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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    It pains me to ask these questions.
    Haaa .... The reference to royalty may be oblique.


    If a person of a limited worldview, mindset ... was to be shown something beyond any concept he/she could imagine, they would immediately try to reference it, to reduce it, to make it conform to experiences, events, knowledge that they already are the master of.

    They would explain it to themselves in light of their own experience .... even tho no such comparison or relationship can exist because this is new thing, new event, new reality beyond all previous experience. We ALL do this to a greater or lesser extent, none of us are exempt.

    If you ask a simple baker about politics he may explain it according to the behaviour of dough. A shoe maker may stick to his last. And all thru this, the true, the bigger, the broader reality is totally unseen by their limited mindsets.

    The nursery rhyme shows us this behaviour in a broader light. So that we can see it from 'outside' and not 'inside'. So that we may break free of our own inner limitations.

    The nursery rhyme is four lines long.

    The first and the second line 'rhyme'
    The third and the fourth line 'rhyme'

    29 words in total including repeats.You know it well, and its quite well known, and could be recited by anyone from memory ... I tink.

    (OMG I can't believe I have invented a google proof question ..... HAAAAAHAAAA
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    You are evil. I was out walking and thinking I just don't know enough nursery rhymes and then I see the last post and it seems I must know it. Aaaaaaaargh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutawintji View Post
    Haaa .... The reference to royalty may be oblique.

    snip

    The nursery rhyme shows us this behaviour in a broader light. So that we can see it from 'outside' and not 'inside'. So that we may break free of our own inner limitations.

    The nursery rhyme is four lines long.

    The first and the second line 'rhyme'
    The third and the fourth line 'rhyme'

    29 words in total including repeats.You know it well, and its quite well known, and could be recited by anyone from memory ... I tink.

    (OMG I can't believe I have invented a google proof question ..... HAAAAAHAAAA
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    Greg
    I'm leaning towards some tarts and the Knave of Hearts
    regards from Alberta, Canada

    ian

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    Twinkle twinkle little star

    How I wonder what you are.

    Up above the world so high

    Like a diamond in the sky.


    Damm only 22 words and no royalty
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    Thumbs up

    Thought of that one Ian, but ruled it out early in the piece as it doesn't fit the parameters.

    Also toooooooooooooooooo many words.

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    i don't get the yolk.
    Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- Sun Tzu

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    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
    All the kings horses and all the kings men
    Could not put poor Humpty together again

    1st & 2nd rhym
    3rd & 4th rhym
    King is royalty

    mutter mutter, only 28 words
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by rwbuild View Post
    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
    All the kings horses and all the kings men
    Could not put poor Humpty Dumpty together again

    1st & 2nd rhyme
    3rd & 4th rhyme
    King is royalty

    29 words
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    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

    Cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by rwbuild View Post
    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
    All the kings horses and all the kings men
    Could not put poor Humpty together again

    1st & 2nd rhym
    3rd & 4th rhym
    King is royalty
    so Humpty wasn't made by Faberge

    perhaps
    Georgie Porgy pudding and pie

    Kissed all the girls and made them cry

    When the boys came out to play 

    Georgie Porgie ran away

    (Georgie = The Prince Regent, the future King George IV)
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    so Humpty wasn't made by Faberge

    perhaps
    Georgie Porgy pudding and pie

    Kissed all the girls and made them cry

    When the boys came out to play 

    Georgie Porgie ran away

    (Georgie = The Prince Regent, the future King George IV)
    24 words, not 29
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    Good Grief ..... Looks like I picked a hard one here .... I tort it would have been found by now. Don't know whats happened to Big Shed ...


    Imagine ... You are shown something incomprehensible, beyond your ken, outside all your previous experience. ... then you are asked to describe what you have seen. But all you can do is reply in your own limited experience. You ignore, quite unconsciously, what you have seen, you simply do not take it in, and so you only describe the bits that are familiar, what else can you do ? You are experiencing Cognitive Dissonance.

    1st line is a question: What have you been up to, mate ?
    2nd line is an answer: I have been doing this, going there.
    3rd line is a question: What was the view like ?
    4th line is an answer: Not really any different to here, nuthin out of the ordinary !

    This is a condition all of us experience, sometimes daily.

    If I was to say the first word of the rhyme here, just that one word ... all of you would know it immediately .. haaa

    My next post I will give the rhyme .. sorry for it being so hard ... I truly didn't think it would be unguessable, hard, but not that hard. I was trying to slow Arthur down to a few posts, at least, as he was getting all the others first up.

    cool bananas ... Greg

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    Pussycat pussycat where have you been?
    I've been up to London to visit the queen.
    Pussycat pussycat what did you dare?
    I frightened a little mouse under her chair.


    A fit with 29 words.

    A very metaphorical example Greg!!

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    MERDE !!


    I tort I had you for sure !!!


    Pussycat, Pussycat, where have you been ?
    I've been to London to see the Queen !
    Pussycat, Pussycat, what saw you there ?
    I saw a little mouse run under a chair !

    Exposed to the incomprehensible majesty of royalty, pomp and ceremony (for a pussycat) he failed to see it, and only saw what he was familiar, with, a mouse. He could only comprehend his own narrow minded affairs.

    And from these affairs, we fight wars, we vote and make decisions that affect all of us, and all the time believing that we are rational and in total command of all the facts ... Haaaa

    Don't we all do this everyday in little ways ?

    Very well done Arthur ... bummer !!!!!

    Greg

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    Very nice. I did enjoy that.
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    I had an epiphany as I sorted this out.

    I have a younger brother whose attitude had always been "What do you want to go overseas for? We have
    stuff here that is just as good or better!"

    Now I know what he suffered from!!

    He was cured by a trip to Scotland!!!

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