Three Little Pigs as Ye hay not heard before…

Posted on 21 March 2024 by E.M.Smith

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6 Responses to Three Little Pigs as Ye hay not heard before…

  1. josh from sedona says:
    21 March 2024 at 3:30 am

    ROTFLMAO….

    THNX, I needed that….

  2. beththeserf says:
    21 March 2024 at 11:19 am

    Hee hee hee a reason for preferring comedy over tragedy.

    Jest written on same. https://beththeserf.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/87th-edition-serf-under_ground-journal/

  3. another ian says:
    22 March 2024 at 10:14 am

    Judging from the punch line just as well that started “Once upon a time”

  4. beng135 says:
    23 March 2024 at 1:02 pm

    Try reading Edgar Allen Poe — you’ll need a dictionary.

  5. YMMV says:
    23 March 2024 at 5:47 pm

    I wonder if anybody in that audience had been told that story by their mommies. Maybe they had never heard it before. Or maybe they saw it in an animated cartoon on TV, or now, YouTube.

    The history of that story is interesting, the original versions and all the variations that sprung from those.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Little_Pigs

    And of course stories like that always had a moral. 
    Like this person’s:
    He “interprets the tale as a showcase of the capacity for anticipation and courage in the face of adversity, symbolized by the wolf. According to him, the individual who is content to prepare themself as the first two pigs will be destroyed by the vicissitudes of life, and only a person who builds a solid base can face such hazards. He viewed the tale as a means of telling children that one cannot always act according to the pleasure principle, and must submit to the reality principle when life demands it. He exemplified this point by observing that the first two pigs valued gratification rather than planning and foresight as the third pig had.“

    He has a point, but the story tells it better.

  6. E.M.Smith says:
    24 March 2024 at 3:43 am

    @YMMV:

    Mum had an original version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales… wish I knew where it went… Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the wolf… morals to let you know the world is not nice…

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