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Nursery Rhymes for the ’90s

Is it just me, or are the classic nursery rhymes we learned as kids a little behind the times? Here are some traditional rhymes that have been updated to reflect the changing times in which we live. Or to put it another, this is how they might have sounded had the people who wrote been living in the ’90s.

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her.
Put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Until the day she escaped from his trick,
And while he was sleeping, she cut off his prick.

Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
It burned her mouth,
and made her cry out,
And she sued McDonalds the next day.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses
and all the King’s men,
Left him to die; they were Republicans.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jumped over the candlestick.
To the guys in his Frat,
Jack proved he was cool,
His final duty was
to become a drunken fool.

Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub,
Spanking each other with glee.
A passerby said, while scratching his head,
“That’s not allowed here in the Army!”

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
She fed them some soup, without any bread,
And whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed.
She was subsequently convicted
of numerous counts of physical abuse,
“The voices in my head told me to do it!” was her only excuse.
The Judge asked if the charges against her were true,
She replied “It’s not easy living in a goddamn shoe!”

Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
his wife could eat no lean.
So between the two of them,
they licked the platter clean.
After their meal, on their way back,
He died of malnutrition,
she had a heart-attack.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe, he called for his bowl,
And for his pot, his ounces three.

There once was a girl, who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her head.
She had unsafe sex,
with some guy named Rex,
Got AIDS and soon after was dead.

Top Ten Things Overheard On USAir 427 Before Impact

  1. Wanna hear a good joke? There are three guys on a plane, a Black, a Jew, and an Italian…
  2. Shit, we’re out of wiper fluid!
  3. You guys ever see “Fearless” with that Jeff Bridges guy?
  4. Stewardess, another Scotch please.
  5. I thought I’d never get a job after Northwest.
  6. Hey! I called shotgun!
  7. You guys hear about that nut that crashed into the White House?
  8. Roger, Over.
  9. Let the kid fly, Jack.
  10. Ooh, a little lower… yeah.

Top Five Uses for L & S Degree

  1. Go on to a stimulating career in management consulting.
  2. Write IOUs on it.
  3. Use as a small blanket for those chilly winter nights on the
    streets.
  4. Use as toilet paper on days Daily Cal isn’t printed.
  5. Use reverse side to make “Will Work for Food” sign.

Top Ten Things Daily Cal Reporters do the Other 5 days

  1. Come up with flattering ways to describe most recent Cal football loss.
  2. Invent goofy personals ads.
  3. Laugh about Josh’s hair.
  4. Try to find humor in NO EXIT cartoon.
  5. Go back to their regular jobs at “Hooked on Phonics”.
  6. Practice showing their ID to get into Eshleman Hall.
  7. Masturbate.
  8. Send top investigative reporters to cover breaking events at Berkeley High.
  9. Stuff Discover Card inserts into 100,000 newspapers.
  10. Participate in sacrificial rites sponsored by Students for the Truth

Top Ten Star Trek Spinoffs

  1. Star Trek: Into the Unemployment Office
  2. Bones McCoy, M.D.
  3. Jordie’s Tool-Time
  4. Datahue
  5. Kirk and Picard at the movies
  6. Klingon Kiddie Corner
  7. Farengi Shopping Network
  8. Romulan Rap Session
  9. Deanna Troi’s Psychic Friends Network
  10. Deep Six-9

Top Ten Reasons to Stay in the Dorms Another Year

  1. “Chunk”
  2. Lounge couch has sentimental value.
  3. They say this year’s Freshman crop is the best since ’86.
  4. Can never outgrow cheap thrills in co-ed bathroom.
  5. Now your choice of Drug or Drug-free.
  6. They’re earthquake safe.
  7. You’re from Bosnia and Unit II reminds you of home.
  8. This year you can throw stuff from the 8<sup>th</sup> floor.
  9. Didn’t quite complete your set of dishware.
  10. Already built up immunity to DC food.

Top Ten Reasons to Get Really Fat

  1. Get your money’s worth at Sizzler.
  2. Get paid $30 to lose the weight (and eat anything you want!).
  3. 2 seats for the price of one.
  4. Free lifetime PriceClub membership.
  5. Good excuse for small looking penis.
  6. Earn extra cash working as advertising space.
  7. Make neat waves with stomach.
  8. Your stretched out underwear will fit like new.
  9. People will feel like they are closer to you.
  10. Get to be an extra in Free Willy II.

Top Ten Misdemeanors at Engineering Dorm

  1. Showing good color-coordination in dress choices.

  2. Programming in BASIC.

  3. Using a typewriter.
  4. Using Jove.
  5. Downloading at 2400.
  6. Never got past level 8 in D&D.
  7. Only having one e-mail account.
  8. Misquoting Star Trek.
  9. Owning a Mac.
  10. Dating.

Top Ten Things to do in the Substance-Free-Dorm

  1. Your RA.
  2. Pretend you are a narc.
  3. Call (900) numbers.
  4. Telekinesis.
  5. Square dancing.
  6. Snort Dipsticks and run around on a sugar high.
  7. Pet-sitting for police drug sniffing dogs.
  8. Sniffing others’ clothes after they return from Co-op party.
  9. Virtual kegger.
  10. Get high on life!