In Security by Bea R. for July 18, 2017

It’s also very timely. ;)

Aw, the lizard arc is over? Sedine won’t try to dowse Ellie with that lizard spray they use in the desert, too bad, but then again that might have ruined both Ellie’s skin and her friendship with Sedine, so I guess it’s good the arc ended.

You know there has been a lot of research concerning the unusual lyrics of this rhyme. One of the most common explanations is that it’s simply gibberish, or perhaps satirical with the origin unknown. However there maybe some basis in the seemingly irrelevant lyrics, the rhyme originated in the UK circa 1765, “The cat and the fiddle” might be a reference to the Italian “Puss in Boots” which had been translated into English almost 40 years earlier, “The cow jumped over the moon” may concern the 7 years wars which had a front in India among other places, the cow having many stories of feats similar to “jumping the moon” in Hindu mythology, “The little dog laughed” may celebrate the victories of the British army during the war, dog of war laughing at their enemy if you will, and finally “The dish ran away with the spoon” may have been a reference to the death of King George II in 1760, in the afterlife finding his wife again, Caroline of Ansbach, who died over 30 years earlier, and was from the Holy Roman empire, most of whom’s people are considered Germans, the English and Germans are considered to be fundementally different, yet mutually similar as well, much like a dish and a spoon. An unusual nursery rhyme to say the least, but maye quite insightful. Now all of you can tell me how I wrote too much.

Wait until she hears about the old man in a sleigh delivering presents and the rabbit delivering painted eggs.

“Make it so, #1.”

Or it could be about the Man in the Moon getting passed out drunk on excellent brown beer.

He’s talking’ to you, J.K. “plothole” Rowling…He’s talking to you, Easter Bunny….He’s talking to you, Stephen King…He’s talking to you, television…He’s talking to you, Carnival…He’s talking to you, Beatles/Nirvana/etc…He’s talking to you, Warhol…He’s talking to you, Disney(land)…He’s talking to you, Kubrick…etc. ad nauseam….

Try “The Cat in the Hat” next time.

If things make sense, why does he have two kids?

And the Dragoncat Award for Best ‘You Said It!’ goes to NEWPATRIOT778!

I wish I had your condition…

Love Gabby’s expression in Panel Three! “Why you always have to interrupt Story Time? And just when it was getting good!”

It isn’t that you wrote too much, NEWPATRIOT778, it’s that your research was superficial and only gathered in a collection of old wives tales and folk etymology. Check out the branch of literary studies dealing with nursery rhymes. It’s fascinating.

Just as a side note the first two episodes of 1960’s Batman were called:

“Hey diddle-diddle”

“Smack In The Middle”

Love the way Gabby is looking at the picture while dad reads the words. Her expression at the end is priceless!