I think Joe's telling us he's off his couch --
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Well.... eventually, I suppose but it has nothing to do with dancing in a ring in the late 19th century.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/
Also in light of the 3rd (eating roast beef) and 5th little piggy (going home and squealing all the way), it might be morbidly funny to considered the prosaic meaning of a piggy going to market, but there's no reason to believe it couldn't be the whimsical other meaning.
(I always wondered if we were supposed to assume there were only two piggies: This little piggy went to the market and the other little piggy stayed home; then first piggy had roast beef (which she bought at the market) while the other had none (as he didn't go to the market); the first piggy went wee wee wee all the way home (from the market).... otherwise where was the wee wee weeing little piggy coming home from)
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Dare use my own spells against me, Potter?woozy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:25 amWell.... eventually, I suppose but it has nothing to do with dancing in a ring in the late 19th century.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/
Also in light of the 3rd (eating roast beef) and 5th little piggy (going home and squealing all the way), it might be morbidly funny to considered the prosaic meaning of a piggy going to market, but there's no reason to believe it couldn't be the whimsical other meaning.
(I always wondered if we were supposed to assume there were only two piggies: This little piggy went to the market and the other little piggy stayed home; then first piggy had roast beef (which she bought at the market) while the other had none (as he didn't go to the market); the first piggy went wee wee wee all the way home (from the market).... otherwise where was the wee wee weeing little piggy coming home from)
(I'm a frequent forwarder of Snopes to people promulgating hoaxes or false "facts.")
I sit corrected.
With all that said ... the meta still escapes me.
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I would say you'd be second to last but my solving partner had no idea either... So I think there are a fair number of people who think the piggy's going shopping.KayW wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:30 amI really am SO sorry to be the one to disillusion you. But at the time I found that out, I felt like I was the last person on earth to be let in on that dark “secret”.TeamDoubleTow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:17 pm What?!... I am saddened to have to reconsider this nursery rhyme in light of this new (to me) information.
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I really like this interpretationwoozy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:25 am (I always wondered if we were supposed to assume there were only two piggies: This little piggy went to the market and the other little piggy stayed home; then first piggy had roast beef (which she bought at the market) while the other had none (as he didn't go to the market); the first piggy went wee wee wee all the way home (from the market).... otherwise where was the wee wee weeing little piggy coming home from)
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Wow, did all those people come right from a college graduation to the meatpacking plant? It MUST have been the VERIBEST!
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