Facing Nearly $30 Million in Indecency Fines
Politcally correct enough?
10. Posted by Phil | October 20, 2009 12:47 PM |
Score: -11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:47
11. Posted by Maddox | October 20, 2009 12:56 PM | Score: 7 (11 votes cast)
Hopefully history will rewrite it to read:
Barack Obama won the great hall.
Barack Obama had a great fall.
All of his press and all of his czars
couldn't put Barack back together again.
Let's pray America isn't permantly broken too.
11. Posted by Maddox | October 20, 2009 12:56 PM |
Score: 7 (11 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:56
12. Posted by 914 | October 20, 2009 12:57 PM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
The thought Nazi's need to be slammed hard!
Europe is so.. FemiMuslinized it's pathetic. Obama and the rest of You "Steve Green" types... Go to hell!
12. Posted by 914 | October 20, 2009 12:57 PM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 12:57
13. Posted by JustRuss | October 20, 2009 1:11 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Yes alah be praised! I always wondered what good a horse would be in that situation anyway what with no hands and all.
At the very least I would expect them to make more of a mess of things...
13. Posted by JustRuss | October 20, 2009 1:11 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 13:11
14. Posted by Dave Lambers | October 20, 2009 1:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That's etc. (et cetera)
14. Posted by Dave Lambers | October 20, 2009 1:26 PM |
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Posted on October 20, 2009 13:26
15. Posted by SteveM | October 20, 2009 2:02 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Phil apparently missed the "satire" tag at the bottom of the post . . .
15. Posted by SteveM | October 20, 2009 2:02 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 14:02
16. Posted by Red Five | October 20, 2009 2:06 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
The really funny thing is that the original Humpty Dumpty was a large cannon. Since the UK wants all guns to vanish, you'd think they'd love a rhyme about a cannon being irreparably broken...
16. Posted by Red Five | October 20, 2009 2:06 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 14:06
17. Posted by Edward Sisson
| October 20, 2009 2:40 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
People are missing the point here -- it isn't just to make a happy ending, it is to tell young children that the government can fix your problems and make you happy. "All the King's horses and all the King's men" can help you when you fall, and they will make you happy.
They are getting rid of the most prominent young-children's story of government failure and turning into the most prominent young-children's story of government success.
You are not going to see the same change with the Big Bad Wolf, etc., because the Three Little Pigs are individuals acting on their own. Now, you might see them add a handsome Prince who rides in to save them from the wolf, but otherwise, no change.
17. Posted by Edward Sisson
| October 20, 2009 2:40 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 14:40
18. Posted by Will Johnston | October 20, 2009 3:02 PM | Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
#11 Maddox:
So you actually want Obama to fail? You don't seem to be saying you think he will. You're hoping that history records his failure? Seems pretty unpatriotic (assuming you're American). I didn't want GWB to fail. I wanted him to be a good president. Shouldn't you want Obama to be a good resident so the nation is a better place?
18. Posted by Will Johnston | October 20, 2009 3:02 PM |
Score: -8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 15:02
19. Posted by _Mike_ | October 20, 2009 3:14 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Will:
'Good' and 'better' are value judgments. 'Good' or 'better' by what standard ?
19. Posted by _Mike_ | October 20, 2009 3:14 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 15:14
20. Posted by Flu-Bird | October 20, 2009 3:22 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Theres a old disney SILLY SYMPHONY called GREEDY HUMPTY DUMPTY He is a king who is greedy for gold he see,s the sun like a hudge gold coin he ignores mother gooses warning about sitting too high he gets all the nursery rhime chartures to build up his wall he fall and gose kersplat
20. Posted by Flu-Bird | October 20, 2009 3:22 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 15:22
21. Posted by Michael | October 20, 2009 4:43 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
I want Obama to fail.
21. Posted by Michael | October 20, 2009 4:43 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 16:43
22. Posted by 914 | October 20, 2009 4:47 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
~Barak Obama sat on wall
Hussein Obaama had a great fall
All the Troll forces and all the un-men
Could not put Alinski together again~
22. Posted by 914 | October 20, 2009 4:47 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 16:47
23. Posted by James Cloninger | October 20, 2009 11:03 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
FOX Facing Nearly $30 Million in Indecency Fines
Politcally correct enough?
An article from PuffHo...yeah, what a shocker there.
23. Posted by James Cloninger | October 20, 2009 11:03 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2009 23:03
24. Posted by 914 | October 21, 2009 1:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
HEY!! It rhymed?
24. Posted by 914 | October 21, 2009 1:13 AM |
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Posted on October 21, 2009 01:13
25. Posted by Mark L | October 21, 2009 9:23 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What's hilarious is that the original Humpty-Dumpty -- the one that inspired the rhyme -- was a cannon.
It was a short-barrelled cannon mounted atop a wall of a besieged Royalist city during the English Civil War. So long as it was up there, it was impossible for the Parlimentarians to advance their siege lines. So they shot away the portion of the wall on which it was mounted, until the wall collapsed and the gun came down.
Yup. You can find the full story in the March/April 2005 issue of Strategy & Tactics magazine, in an article titled "The Savage Truth About Humpty Dumpty"
25. Posted by Mark L | October 21, 2009 9:23 AM |
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Posted on October 21, 2009 09:23
26. Posted by Michael | October 23, 2009 4:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Get a life! If you read all the facts of this beat up the BBC program was simply trying out variations on an old rhyme for the sake of it. No attempt to protect or be PC, and they have used the old version since. The reason the story got such a run is the fear and panic on the part of those who see government interference at every turn. A real enough issue (though we ignore the rule-by-insurance company at our peril) but one that isn't helped by such red herrings.
26. Posted by Michael | October 23, 2009 4:02 PM |
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Posted on October 23, 2009 16:02
27. Posted by Michael | October 23, 2009 4:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
By the way - the Humpty Dumpty as cannon story is false too. Do some basic research.
27. Posted by Michael | October 23, 2009 4:09 PM |
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Posted on October 23, 2009 16:09