Random musings

[heyzeus]

Why do we sing our ABCs to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?

[Jocephus]

Why do we sing our ABCs to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?

[ghostrunner]

Also "Baa Baa Black Sheep"

[heyzeus]

Also "Baa Baa Black Sheep"

A friend just shared this article with me, answering the question. It's actually a pretty interesting an involved history.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatl ... -tune.html

for example:

Western culture may be resisted in the Arab world, but that’s not stopped the song entering the Arabic musical canon: “Lailiaa, lailiaa ya Nishmeh / keef badi arif wainek / fouk fouk bilaili / mithl loailoai bisamaa.”

I then discovered the first occasion when the melody was exploited as an advertising jingle. Around 1845, a Scottish man called Robert Coltard concocted an aniseed-flavoured sweet called Coulter’s Candy, and promoted it to the Twinkle melody and these lyrics: “Ally bally, ally bally bee, / Sittin' on yer mammy's knee, / Greetin' for a wee bawbee, / Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.”

But Mozart was himself knocking off the melody from a song called Le Faux Pas, whose first line was "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman". Like Coulter’s Candy, it was also used to promote the good things in life: “Ah! I shall tell you, mummy,/ What causes me torment./Daddy wants me to reason/Like a grown-up./ But I say that sweeties / are worth more than reason.”

[Jocephus]

i hate getting the "thanks for you application but you were not selected" canned emails

[TimeForGuinness]

I just figured out that whenever Dock Ellis had to fill out any sort of paperwork with lastname, firstname...it would be written:

Ellis, D

...which sounds like LSD.

[IMADreamer]

I miss Nic. We used to hang out by ourselves a lot. Go to movies, go on photography hunts, just the two of us. We laughed and goofed around it was always fun. My gf now is great in her own way but she always wants to do things with friends as well so it becomes a group thing. I'm not a group thing guy.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I wish my dog could talk. Like, I know he understands me (at least to some degree), and I understand him. But I have no problem saying he's my best friend.

[Fat_Bulldog]

I wish my dog could talk. Like, I know he understands me (at least to some degree), and I understand him. But I have no problem saying he's my best friend.

This x 1000

[Freed Roger]

I wish my dog could talk. Like, I know he understands me (at least to some degree), and I understand him. But I have no problem saying he's my best friend.

This x 1000

Your dogs don't talk?