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PostFri May 01, 2020 1:35 pm 
Yes, I love Lucy....simply the best. Many other sitcoms are good, but Lucy "set the bar". The one with Harpo is classic.

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PostFri May 01, 2020 7:57 pm 
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PostSat May 02, 2020 8:04 am 
Kim Brown wrote:
You guys really know how to uplift and inspire. .....like an underwire bra. huh.gif But right now, I'm turning to I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke reruns, and PG Wodehouse stories. clown.gif
Like a ray of sunshine in a drought stricken land?

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PostSat May 02, 2020 10:57 am 
Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes Ashes We all fall down. Supposed to have connotations with the black plague in Europe. Rosies are a rash or something. Posies in your pocket help mask the smell of the corpses Ashes I think, are from burning the dead. We all fall down--die. This is from memory, it may be wrong. But who would guess that a little kid's rhyme would have such a morbid origination?

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PostSat May 02, 2020 11:08 am 
Fairy tales are all pretty morbid, it wouldn't surprise me a nursery rhyme is too.

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PostSat May 02, 2020 11:53 am 
You got it mostly correct, treeswarper. The "ring around the rosie" part, as I recall, was a euphemistic description of the rash which developed. https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2017/08/real-meaning-behind-ring-around-the-rosie/ can't wait to see little girls skipping rope to a rhyme about Corona Virus. up.gif

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PostSat May 02, 2020 1:20 pm 
Mother Goose is mostly based on Tudor Politics 4 and 20 blackbirds was about when Henry VIII seized the monastery’s when he disestablished the Catholic Church and the deeds were baked in a pie Mary Mary quite contrary was about the imprisonments of Mary Queen of Scots by Elisabeth I Hunpty Dumpty about a disgraced MOP

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