It's puzzled me for a while - who learned nursery rhymes, and who didn't. I've had too many experiences of casually referring to a nursery rhyme and getting blank looks back (or the virtual equivalent). Today, I had to explain "home again, home again, jiggety jig". My own circumstance was a little unusual - most of the children from my hometown are not likely to have encountered a wide array of nursery rhymes. My mother managed to get whole lot of pretty posters filled with rhymes when I was maybe 4 or 5, and she'd put them all around my bedroom - perhaps they were supposed to help me to learn to read. Wonder if that really helped?!
Abstain for peace (via Karl): There are too many females pushing the testosterone bandwagon. I read an article today by a "chick" who thinks war is the "grown-up" thing to do. She went so far as too chide the protestors as though they are just simple minded youngsters, left-overs from the sixities who are just not "grown up" enough to make a choice for peace, but those who are grown up should know to support the war. Well, sister, even morons grow up.
This wouldn't be the first instance I have heard where someone thinks that protesting is a "dumb thing to do". But if 150,000 people in Montreal thought so, there wouldn't have been 150,000 people showing that they are not happy about the war last Saturday. Nor 200,000 in Melbourne, somewhere around 500,000 in Sydney, nor millions around the world. You can take part in surveys and hope that whoever conducts the survey doesn't manipulate the statistics to say what they want to say, or you can use your physical presence to voice what you believe in.
Posted by sniffles at February 19, 2003 06:58 PM