229 – Let’s Read Inappropriate Nursery Rhymes

About this episode

The episode explores hilariously inappropriate nursery rhymes from the past, highlighting their silly and violent nature by modern standards.

When researching the first published books of nursery rhymes, I found some hilariously inappropriate entries. Well, by modern standards, anyway. Please enjoy these silly, violent, and scatalogical poems. If you share them with your kids, don’t say I didn’t warn you if you find yourself in the principal’s office getting told off. If you’d like to watch the full livestream including listener comments, you can find that here:

People in this episode

Host: T.Q. Townsend

Topics covered

• nursery rhymes
• inappropriate content
• children's literature
• humor
• poetry

Keywords

• nursery rhymes
• inappropriate poetry
• children's books
• humor
• scatological

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