Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Happily ever after


Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!


In an appropriate sequel to the non-scary "Wild Things," we find that the BBC is revising Mother Goose so that government can remove all the unpleasantness and encourage right thinking:
.... In a revised version of the nursery rhyme that aired recently on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s children's channel CBeebies, the tale – which first appeared in print in 1810 – no longer ends with “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” Now, a crack squadron of His Majesty’s finest hard-boiled military personnel has found the recipe to "make Humpty happy again.” How eggsellent.

Soon, no doubt, we’ll be hearing that the three little pigs have invited the big bad wolf to take a quarter share in their organic farming co-op; that a guilt-riddled Jack has atoned for his giant-killing by establishing a golden-goose-funded orphanage for the oversized; and that Hansel and Gretel have gone into the bakery business with a kindly old lady in the remnant old-growth forest of Tasmania.

And then we can all live happily ever after. .... [more]
Thanks to HolyCoast for the reference.

BBC goes potty over Humpty DumptyBBC goes potty over Humpty Dumpty

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