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[Flyby PC]

Seems it might all be a load of rubbish anyway - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_rhyme

 

I'm not convinced though. We take political satire for granted these days, but time was you could get yourself tortured or killed for spreading such innuendos. Just because a poem or rhyme can be traced to an older point of origin doesn't preclude the possibility it was adapted to lampoon a monarch while reducing the likelihood of getting your own head cut off.

 

We can mostly all read nowadays, we're a lot better educated and wise the the world around us. We have TV, radio and newspapers speading modern scandals nation wide. Perhaps we simply don't need nursery rhymes any more. Whenever a new story breaks nowadays, some smartarse has a joke about it on sickipedia in minutes.

 

 

[Wels]

Pound Sterling, comes as i heard from the "Easterlings", folks from abroad of eastern (mostly german and russian) origin, buying and selling anything on the english markets, who on the market in London paid for goods with cast silver bars and coins of a standard quality, which were then also called "easterlings", and later became the abbreviated 'sterling, and "pound sterling", and an accepted general currency.

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Catfish

Edited July 14, 2010 by Wels