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   Tim McDaniel to All   
   SMBC on urban legends about fairy tales   
   10 Jan 15 11:18:04   
   
   From: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal,   
   http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php , is a daily Webcomic that   
   actually updates consistently.  It's pretty consistently funny and   
   often geeky.   
      
   Today's is   
   http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3606#comic   
      
   For those who don't want to go to it:   
      
   Top caption: "Fun fact: People will believe any explanation of a   
   nursery rhyme, as long as it's horrific."   
      
   Person 1: "Did you know that 'Jack Sprat' was about the French   
   monarchy starving the Calvinists to death?"   
      
   Person 2: "It makes so much sense now."   
      
   Mouseover: "The platter represents the Edict of Fontainbleau."   
      
   (BTW, should be "Edict of Fontainebleau": it was the Revocation of the   
   Edict of Nantes.)   
      
   --   
   Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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