[Paul Atreides]

Imagine the nursery rhymes that could be written about Bubba!

[madison10]

You know, to get all that sexual garbage from nursery rhymes one has to have a sewer level mind.

[squarebarb]

This guy is someone with deep insights who can see into the true meaning of nursury rhymes, when no one else, over all these hundreds of years, has been able to truly understand what nursury rhymes are about.

There should be some kind of phrase for this nonsense but I can't think what. 'Nonsensical extrapolation' maybe.

He could do another book on the sexual innuendoes of the counting rhymes in northern England, such as 'hethera dethera dick...'and enlighten us further. Waiting with abated breath.

[mwyounce]

Ring around the Rosie is not about the plague: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

Cockles are either a weed or a bivalved mollusk.... anyone ever hear the song of Molly Malone who sold Cockles and Mussles?

I think someone has let their imaginantion run wild... Jack and Jill???? The crown is the top of the head... not down there!

Come on, we can say that it means something else, but that doesn't make it so. This reminds me of my high school literature teachers who said that symbolism existed, even if it was not the author's intent... Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Verginius Rufus]

This article doesn't say if the book talks about "Rock-a-bye, Baby." I've heard it is about the Glorious Revolution of 1688/89. The baby is the infant son of King James II, and the wind that blows is a reference to the wind that allowed William of Orange to sail to England.

[NewRomeTacitus]

"He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plumb" must be good for a whole chapter. "Wee Willy Winky" is a tale of biological disappointment.

[LiteKeeper]

Huh?

[RJL]

"The interesting bit is that, having successfully 'lost his crown', it's Jack who runs off rapidly - probably to tell his mates what happened," said Mr Roberts, 37, author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown.

I was taught that Jack fell down and “broke his crown” and Jill came tumbling after.

My parents must have changed the words to protect me at that young age.

[Clemenza]

Andrew Dice Clay knew about this years ago...

"Jack and Jill went up the hill, each with a buck and a quarter, Jill came down with $2.50"