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Anonymous
#1321940
2 months ago
... Well that's marginally less cute...
ED-SKaR
#1321943
2 months ago
Gittonsxv
#1321946
2 months ago
well nearly all nursery rhymes and storys come from dark beginnings so ye, MAYBE!
Yorec
#1321948
2 months ago
I thought the notion that Ring around the Rosie being about the plague was just an urban legend.
ED-SKaR
#1321956
2 months ago
@ Yorec: Ring around the roses, or Ring around Rosie was 100% about the black plague.

Thinking about this some more, it actually kinda makes some sense, except that the explanation does not fit. Ladybirds are not carrion bugs at all. and why say "clap your hooves" if that would just spread the disease further? Why not "Don't clap your hooves"
Of course that could have changed over time...
Jack-o-Lantern
#1321958
2 months ago
Anonymous
#1321970
2 months ago
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp
Smarky_Mcmark
#1322000
2 months ago
>desease
FeralSocks018
#1322031
2 months ago
That could very easily be about any number of other things.
Probably about spring.
Gentle_Coltte_of_Leisure
#1322048
2 months ago
The disease caused oozing and seeping of the pores, meaning that most ponies had to lay in the sunlight to dry their pus-soaked skin.
(Sunshine, sunshine)

The ooze also smelled of rot, attracting insects wherever the ponies went
(Ladybugs awake)

Ponies had to stamp and shake constantly to prevent the bugs from clinging to them so as to prevent their sores from becoming irritated
(clap your hooves and give a little shake)

Also, Twilight and Cadence both crouched in the dance, alluding to the disease weakening of muscles, notably leg muscles, forcing ponies to their knees.
YouCloppinToFoalsBro
#1322054
2 months ago
-_-

How could I guess you'd be all over slathering a thick coating of the grotesque all over this, GC?
Gentle_Coltte_of_Leisure
#1322072
2 months ago
Hey, at least I'm not beating off to it. Yet.
ED-SKaR
#1322137
2 months ago
Hey guys, what's going on in this thre-

*runs away screaming*
AppleJackFrost
#1322143
2 months ago
GCoL the hell.....
CKSM96
#1322357
2 months ago
I approve of all of this.
Jackarunda
#1322858
2 months ago
Dude

you got the lyrics aaaaalll the hell wrong.

Learn your nursery rhymes LOL
Jackarunda
#1322862
2 months ago
Ring around the rosie, pocket full 'o posey,
ashes, ashes,
we all fall down!
ED-SKaR
#1323022
2 months ago
Jackarunda: In England, where the poem originates, it goes:

Ring a Ring a roses
A pocket full of posies
Atishoo atishoo
We all fall down.

Also note the English "ladybird" rather than the Yankish "ladybug"
So yea, OP is English.
ED-SKaR
#1323045
2 months ago
Or possibly Welsh, apparently Scots have a different version.
romantiCaveman
#1323072
2 months ago
I don't usually find grimdark funny.

But when I do, it's written by GCoL.