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Bunk beds? (Momo can sleep perfectly well sitting up.)

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Where does Pintsize sleep? In a Faraday cage? Duct taped to a wall? In a lead lined box?

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The next dinosaur coffeemaker? Meh, I'm done with dinos.

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Why do you hate money? I'm just tired of dinosaurs.

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Robot bacon zombie coffee nija UGH. Sorry, I'm allergic to internet memes.

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Sneaky Sam: Anomalocaris! (Somebody's been working on their sneaking skills!)

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School's out for the summer. Duh. (We'd have plenty of room for the parts, but...)

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Does your dad know you're here? Yes.

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Faye gives her the look: "I mean, um, I'll call him now."

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Jim? Dora. We seem to have acquired your offspring.

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Sword training! "No, no, you don't have to come get her."

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THWACK! "On second thought, can you come get her AND Faye?"

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"Okay Sam, let's go. You're in big trouble."

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THERE IS NO SAM HERE THERE IS ONLY SKULLMASTER, MASTER OF SKULLS

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Well, you better FIND her, because she's ALREADY grounded for a week and if I don't see her face in the next 3 seconds I'm extending it to a MONTH.

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PUNY MORTAL! YOUR FEEBLE THREATS ARE NOTHING TO SKULLMASTER! (Holy crap, she doubled down!)

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"But I didn't say those things, Skullmaster did!" (Well if it makes you feel better, you're BOTH grounded.)

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Absolute skull power corrupts skulls absolutely.

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Really weird seeing you play with a kid. (I like Sam, she shows great potential for future mayhem.)

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I really hope her punishment includes mandatory showers, because that kid is RIPE.

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Feces and lice and two-week-dead mice, that's what little girls are made of.

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Total Members Voted: 35

[Method of Madness]

Maybe it has do with burning the corpses to slow the plague from spreading?

[Kugai]

Personally, I was thinking more along the lines of Master Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome.

[pwhodges]

this explanation is probably bogus

Not least, the version of the rhyme with those "symptoms" in it was first recorded in 1881 - rather a long way from the supposed inspiration.

A similar rhyme recorded in New Bedford, Massachusetts, about 1790, runs: Ring a ring a rosie / A bottle full of posie / All the girls in our town / Ring for little Josie.  Compare also a Yorkshire rhyme of 1882: Here we go round by ring, by ring / As ladies do in Yorkshire / A curtsey here, a curtsey there / A curtsey to the ground, sir.

The modern version was recorded in 1883 with the line: A-tisha! a-tisha!, and in 1915 with the line: A-sha! A-sha!, which show the development towards "Ashes, Ashes" quite nicely.

A bad taste parody of 1949 runs: Ring-a-ring-o'-geranium / A pocket full of uranium / Hiro, shima / All fall down.

[Redball]

I usually trust Snopes. But here it claims it's unlikely the verse is connected to the plague: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

[Near Lurker]

"Usually... but"?  Everywhere I've ever looked has that rumor as bullshit.

[pwhodges]

One thing that is wrong in that Snopes article is the dating of the first publication of the plague theory to as late as 1961; my reference has it appearing in 1949, and I have a 1951 reference debunking it.

[Barmymoo]

Interesting. While I was writing that explanation I was thinking that I'd heard somewhere it wasn't always considered true; I hadn't realised it was entirely debunked.

[riccostar]

Maybe it has do with burning the corpses to slow the plague from spreading?

there is logic here as well

[Kugai]

Indeed  *Raises eyebrow*

[Is it cold in here?]

Now I'm imagining a Monty Python crossover with "I'm not dead yet!" at the bonfire.

[Pilchard123]

Indeed  *Raises eyebrow*

Vetinari or Teal'c?

[Kugai]

Spock, son of Sarek

[cesariojpn]

I usually trust Snopes.

Snopes has a few articles where they have false info and have never updated despite being told of it. Plus they were accused of having malware a while back.

[Carl-E]

Having malware tacked onto your site by a hacker doesn't automatically discredit the site's content, you know.  One of the universities I worked for had a nasty bit of malware tucked into the online registration system for a few days before it was caught... apparently the work of a disgruntled student who couldn't get the courses they needed.