lets invent some new nursery rhymes
By jb78000
@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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@Wizzywig (7847)
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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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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Jan 10
global warming
6 inches today
will it melt
or is it here to stay
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@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...
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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!'
@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.
@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 ^^
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@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• 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?
@cloudwatcher (6861)
• 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.
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