[LM_NET] HIT: Mother Goose and cultural literacy

[Ellen Rubin <bookbabe@NJRUBIN.US>]

TARGET:  Find examples of how knowledge of Mother Goose rhymes aids  
understanding of literature, songs, advertising, movies, etc. beyond  
the kindergarten years.  (I'm well aware of how important the rhymes  
are for teaching reading. My focus is on the cultural literacy aspect  
of nursery rhymes just as Shakespeare is important to know at a later  
age.)

Novels by James Patterson
        Kiss the Girls
        Along Came a Spider
        When the Wind Blows
        Cradle and All
        Pop Goes the Weasel
        Jack and Jill
        See How They Run
        Mary, Mary
        London Bridges
        Roses are Red
        Violets are Blue

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In the recent movie Mission Impossible 3, the Tom Cruise character  
scales an incredibly high wall at the Vatican and lies on top of it  
and says, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall."

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Three Blind MIce by Ed McBain

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Agatha Christie collection - title story is Three Blind Mice

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Jack and Jill bathrooms
http://www.goerie.com/todayshome/get_hip_to_hot_bathroom_trends.html

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Old Mother Hubbard Pet Foods
http://www.oldmotherhubbard.com/

Historical advertising uses along with other information
http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/goose/

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MY PERSONAL FAVORITE - an adult joke you can't understand unless you  
know the rhyme:
A doctor shows up every night after work to have a
single drink at the local bar, an almond daquiri.
Dick, the bartender, knows that he'll come in, have
his almond daquiri, and leave, so he ordinarily keeps
a supply of almonds on hand so he can accommodate the
doctor.

One day, however, he's been especially busy, and he
looks up to see the doctor coming in, and lo and
behold, he's totally out of almonds. He does, however,
have a bowl of hickory nuts on hand. So, he whips up a
daquiri, substituting hickory nuts for almonds.

The doctor tastes the drink, furrows his brown and
says, "Is this an almond daquiri, Dick?"
The bartender replies, "No, that's a hickory daquiri,
doc."

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If you come across any examples in the future, please email them to  
me and I'll refresh the hit.

Ellen Rubin, Librarian
Elisabeth Morrow School
Englewood, NJ  07631
erubin@elisabethmorrow.org




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