Home again, home again, jiggety-jig

[maderr]

Does anyone besides me know that nursery rhyme? Probably not. I was as unhealthy obsesssed with nursery rhymes as with fairytales as a kid (hence that ridiculous Queen of Hearts story >_>)

Anyway. Back in Cinci. Vacation was awesome, wish it had been longer. Over the course of December I have acquired mass sparklies and those aside, I love everyone to death. Would list them but I'm sure I would forget one or two so will not do that.

Okay, now to chill a bit. We's be whooped. But for the record, from Cincinnati to Rocky Mount takes about 11 hours.

Also: Who here would be amused by the fact that I helped us pass the hours in the car by reading Jack the Ripper: The Facts aloud? As my siblings enjoyed pointing out, my interest in ol' Jack is something less than healthy. But Sarah had fun listening, so there!

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[stardance.livejournal.com]

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig?

I had a cardboard illustrated version of just about every nursery rhyme in existence as a child :PP

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Yay! ^_^

Hee hee. We had this awesome set of children's encylopedia's growing up - half was like historical stuff, but the other was nothing but fairytales, fables, nursery rhymes and stuff like that. Where I learned almost all the stories I know.

[stardance.livejournal.com]

Yay! Those are the best kind of stories ^_____^. Three or so years ago I got a huuuuuuge book of mythology for Christmas. When I was a kid I used to have pretty hard-cover collections of Hans Christian Andersen and Grimm Brothers fairy tales. For some reason I preferred Hans.

I think my nursery rhyme knowledge is cause my mom liked nursery rhymes and I liked to read :P None of my siblings know half the nursery rhymes I do. Also they had a show on Nickelodeon when I was really young with animated fairy tales. It was one of my favorite shows but now I don't remember what it was called ^^;;;

[minni.livejournal.com]

This little pggy . . . We used to play it on our toes. I know a bunch of stuff, but I always appreciated the "broken" fairy tales. For instance: all the king's men and the king's horses had scrambled eggs for breakfast again. (And Little Boy Blue was off picking flowers with Little Bo Peep.)

[tygati.livejournal.com]

You're silly. ^.^

But you make me want to go hunt down that big book of nursery rhymes that my brother and I had... books... >.> One was green gingham, as I recall... 9.9 Gotta be around here somewhere. Not like we ever throw anything away...

[(Anonymous)]

have you heard of the book Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell? interesting bit of reality to the legend. not sure how much i buy but shes fucking amazing so its a good read.

[thealisonbailey.livejournal.com]

My dad sings the next line as "Home again, home again, you look like a pig." Not sure if that's correct or not. XD

Glad you had a good trip.

I found a program on C-SPAN once upon a time that was an author talking about her latest book on Jack the Ripper. (I think it was the Cornwell book mentioned in the last comment.) And I watched that program the entire three hours it was on. O_O I was tuned in. We all love a good mystery and how great is the mystery of Jack the Ripper?

[indigoraven.livejournal.com]

To market, to market to buy a fat pig... ;->