Let you inner villain shine

1. From the list of nursery rhyme/childhood villains, chose the one you think you are most like, or who you would like to be.

Wicked stepmom or stepsister in Cinderella

8%

133 votes

Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood

9%

154 votes

Gingerbread Hag from Hansel and Gretel

6%

99 votes

Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk

7%

122 votes

Stromboli from Pinnochio

2%

34 votes

Big Bad Wolf (This dude gets around) from Three little pigs

5%

97 votes

Goldilocks from Goldilocks and the Three Bears

26%

465 votes

N/A

38%

666 votes

2. Next are supposedly the true meanings of nursery rhymes. Check off which ones you have heard of (the true meaning, not the nursery rhyme).

Lucy Locket: this rhyme records a spat between two courtesans!?.

4%

68 votes

Georgie Porgie: Georgie Porgie is really a coward, a cad and a glutton.

15%

258 votes

Oranges and Lemons: But not only fruit was unloaded at Eastcheap: it was also the dock at which condemned men would disembark, to begin their final journey.??

6%

108 votes

Pop Goes the Weasel: actually about struggling to make ends meet.

13%

227 votes

Rub A Dub Dub: Rub a dub dub? Three maids in a tub? And how do you think they got there?? The butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker.

12%

210 votes

Mary Mary Quite Contrary: Given that silver bells, cockleshells and maids are also terms for torture devices of the age.

12%

205 votes

Baa Baa Black Sheep: it’s about taxes! Back in the 13th century, King Edward I realized that he could make some decent cash by taxing the sheep farmers.

15%

257 votes

Humpty Dumpty: a generation of kids grew up thinking that Humpty Dumpty was a nonsense rhyme about an egg, rather than a fearsome killing machine.??

12%

215 votes

Ladybird Ladybird: This poor little ladybird is really a Catholic in 16th century Protestant England.

4%

74 votes

N/A

59%

1,039 votes

There are a lot of you that are very well read, educated, and schmart. If this applies and you are also a parent, and knew/know the true meanings of the stories and rhymes, did you still read them and/or expose your children to them?

3. There are a lot of you that are very well read, educated, and schmart. If this applies and you are also a parent, and knew/know the true meanings of the stories and rhymes, did you still read them and/or expose your children to them?

Yes

25%

439 votes

No

15%

264 votes

Undecided

8%

148 votes

Not Applicable

52%

919 votes

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1. From the list of nursery rhyme/childhood villains, chose the one you think you are most like, or who you would like to be.

2. Next are supposedly the true meanings of nursery rhymes. Check off which ones you have heard of (the true meaning, not the nursery rhyme).

3. There are a lot of you that are very well read, educated, and schmart. If this applies and you are also a parent, and knew/know the true meanings of the stories and rhymes, did you still read them and/or expose your children to them?

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