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Originally Posted by sadie
i've never heard that one, but i read that "ring around the rosies" was about the plague.
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Originally Posted by ScruU2wice
FANREOBPCP has also moved to abolish the rhyme "ring around the rosie" because it is a reference to the Plague which ravaged history in its flowering Dark Ages. We don't have the Plague anymore so this "Rhyme" (I use the term losely) is superfulous. We should not fill our young childrens minds with these unneccesary trivias when we should be pumping them with genetic scienc and articles about how God doesn't exist.
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The poem is all about the boils you get from the plague and how they burned the bodies when they died.
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