lets invent some new nursery rhymes

@jb78000 (15139)
January 20, 2010 8:30am CST
you probably know that a lot of nursery rhymes were originally about events at the time. now they have become harmless rhymes that help children with language learning. the best know example is that ring a ring of roses was about the black death, and mary mary quite contrary about mary tudor (this is not a nice one). so time for some new ones about very recent history: simple rules - it needs to be in simple language, with lots of rhymes, and look completely innocent in 200 years time. so what event would you choose and what would you create? some rather bad examples [this is not something i am very good at] he was full of curls and twists and little bits but nobody could see what their order could be until dr bursen put on his mitts [mapping of human genome] for lots of oil to take your spoil turn up the heat call in the fleet etc etc [guess]
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@Orea15 (281)
• United States
20 Jan 10
The Dieter's Woes We read every book about diet We buy carts of good food and then try it. But we note with a frown That the scale won't go down So we batter the thing and deep fry it!
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
you deep fried your scales? now that is guaranteed to give you indigestion.
@Orea15 (281)
• United States
20 Jan 10
Yes, the darn thing deserved it for the awful things it was telling me!
@Orea15 (281)
• United States
20 Jan 10
Can you tell my weight loss is not going well? ROFL
@Wizzywig (7847)
20 Jan 10
Switching on my TV set the screen is full of crap reality and make-over and other tacky pap. How to dress and what to eat What shade to paint your walls The programmers have lost their nerve they really have no b@lls "Give us something else to watch!!" Those with brain cells yell Get this dross from off our screens Release us from this hell! Is it a plan by government to stem obesity's tide to get us all to turn sets off and get off our backsides?
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• United States
21 Jan 10
Nice one.
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@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
excellent one wizzy
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@Orea15 (281)
• United States
21 Jan 10
ROFL That makes perfect sense. A conspiracy! Good one.
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Jan 10
global warming 6 inches today will it melt or is it here to stay
@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Jan 10
Not bad for 7 AM and before my brain woke up anyway... PS I stole the 6 inches of global warming thing from EoE...
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
you can come back later with little rhymes on other subjects - unlike me you are good at silly rhymes.
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@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
simple simon met a pieman discussed weather and cost of heather neither was sure what snow was for but kept on going until it stopped snowing people who think climate is simple. not you dawn. nice one.
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
20 Jan 10
Hello, Judith. How about this? Goosey, goosey gander, here comes Peter Mandelson to organise the Jubilee, It's sure to be a catastrophe. The Queen will have his head off when he let's the country down, And when the axe falls, we'll all say, 'Thank you, Gordon Brown!'
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
you win a prize
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
here is your prize...
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
moth - prize moth
...your prize
@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
21 Jan 10
ok here's mine There was once a land called myLot I traveled there once and got caught in conversations with rabbits and lambs and stories of marmalade jams now here I sit my fingers typed to the quick letting some of my chores be damned. That's all I got.
@jb78000 (15139)
21 Jan 10
a nice ode to mylot. also scary - talking rabbits and lambs?
@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
21 Jan 10
not as scary as some would lead you to believe
@tap0991 (2766)
• United States
20 Jan 10
Alrigh Ill give it a shot. There was a time of great change but all of that had gone down the range With a great jolt came Ussain Bolt There was a time of great change but all of that had gone down the range They were chasing osama but then came obama There was a time of great change but all of that had gone down the range then all of a sudden the king of pop had drop and the whole world came to a stop yea little repetitive but it gets some points out there and well most of it rhymed ^^
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
i love the finish. and yes, has all the ingredients to be a future nursey rhyme. maybe nicknames for obama and osama though cos they might go into history
@tap0991 (2766)
• United States
21 Jan 10
hmm ill see if i can think of some. Might be hard for nicknames. As they dont really have nicknames that I can think of atm
@jb78000 (15139)
21 Jan 10
obama has get loads - all very silly, look in the politics section and you'll see. however i suggest just using a couple of common names that rhyme (jill, bill etc)
• United States
21 Jan 10
This is called the "California Mudslide Song". People in California have been told for years that having a home in the Hills can be dangerous, but some people just don't get the hint. The Hills get are always troubled with wildfires and mudslides. As I watch the news, I am always so glad that I do not live in the Hills. I figured the old nursery rhymes were written about the plague and the Tudors, so why can't I write a modern one about my home state California and all of the crazy people who live in it, myself included. The mudslide toppled my home. the mudslide toppled my home. I lived in the Hills of California, and now my home is no more. I didn't have flood insurance. I didn't have flood insurance. Why didn't the appraiser tell me this? I wouldn't have bought the home. I have another house in Malibu. I have another house in Malibu. It's so great I'm in this state. My home is by the beach. The tide is riding high. The tide is riding high. There goes my home by the beach. Why did I live near seaside?
@jb78000 (15139)
21 Jan 10
nice - and a good dig at real estate salesmen.
• Australia
20 Jan 10
Not my cup of tea at all - but maybe it is, since I don't drink tea, so I'll give it a go. Tiger, tiger, clubs and all prowled the dense jungles for girls short or tall. He's the king of the links where he makes no bungles. So that's why he thinks He's the answer to them all. I know - It's not a nursery rhyme. I'll have to get some lessons from Dawn.
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
it is fine. better than mine anyway. theme for today was very silly discussions
@Louc74 (620)
20 Jan 10
I'm not too good at this either, but had to have a wee go. The MPs were caught with their fingers in the pies The boss man said to them "Lie, lie, lie!" Nobody believed a word they would say But they spoke it oft enough, that it all went away
@jb78000 (15139)
20 Jan 10
lovely.