Nursery Swine
To market, to market,
To buy a fat pig,
Atishoo, atishoo,
We all fall down.
You may think swine flu jokes are So Last Fortnight, but the pandemic jokes pandemic has only just begun! (And two footnotes to this: Ring a Ring a Rosie, to use the title I grew up with, has different lines in different countries, particularly the “atishoo” line; and the plague interpretation is apocryphal, although for present purposes irresistible.)
12 May 2009