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Nursery rhymes: RIP?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Could be, and it’s all the fault of us rock-fixated thirtysomething groovers. As this piece from The Guardian suggests, there’s “a whole cast of characters, herded towards the cultural knacker’s yard like the cast of a geriatric Toy Story: Humpty Dumpty, Goosey Goosey Gander, the Grand Old Duke of York, Jack and Jill, a handful of mangy-looking black sheep and poor old Little Miss Muffet, clinging fretfully to her ‘tuffet’.”
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