3 Things You Didn't Know About The Rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey Diddle Diddle (Wikimedia) Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such fun, And the dish ran away with the spoon Wikipedia tells us that the earliest recorded version of this rhyme dates back to 1765, when it was printed in Mother Goose's Melodies. We are also told that its true origins may lie at least a thousand years before that. Now, as good, faithful folk, we all know that anything written thousands of years ago is obviously true, must be taken at face value and is sufficient reason to kill and maim each other. So here are 3 lessons from Hey Diddle Diddle : 1. Pioneering Space Travel Which was the first animal in space? It was the cow that jumped over the moon! And here we had all been led to believe that it was Albert the monkey. This fact, if publicised, might compel NASA to grant a pension to cows living in shelters such as the...