If you cough while you have dysentery, the cough isn’t the noteworthy event.
“Cough… cough…”
[Shits trousers]
We die like men: Fording the Mississippi in a wagon full of clocks
1883 did a good job of un-romanticizing the Oregon Trail.
This reminded me of the ring around the rosie song, which prompted me to validate the myth that it’s about the plague before I said some nonsense, which has taught me that I’ve been bamboozled.
Is that not true then?
Library of Congress page on it:
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/Okay I’m clicking to go down this rabbit hole. See y’all later.
It’s a fascinating read. You won’t be sorry.
Nothing ever is
It’s not about the plague? Did you find out what it’s really about? What’s it really about?
Apparently it’s a just unsubstantiated and very unlikely given the change of language such as the word fall meaning courtesy and the lack of written discussion about this as an origin before the 19th century.
This states folklore scholars find it baseless which is good enough for me.
Man: Fuck you Terry!
Man dies of dissing Terry!
Ah, but the reason there was no issue with including it in a game for kids is that it has largely been wiped out in the US. So there’s that.
peperony and chease
r.i.p. andy
