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.
The brutality depicted in this Mother Goose Rhymes is utterly astounding.
And this is what I am talking about. Read my notes:
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.
He did at least bring her flowers ;)
Posted by: Mike | May 27, 2007 at 04:37 AM
Maybe if he stopped dressing like Ringo Starr then she wouldn't have laughed at him so much.
Who's she winking at?
Posted by: Scott | May 27, 2007 at 01:12 PM
No comment on the flowers he's holding?...or should I say witholding?
Posted by: HDReader | May 30, 2007 at 08:00 AM
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.
Posted by: David McClinton | March 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM