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To: longnshort who wrote (10248)	11/1/2007 6:55:53 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "I take it you don't know where ring around the rosie comes from" I hesitate to give you the opportunity to drag in sordid tales from your private under-world to regal us all with.... (But, of course I'm familiar with the events of WW II, the 'Rosie the Riveter' stories... as well as having heard a Nursery Rhyme song or two in my time, shorty....)

To: longnshort who wrote (10248)	11/1/2007 11:48:19 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 25737

Ring Around the Rosie was sung by kids during the Bubonic Plague in Europe... According to this interpretation, the first line evokes the round red rash that would break out on the skin of plague victims. The second line's "pocket full of posies" would have been a pocket in the garment of a victim filled with something fragrant, such as flowers that aimed to conceal the smell from the sores and the dying people. Alternatively it referred to the common belief that fresh-smelling flowers, nosegays, and pomanders would purify the air around them thus warding off disease as was believed from the miasma theory of disease. A third possibility includes the idea that "posies" are derived from an Old English word for pus, in which case the pocket would be referring to the swelling sore. Finally: "atishoo, atishoo," the sneezing before "we all fall down," the eventual succumbing to death. GZ