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Hard-Boiled Scrambled Cartoon Egg Salad . . .

August 18, 2023 Chuck Fager 1 Comment

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A Limerick for This Week

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Goodbye, July Cartoons: BarbenHeimer, Twitter-Titters & More — Xtra-Large–On Ice

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Dog Days Diversions — Nursery Rhymes: A Scholarly Sampler

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Washington Post — archive

THE REALITIES (& Speculations) BEHIND THE RHYMES

By Jennifer Howard — June 11, 1997

Humpty Dumpty. Jack Horner. Miss Muffet. You knew them as a child, and if you have youngsters of your own, chances are they know them, too. Mother Goose and her nursery rhymes are old friends. Seems as if they’ve been around forever, and with the tenacity of Golden Oldies, they’ll stick with you for life.

But where, you might wonder, did the fragile Humpty and the arachnophobic Miss Muffet come from?
Like many nursery rhymes, they are centuries old.

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Weekend Cartoons-1

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The critics were (almost) satisfied. . . .

“It was a decent issue. But once again, cats were seriously under-represented. . . .”

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