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- DID YOU KNOW...? LONDON BRIDGE
- DOG CONFESSIONS
- GARDEN UPDATE
- FAUNA
- GARDEN GIGGLE
- WHAT IN THE WORLD?
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DOG CONFESSIONS
DID YOU KNOW...?
about the song/child's ditty, London Bridge Is Falling Down?
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about the song/child's ditty, London Bridge Is Falling Down?
How We Know It Today:
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
We suppose it's pretty messed up to write an ode to shoddy civil engineering, but really, how bad could this be?
What It Actually Means:
It's a song about starving children to death.There have been a lot of theories over the years as to what the collapse of the London Bridge in the song means. Some believe that it refers to Viking attacks back in the 11th century. As no documented records of such an attack on the bridge exist, however, we'll instead focus on a different interpretation: immurement. Don't know the term? Well then, here's a new reason to drink in the morning!
Immurement is the practice of entombing someone within a structure, where they slowly die from lack of food and water (not to be confused with being buried alive, where you mercifully just get to suffocate). The tradition is centuries old, based on the belief that such sacrifices would ensure the stability of the structures in which people were imprisoned.
It was thought too awful to be anything but myth, but some documented cases have been recorded: They turned up a slew of bodies within the walls of several old European structures, including castles, churches and, in the case of Bremen, Germany, at least one bridge. In other words, London Bridge is most likely a reference to the sacrifice of a child within the bridge's base to serve as an "eternal watchman."
Still not convinced? There's a game that children often play while singing this little ditty, where two of them join hands to form an arch, and the others take turns running underneath until the end of the song, at which point the hands are lowered and the last child is captured within. That's right: Your kids are out there on the playground right now, practicing ritual sacrifice. GARDEN UPDATE
Simply lovely Indian Summer weather today, mild and breezy. Didn't inch over 85F and a slight breeze wafted all day. I can now water later in the day without being burnt to a crisp.
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
We suppose it's pretty messed up to write an ode to shoddy civil engineering, but really, how bad could this be?
What It Actually Means:
It's a song about starving children to death.There have been a lot of theories over the years as to what the collapse of the London Bridge in the song means. Some believe that it refers to Viking attacks back in the 11th century. As no documented records of such an attack on the bridge exist, however, we'll instead focus on a different interpretation: immurement. Don't know the term? Well then, here's a new reason to drink in the morning!
Immurement is the practice of entombing someone within a structure, where they slowly die from lack of food and water (not to be confused with being buried alive, where you mercifully just get to suffocate). The tradition is centuries old, based on the belief that such sacrifices would ensure the stability of the structures in which people were imprisoned.
It was thought too awful to be anything but myth, but some documented cases have been recorded: They turned up a slew of bodies within the walls of several old European structures, including castles, churches and, in the case of Bremen, Germany, at least one bridge. In other words, London Bridge is most likely a reference to the sacrifice of a child within the bridge's base to serve as an "eternal watchman."
Still not convinced? There's a game that children often play while singing this little ditty, where two of them join hands to form an arch, and the others take turns running underneath until the end of the song, at which point the hands are lowered and the last child is captured within. That's right: Your kids are out there on the playground right now, practicing ritual sacrifice. GARDEN UPDATE
Simply lovely Indian Summer weather today, mild and breezy. Didn't inch over 85F and a slight breeze wafted all day. I can now water later in the day without being burnt to a crisp.
GARDEN GIGGLE
One day two pumpkins, who were best friends, were walking together down the street. They stepped off the curb and a speeding car came around the corner and ran one of them over. The uninjured pumpkin called 911 and helped his injured friend as best he was able. The injured pumpkin was taken to emergency at the hospital and rushed into surgery. After a long and agonizing wait, the doctor finally appeared. He told the uninjured pumpkin, "I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is that your friend is going to pull through." "The bad news is that he's going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life".
FAUNA
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1580 Sir Francis Drake circumvents the globe
1820 Frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
1957 The musical West Side Story premieres on Broadway
1960 First Kennedy-Nixon debate
1969 The Brady Bunch debuts
1991 An experiment starts in Arizona in the Biosphere
2007 Mistrial declared in Phil Spector case
2008 Screen Legend and humanitarian Paul Newman dies
2012 NFL upholds Seahawk's disputed win over Packers
1580 Sir Francis Drake circumvents the globe
1820 Frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
1957 The musical West Side Story premieres on Broadway
1960 First Kennedy-Nixon debate
1969 The Brady Bunch debuts
1991 An experiment starts in Arizona in the Biosphere
2007 Mistrial declared in Phil Spector case
2008 Screen Legend and humanitarian Paul Newman dies
2012 NFL upholds Seahawk's disputed win over Packers
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