Results: Let you inner villain shine
1.
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%
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133 votes
Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood
9%
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154 votes
Gingerbread Hag from Hansel and Gretel
6%
•
99 votes
Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk
7%
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122 votes
Stromboli from Pinnochio
2%
•
34 votes
Big Bad Wolf (This dude gets around) from Three little pigs
5%
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97 votes
Goldilocks from Goldilocks and the Three Bears
26%
•
465 votes
N/A
38%
•
666 votes
2.
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%
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68 votes
Georgie Porgie: Georgie Porgie is really a coward, a cad and a glutton.
15%
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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%
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108 votes
Pop Goes the Weasel: actually about struggling to make ends meet.
13%
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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%
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210 votes
Mary Mary Quite Contrary: Given that silver bells, cockleshells and maids are also terms for torture devices of the age.
12%
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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%
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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%
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215 votes
Ladybird Ladybird: This poor little ladybird is really a Catholic in 16th century Protestant England.
4%
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74 votes
N/A
59%
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1039 votes
3.
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%
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439 votes
No
15%
•
264 votes
Undecided
8%
•
148 votes
Not Applicable
52%
•
919 votes
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