Tag: nursery rhymes

Storytime with Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken does Where the Wild Things Are, with descriptions of the pictures that are somewhat macabre.

And then the Three Little Pigs…

May 3, 2012

Ride a bike horse to Bandbury Cross

I don’t know where Bandbury Cross is, but you’ll be a fine lady (or gentleman) upon a white horse if you deck out your bike with this gear:

From Design Bloom, designed as part of a Seoul Cycle Design competition.

November 21, 2010

Socialist pigs

From Aaran, in the comments on an earlier post:

In a bid to be politically correct and not scare little children the message has inverted to promote the foolishness that the original was meant to warn against. Now that the first two don’t get eaten it promotes a welfare mentality; you can get away with being lazy because there is always someone you can bludge off when you need.

It made me laugh. Have any other fairy tales or fables been hijacked.

December 7, 2009