Current Events > Old McDonald went to town a-riding on a pony

(+) Yeah! (+)

All the king's horses and my son John were sure to follow.
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Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni!

Do you ever think what life was like for people in the past? Like can you imagine? Like life now is SO different from hundreds of years ago. Like for real, fucking, 1700s. Can you IMAGINE? Like WHAT THE FUCK

Makes me want to cry
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*sticks feather in hat*
*calls it macaroni*

>1700's logic
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stuck a feather in his mouth and threw up macaroni
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Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" or "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, specifically the Great Plague of London, or the Black Death, but folklorists reject this idea.[2]
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nevershine posted...

Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" or "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, specifically the Great Plague of London, or the Black Death, but folklorists reject this idea.[2]

"We all fall down" makes sense, but you kind of have to reach to make the other parts fit. Given the British crown's association with roses in the 15th century and the "ashes ashes" part, I supposed you could say that it refers to the guy who built a ring of fire around himself during the plague, but there are a lot of problems with that, including that the "guy" was actually the pope instead of the King of England, and accounts vary on exactly what geometric arrangement the fire had, generally not in an actual ring around the Pope. It was probably more likely that simply sealing himself inside his chamber and allowing no admission was responsible for keeping him healthy.

The proposition (both parts--the fire and the isolation) was actually brought forth by a Frenchman, Guy de Chauliac, instead of a Brit. Guy was a physician at the time and one of very few willing to actually study and attempt treatment of it. He was responsible for identifying it as two separate diseases--the boubonic plague and the pneumonic plague.

And I'm getting way off topic so I'll stop there.
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DevsBro posted...

nevershine posted...

Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" or "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, specifically the Great Plague of London, or the Black Death, but folklorists reject this idea.[2]

"We all fall down" makes sense, but you kind of have to reach to make the other parts fit. Given the British crown's association with roses in the 15th century and the "ashes ashes" part, I supposed you could say that it refers to the guy who built a ring of fire around himself during the plague, but there are a lot of problems with that, including that the "guy" was actually the pope instead of the King of England, and accounts vary on exactly what geometric arrangement the fire had, generally not in an actual ring around the Pope. It was probably more likely that simply sealing himself inside his chamber and allowing no admission was responsible for keeping him healthy.

The proposition (both parts--the fire and the isolation) was actually brought forth by a Frenchman, Guy de Chauliac, instead of a Brit. Guy was a physician at the time and one of very few willing to actually study and attempt treatment of it. He was responsible for identifying it as two separate diseases--the boubonic plague and the pneumonic plague.

And I'm getting way off topic so I'll stop there.

Very interesting

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