Questions about anything.

More importantly, did Jill buy him another crown? Or was it one of those Burger King ones that break all the time anyway...?

And did he fall, or did she push him?

Most importantly, was Jack arrested for illegally impersonating a king?

Is there like, a meaning to this nursery rhyme?

Reminds me of when I reflected on "The Farmer in the Dell." I'll find it and link to it here in a minute.

Jack is very clumsy

Although, isn't "crown" really referring to cracking his skull?

Quite a perplexing puzzle of the crown/ caranium!

Here we go: http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/nursery-rhyme-reflections.50913/

And yes, I think it is referring that, but hey, they need to take the hit for not being specific...

Nursery rhymes are dark. I love them

Like nowhere has it ever been stated Humpty Dumpty was an egg...but an egg cracking is a lot less violent than a person going splat

That's true, it could be a person. Just shows how certain ways you look at nursery rhymes, they can be the most violent things...

"There I met an old man who would not say his prayers. I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs." My mother always hated these rhymes...

In a way it reminds me of Shel Silverstein. Some of his stuff really looked like it was aimed at children, even though it was not, and instead more violent. See "You're Always Welcome at Our House" for an example...

Or I'm just a sadist bordering on sociopath

Edit: Stop ziffeling me

I work in a daycare center and some of the 15, 16 year olds that work there part-time were shocked to find out that the Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe did not "kiss (her kids) all soundly and send them to bed"... Yes, some of the things from my/our youth are now considered old-fashioned or (gasp) not "p.c.", but I also know some pretty sheltered teenagers.

*gasps* I ziffeled you? Interesting change...I'm always the one getting ziffeled by everyone else.

LOVE Unca Shel! Check out his "ABZ" for some really twisted stuff!

Question: WHY do humans move into deserts to live in the first place? I mean, who the heck came across the country, stopped in TX or AZ and said, "Hmm...it's dusty, dry, unsupportably hot and nothing grows here...think I'll stay!" HUH?
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Why does Winnie the Pooh need a thinking spot to think?

Why does Steve from Blue's Clues need a thinking chair?

Better yet... if his full name is Winnie the Pooh, why do we call him Pooh for short and not Winnie? Isn't that basically like if we all called Kermit the Frog Frog instead of Kermit?

Pooh is his species, and it just makes sense to go along with how everyone else is named after their species.

On that note, why is Pooh the only one with a real first name? Kanga and Roo don't count