THE SICKNESS
IN
jONAH'S WHALE
Broadway Bares is an annual burlesque show fundraiser for the organization, founded by Jerry Mitchell in 1992. Broadway dancers and actors perform striptease dances for the audience at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City for two shows only in June.
The 24th edition, Rock Hard! raised over $1.3 million.[7] Participants included James Franco, Bianca del Rio, Alan Cumming, Alex Minsky and more than 150 dancers.[8] To date, Broadway Bares has raised more than $11.3 million.
As I was taking my usual afternoon
bipolar medication,
a rather sad looking Jewish man, couple of books under his arm, came walking by heading up the hill.
As I stepped back giving him room to pass by,
he held out a fist for me to fist him back.
And I did.
But before he got completely away, I asked if I could ask him a question about The Book of Jonah; to which he stops and turns around looking a little irritated.
"What does the whale represent?"
~(Simply Jim: Sons and Daughters of Fish Named Wanda)~
Didn't quite hear his answer; but sounding something like:
"Could be a number of things.
It wasn't (?was?) a fish!"
"I'm wanting to believe the whale represents womankind; Jonah mankind. Do we not all come from woman..?"
~(Simply Jim: Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~
"THANK YOU!"
he replies at the same time returning back to his walk up the hill.
***
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Many verses have been added to the rhyme, including a version with a total of 15 stanzas in a chapbook of the 19th century. The second verse, probably added as part of these extensions[1] has become a standard part of the nursery rhyme.[2] Early versions took the form:
Jack is the most common name used in English language nursery rhymes and by the 18th century represented an archetypal Everyman hero,[9] while by the end of the Middle Ages Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart.[10] However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl), and used the spelling Gill not Jill.[1] This earliest printed version comes from a reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, thought to have been first published in London around 1765.[11] The rhyming of "water" with "after", was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the first verse may date from the first half of the 17th century.[1]
While the true origins of the rhyme are unknown there are several theories. As is common with nursery rhyme exegesis, complicated metaphors are often said to exist within the lyrics of Jack and Jill. Most explanations post-date the first publication of the rhyme and have no corroborating evidence.[1] Around 1835 John Bellenden Ker suggested that Jack and Jill were two priests, and this was enlarged by Katherine Elwes in 1930 to indicate that Jack represented Cardinal Wolsey (c.1471–1530); and Jill was Bishop Tarbes, who negotiated the marriage of Mary Tudor to the French king in 1514.[12]
The suggestion has also been made that Jack and Jill represent Louis XVI of France, who was deposed and beheaded in 1793 (lost his crown), and his Queen, Marie Antoinette (who came tumbling after), a theory made difficult by the fact that the earliest printing of the rhyme pre-dates those events.[7] There is also a local belief that the rhyme records events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697. When a local spinster became pregnant, the putative father is said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after.[7]
***
"What does the whale represent?"
~(Simply Jim: Sons and Daughters of Fish Named Wanda)~
Didn't quite hear his answer; but sounding something like:
"Could be a number of things.
It wasn't (?was?) a fish!"
"I'm wanting to believe the whale represents womankind; Jonah mankind. Do we not all come from woman..?"
~(Simply Jim: Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~
"THANK YOU!"
he replies at the same time returning back to his walk up the hill.
***
- Up Jack got, and home did trot,
- As fast as he could caper;
- To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob
- With vinegar and brown paper.[1]
By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (London, 1919) to:
- Up Jack got and home did trot,
- As fast as he could caper;
- And went to bed and bound his head
- With vinegar and brown paper.[3]
A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took the form:
- Then Jill came in, and she did grin,
- To see Jack's paper plaster;
- Her mother whipt her, across her knee,
- For laughing at Jack's disaster.[1]
Twentieth-century versions of this verse include:
- When Jill came in how she did grin
- To see Jack's paper plaster;
- Mother vexed did whip her next
- For causing Jack's disaster.[3]
Jack is the most common name used in English language nursery rhymes and by the 18th century represented an archetypal Everyman hero,[9] while by the end of the Middle Ages Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart.[10] However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl), and used the spelling Gill not Jill.[1] This earliest printed version comes from a reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, thought to have been first published in London around 1765.[11] The rhyming of "water" with "after", was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the first verse may date from the first half of the 17th century.[1]
While the true origins of the rhyme are unknown there are several theories. As is common with nursery rhyme exegesis, complicated metaphors are often said to exist within the lyrics of Jack and Jill. Most explanations post-date the first publication of the rhyme and have no corroborating evidence.[1] Around 1835 John Bellenden Ker suggested that Jack and Jill were two priests, and this was enlarged by Katherine Elwes in 1930 to indicate that Jack represented Cardinal Wolsey (c.1471–1530); and Jill was Bishop Tarbes, who negotiated the marriage of Mary Tudor to the French king in 1514.[12]
Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive infancy. She was born at Richmond Palace. She and her brother, Henry, were close as children—he named his daughter, the future Queen Mary I, after her.
Known in her youth as one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe,[1] Mary was betrothed in December 1507 to Charles of Castile, later Holy Roman Emperor. However, changes in the political alliances of the European powers meant this wedding did not take place.[2] Instead, Cardinal Wolsey negotiated a peace treaty with France, and on 9 October 1514, at the age of 18, Mary married its 52-year-old King Louis XII at Abbeville. Mary was described by the Venetian Ambassador as "a Paradise—tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor". She wore her glorious silken red-gold hair flowing loose to her waist.[3] Despite two previous marriages, Louis had no living sons, and sought to produce an heir; but he died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after marrying Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber.[4] Their union produced no children.
The suggestion has also been made that Jack and Jill represent Louis XVI of France, who was deposed and beheaded in 1793 (lost his crown), and his Queen, Marie Antoinette (who came tumbling after), a theory made difficult by the fact that the earliest printing of the rhyme pre-dates those events.[7] There is also a local belief that the rhyme records events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697. When a local spinster became pregnant, the putative father is said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after.[7]
***
A Sure Test
If you are to be a gentleman
As I suppose you’ll be
You’ll neither laugh nor smile
For a tickling of the knee.
***
Jesus had it easy.
All he had to do was give everyone a hug!
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