Monday, July 21, 2014

WLEM FM

Where the wave function collapses.




Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

eh. I cannot get the video to run on my end. It's my fault. I need some sort of an upgrade.

In the mean time, I read this and as usual P J O'Rourke delights.

rhhardin said...

Youtube has been broken sometimes recently. Reloading the page several times may work.

I suspected it was my ad-block or possibly flash-block but who knows.

Also they seem anxious to tell you why your feed is skipping by blaming it on your internet provider, which means that their site is broken and they know it.

rhhardin said...

Lileks tweeted recently that youtube had added non-skippable ads somehow, which maybe is scrogging things up if you have ad-block.

edutcher said...

My aunt Mary used to recite that when I was very little.

Danke, ma'am, you made me smile.

deborah said...

April, thanks for that article, very good.

Such a sweet nursery rhyme, Ed. I didn't come across it till I had children.

MamaM said...

Such a sweet nursery rhyme, Ed. I didn't come across it till I had children.

And on the other side of the sweet nursery door, Ahab, Fatima of the Seven Veils and Ray Stevens with a memorable falsetto were waiting to ride their cock horse and deliver another version.

The song came out in 1962 and played on popular radio.

MamaM said...

A nursery rhyme was often used to parody the politics and leaders of the day and the humble nursery rhyme was used as a seemingly innocent vehicle to quickly spread scandalous and rebellious messages.

From Secret History of nursery rhymes. Which raises the notion that some things aren't as sweet as they seem or serve a dual purpose.