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lokie

lokie

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Jeffislovinlife said:
Nope it did not now I wish I could have gotten a picture of it I could have sworn it was a black bird
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Were there more than one? How much Rye was involved?


A copy and paste from The Real Meaning of Nursery Rhymes

ELLIOTT: Next, can you read us "Sing a Song of Sixpence"?

Mr. ROBERTS: `Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Now wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king? The king was in his counting house counting out his money; the queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes when along came a blackbird and it nipped off her nose.'

Now potentially--certainly the first part, is just a description of a meal, about baking, baking birds in a pie and the whistling of the steam when the pie is cooked. The other theory--again, it's relating to Henry VIII...

ELLIOTT: Again?

Mr. ROBERTS: ...more specifically--I know, again. There seems to be a golden age of nursery rhymes in Britain where they--from basically Henry VIII's time, which is 16th century, to the Tudor monarchs to the end of the Stuarts, which is a couple of years later. And it was a time when England was sorting itself out religiously. It was a time of religious wars, it was a time of great divisions in society. We had our own civil war during that period. And a lot of the rhymes seem to come from that time. It seems to be a great flowering for English folk song.

But the theory with the counting house bit is that the maid is Ann Boleyn, who's Henry's second wife, and that the queen is his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. And it's telling the story--the first queen is off in the parlor, kind of out of the action and that the second queen, who Henry divorced and then executed, has her nose snipped off by the blackbirds, which here apparently represent the church.
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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lokie said:
Were there more than one? How much Rye was involved?


A copy and paste from The Real Meaning of Nursery Rhymes

ELLIOTT: Next, can you read us "Sing a Song of Sixpence"?

Mr. ROBERTS: `Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Now wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king? The king was in his counting house counting out his money; the queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes when along came a blackbird and it nipped off her nose.'

Now potentially--certainly the first part, is just a description of a meal, about baking, baking birds in a pie and the whistling of the steam when the pie is cooked. The other theory--again, it's relating to Henry VIII...

ELLIOTT: Again?

Mr. ROBERTS: ...more specifically--I know, again. There seems to be a golden age of nursery rhymes in Britain where they--from basically Henry VIII's time, which is 16th century, to the Tudor monarchs to the end of the Stuarts, which is a couple of years later. And it was a time when England was sorting itself out religiously. It was a time of religious wars, it was a time of great divisions in society. We had our own civil war during that period. And a lot of the rhymes seem to come from that time. It seems to be a great flowering for English folk song.

But the theory with the counting house bit is that the maid is Ann Boleyn, who's Henry's second wife, and that the queen is his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. And it's telling the story--the first queen is off in the parlor, kind of out of the action and that the second queen, who Henry divorced and then executed, has her nose snipped off by the blackbirds, which here apparently represent the church.
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A student of History I see
 
manfredo

manfredo

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Jeffislovinlife said:
Hopefully you all are having a great start to your weekend
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You too....What's going on this weekend Jeff? What did the doctor say? Besides "ice it".

I just cooked a cheeseburger on the grill that was the best burger I've eaten in a year or more! On a fresh potato roll, with cheese of course. Probably because i was famished.

All this work I been doing...And I have been starving myself skipping breakfast and lunch, and eating a smaller dinner...I lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks! Down to 172 from 185 lbs., but I still have a gut! I60 is my old normal weight so maybe another 10 pounds, maybe by fall. Might help my back too.
 
Rsawr

Rsawr

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manfredo said:
You too....What's going on this weekend Jeff? What did the doctor say? Besides "ice it".

I just cooked a cheeseburger on the grill that was the best burger I've eaten in a year or more! On a fresh potato roll, with cheese of course. Probably because i was famished.

All this work I been doing...And I have been starving myself skipping breakfast and lunch, and eating a smaller dinner...I lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks! Down to 172 from 185 lbs., but I still have a gut! I60 is my old normal weight so maybe another 10 pounds, maybe by fall. Might help my back too.
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Hey! congrats! But make sure you're staying hydrated during the day. you'd be surprised how much of our water 'budget' we get from food.
Grilling sounds fun. summer starts in a few days, when's the summer bbq O:
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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manfredo said:
You too....What's going on this weekend Jeff? What did the doctor say? Besides "ice it".

I just cooked a cheeseburger on the grill that was the best burger I've eaten in a year or more! On a fresh potato roll, with cheese of course. Probably because i was famished.

All this work I been doing...And I have been starving myself skipping breakfast and lunch, and eating a smaller dinner...I lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks! Down to 172 from 185 lbs., but I still have a gut! I60 is my old normal weight so maybe another 10 pounds, maybe by fall. Might help my back too.
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O he knows better than that ice run away in Terror
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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manfredo said:
You too....What's going on this weekend Jeff? What did the doctor say? Besides "ice it".

I just cooked a cheeseburger on the grill that was the best burger I've eaten in a year or more! On a fresh potato roll, with cheese of course. Probably because i was famished.

All this work I been doing...And I have been starving myself skipping breakfast and lunch, and eating a smaller dinner...I lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks! Down to 172 from 185 lbs., but I still have a gut! I60 is my old normal weight so maybe another 10 pounds, maybe by fall. Might help my back too.
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16240681804391994578070.jpgand just chillin that's about it
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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manfredo said:
You too....What's going on this weekend Jeff? What did the doctor say? Besides "ice it".

I just cooked a cheeseburger on the grill that was the best burger I've eaten in a year or more! On a fresh potato roll, with cheese of course. Probably because i was famished.

All this work I been doing...And I have been starving myself skipping breakfast and lunch, and eating a smaller dinner...I lost 13 pounds in 3 weeks! Down to 172 from 185 lbs., but I still have a gut! I60 is my old normal weight so maybe another 10 pounds, maybe by fall. Might help my back too.
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Are you taking vitamin supplements or something to keep you going when you're working your ass off mystery slacker
 
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