Really? wrote:
Hey guyz. I was just smoking some crack and eating my cat's vomit when it occurred to me...
I think The Terminator franchise might be a reflection of humanity's struggle to remain in control as technology reaches the point where it can replace us...and outthink us.
Am I crazy, or does The Lion King share a lot of similarities with Hamlet?
Wow, you guyz. I think "Ring Around the Rosy" might be about the Black Plague.
I used to sing along to that nursery rhyme when I was a wee one and yes later ... much later I was informed that yes, it was about the Black Plague.
Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
"Ashes, Ashes"
We all fall down
Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies
A Pocket full of Posies
"A-tishoo! A-tishoo!"
We all fall Down!
But then there are doubters as per this
article
The link between the poem and plague is made after World War II and some consider the ties tenuous at best. The lack of evidence is the best evidence against the poem coming from the plague generation. Folklorists have traced the poem to the 18th century, but not before. They argue that if the poem went back 650 years, then there should be a written copy of it dating back to the period, or at least before George Washington’s time. Despite this, documentaries on the subject often recount the nursery rhyme and attribute it to the period.
Whether “Ring Around the Rosie†is about the plague or not, the poem matches the symptoms of the disease. The first three lines recount the disease’s progression. The final line represents death. It is fascinating that a children’s fairy tale may in fact have its origin in the worst pandemic in recorded history.
So that's that then. But I dinnae ken what you were all aboot wit Lion King and Terminator. Bally bampot sorners whit?