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Thursday, March 22, 2007: something interesting..

i just learnt in econ history that the ring a ring a posies nursery rhyme is actually quite sadistic if you knew the history of that rhyme.

ring a ring a rosies
a pocketful of posies
achu achu
we all fall down

in the 1300s there was this pandemic bubonic plague thing that occured throughout the world and this event in history was called the Black Death. it was rather disasterous and wiped out heaps of people in Britain resulting in a labour shortage after the Black Death.

one of the symptoms of the plague was red patches on your face and body (hence ring a ring a rosies) and smelly flowers, in that time, was somehow suspected to be the cause of any plague and fragrant flowers were the "cure" to somehow shoo away the smelliness of the smelly flower so people often carried fragrant flowers with them (ie a pocketful of posies).

achu achu was some kind of sneezing sound - one of the symptoms (i think, i cant quite remember) but it symbolised the plague.
we all fall down - ie. everyone dies.

how sadistic right? i bet diann would LOVE it. hahaha.

i'm never teaching my kid this nursery rhyme.

a shout of praise.
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