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ihaveaquestion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 01:35 PM
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2. Ring Around the Rosie
has to do with the plague of the middle ages. I forget all the symbology, but I do remember that "A pocket full of Posies" refers to the habit people had of carrying flowers around, because it was thought that sniffing them would keep the infection away.
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  -Boffin: Nursery rhymes have sexual meanings dArKeR  Mar-05-04 01:04 PM   #0 
  - The Dice Man versions are dirty; I think these are just nursery rhymes...  mmm   Mar-05-04 01:12 PM   #1 
  - Ring Around the Rosie  smjoyner   Mar-05-04 01:35 PM   #2 
  - which is what I heard  muriel_volestrangler   Mar-05-04 02:21 PM   #3 
  - Snopes doesn't buy it  depakote_kid   Mar-05-04 04:14 PM   #5 
     - "Not probative" is right  DrBB   Mar-05-04 10:31 PM   #6 
        - The posies were to ward off the smell of an infected person.  Merlin   Mar-06-04 01:43 AM   #7 
  - They had political implications  kskiska   Mar-05-04 03:47 PM   #4 
 

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