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May 26, 2007

Peter Peter, the Wife Beater

ADD Symptom: Obsessing over irrelevant matters.

My new bone to pick is with Mother Goose. I don't know what this woman was thinking when she wrote Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater but what I do know is that she is very difficult to track down. Rumor has it that Mama Goose was French. Need I say more.

This particular bedtime rhyme started giving me heart palpitations after I read it tonight.Peter_peter_2


























The brutality depicted in this Mother Goose Rhymes is utterly astounding.

And this is what I am talking about.  Read my notes:

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Homeland security aside, this is a national matter that must be addressed and I know just the attorney to do it:  Cross Exam's Nancy Grace.

I know what you're thinking, "Kali, you are all over the place?  How can you possibly get involved in a law suit right now! Where will you find the time?"  Well, someone has to make an example of this chauvinistic nonsense that is poisoning the young minds of America.


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He did at least bring her flowers ;)

Maybe if he stopped dressing like Ringo Starr then she wouldn't have laughed at him so much.

Who's she winking at?

No comment on the flowers he's holding?...or should I say witholding?

MOTHER GOOSE EXONERATED

The "keep her" reference here relates to a man keeping his wife in a home, when husbands are expected to house and take care of wives. And not "take care of" them in the mafia sense either, or to imprison them.

That is: this is about Peter not being able to build or afford a home to give his wife. In lieu of a house, Peter found a pumpkin to "keep" her. This was the housing he bestowed upon her to make into a home. This usage moreso relates to the term "kept woman" as a mistress kept in a residence of her own - but of course Peter's wife isn't merely "kept" - she's his legitimate wife.

After all, he was a pumpkin eater - luckily he had empty pumpkins lying about, at least one large enough to be usable for just that purpose.

This isn't about false imprisonment.

But in the supposed imprisonment sense, I thought the "he's next" caption, aimed at the bunny was cute and very funny.

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