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In the world of well-worn kids’ songs, there’s the good, the bad, and the annoying. Those melodies and lyrics are so hardwired into our psyche, we don’t even know the meaning of what we’re singing.
We say — stop the madness! Here are five songs that should be stricken from the most popular kids’ song lists:
1) Ring Around The Rosy
The meaning of this song is anything but rosy. Sure it has that fun finale “we all fall down,” but unfortunately — since the lyrics are in reference to the Black Plague of 1665 — everyone’s falling because they’re dropping dead. Here’s a breakdown of a few lyrics:
Ring around the rosy
First symptom of the plague was red, rosy cheeks– think about that the next time you brush on your L’Oreal mauve blush.
Pocket full of Posies
In a futile attempt to ward off the “black death,” people would carry posie petals in their pockets–about the equivalent of a glass of Airborne — totally useless.
Ashes, ashes we all fall down
A children’s song that references a standard burial sermon? Hey kids, let’s go to a funeral!
Why this song is considered a lullaby is anyone’s guess. What it is, is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Who was the manufacturer of that cradle? It obviously should be recalled before more unsuspecting babies plummet to the ground. Lulling your child to sleep with a tale of a shoddily constructed bed is like telling them the Big Bad Wolf will be waiting for them in their dreams. Not advised.
3) There’s a Hole in the Bucket
First major problem of this traditional folk song is, it has no end — kind of like housework. It incorporates something known as an infinite-loop motif — which in layman’s terms means singing it will make you go loopy. What’s more, it’s sung in an irritating, monotonous rhythm by two country bumpkins named Henry and Liza. The pair — perhaps a dysfunctional married couple — are trapped in a living hell over a broken bucket. After 17-plus refrains of this never-ending tune you’ll feel like kicking the bucket yourself.

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The first go-round for Australia’s Go-Betweens lasted six albums and nearly a dozen years—call it the ’80s with a running start. And though band founders Robert Forster and Grant McLennan professed harder-edged influences like the Saints and the Velvet Underground, their resulting partnered sound emanated with a harmonious polish, like a more optimistic version of the Cure or the Smiths. Soon enough, Forster and McLennan—like Squeeze’s Difford and Tilbrook—were inextricably and positively compared to Lennon and McCartney, but the expected correlative commercial success proved elusive. So following the soft landing of 1988’s 16 Lovers Lane, the consensus pick for best Go-Betweens album and the group’s last, best chance for ecto-Australian stardom, Forster and McLennan parted professional ways. The duo stayed friends, at times even touring together as each launched a career alone. Forster recorded four solo albums, and McLennan recorded four solo albums. The pair, it seemed, was always in lockstep.
But while critical notice kept pace with their individual ventures, the decade-long dalliances drew to a close. In the year 2000, Forster and McLennan reclaimed the Go-Betweens name and, backed by Sleater-Kinney, recorded Friends of Rachel Worth, the first of three albums of original material for the new century.
At the end of this month, Forster will release The Evangelist, his fifth solo album and his first since the Go-Betweens reunited. But the partnership, the lockstep, has been broken. On May 6, 2006, while napping prior to a party, Grant McLennan suffered a massive heart attack, cutting short a brief life and long collaboration.
It’s a blustery day on the Lower East Side. By mid-afternoon, the remains of unexpected early-morning snow showers have reanimated as puddles of gray, slushy water bouncing against the curbside in the wake of passing cabs on Avenue A.
We’re here, of course, to discuss The Evangelist. But we’re here, at the Hi-Fi, because two trips ago—not the Go-Betweens’ last New York show (a Mercury Lounge gig attended by Glenn Close dressed in so much white she could’ve re-created her role in The Natural), but the trip before that—McLennan and his label’s publicist came to the Hi-Fi, a bar owned by the publicist for 16 Lovers Lane, to drink. A lot. And so, quite possibly, the Hi-Fi is the last bar in New York City where McLennan imbibed with dedication and fervor.

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If you want to turn your PC into a DVR, there are a number of ways you could go about it. You could rebuild the system and run a native app such as MythTV or Windows Media Center, and you could install a TV tuner card to allow you to tune in to your favorite channels and record your favorite shows. Alternatively, you could leave your computer the way it is and pick up the Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick. The Ultimate Stick packs a lot of power into a tiny USB stick, carries its own software, and make the process of recording and viewing live television on your PC as easy as plugging the device into a USB port.
The Pinnacle PCTV HD Ultimate Stick is probably the easiest and simplest TV device I’ve seen. The device is a lot like other Pinnacle TV devices: You plug the stick into a USB port on your PC (Windows XP SP2 and Vista only, no Mac or Linux users need apply), and the TV Center Pro software that comes pre-loaded on the stick takes over. The majority of the software runs directly from the device, so you don’t have to worry about a ton of software cluttering up your PC. The app does install some components locally, but when I used the HD Ultimate Stick, the install took only a couple of minutes.

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A southern Utah woman is recovering after being scalped while riding on a go-cart.
Dawn Tiatia was riding go-carts at her daughter’s birthday party at a park in Saint George, Utah, a few weeks ago. A big chunk of her hair got caught in the machine’s drive shaft and was ripped off her head.
After spending several days in the hospital, she made a full recovery. The park says there are signs warning about long hair getting caught in the machines.
This is not an isolated incident. Two years ago the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning for riders to immediately stop using these types of go-carts until they can be retro-fitted because of this problem.
Experts say to avoid this type of injury riders should: Wear a hair net, make sure your helmet is fitted to you so that loose hair doesn’t fall out. Not wear loose clothing of any kind. Also look at the go-cart to see if it has an axle cover, chain cover, and engine cover to prevent anything being sucked into the go-cart.

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