Looking for input, Should I sing this song to my Son. y/n?

[Skordopordonikos]

Heyas,

I sang the following to my daughter when she was 3, and she really enjoyed it (probably didn't understand it, at the time heh). Well, 10 years later, we have another child, a son.... and since some people think my daughter is a liiiiittle warped, I'm rethinking this whole 'learning' process.

So.... here it goes. Tune is the same as the original, Feel free to retch.

Little Bunny Foofoo hopping through the forest,
picking up the field mice and biting off their heads. (CHOMP)

And along comes the Liiiiiiiberal Judge! And he says:
Little Bunny Foofoo you're still a juvenile,
We'll keep you 'til you're grown, but then you're free to go.
(Spoken) And after two years, they let him go. The next day.......

Little Bunny Foofoo hopping through the forest,
Buys a stolen shotgun and shoots a fairy dead. (BANG)

And along comes the Liiiiiiiberal Judge! And he says:
Little Bunny Foofoo, Society did this to you,
I sentence you to six years, probation in two.
(Spoken) And after two years, they let him go. The next day.......

Little Bunny Foofoo tries to rob a drug store.
While running out the door he falls and breaks his neck. (SNAP)

And along comes the Liiiiiiiberal Judge! And he says: (a little slower)
Store Owner what a menace, you should have had those stairs fixed.
Pay ten million dollars to his poor family.
(Spoken) And the moral of the story is:

Take steps to prevent hare loss....

[kambuckta]

No.

[typhoon]

Just get a damn Raffi CD and let the poor kid be normal.

[Cisco]

Well, your 3 year old isn't going to understand it so it doesn't really matter if you sing it to him or not.

Might I ask why you put this in the pit though? You seem to be trying to solicit a response other than the one you claim to be looking for.

If you're joking then ha-ha. Not funny but not offensive either, just bland.

If you're serious then that song is the least of worries in regards to having a screwed up kid.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Yeah, moronic right-wing brainwashing is so cute.

[Kaitlyn]

If you're going to engage is liberal bashing, you might at least get your facts straight:

1. Judges in juvenile courts generally cannot sentence juveniles past the age at which they become adults, regardless of their political leanings.

2. Liberal judges tend to give stiffer sentences to perpetrators of hate crimes such as murdering homosexuals.

3. Juries, not judges, determine judgement awards.

4. A criminal who has spent time in prison is let out on parole, not probation. A person sentenced to probation spends no time in jail.

I doubt that anyone who thinks that murdering people for their sexuality is an appropriate topic to joke about with a three year old is much interested in the facts, or for that matter, any opinion other than his own.

[Spit]

Well, it is probably over the head of most children, but it is still a funny song!

[Esprix]

Um, you're a moron.

Esprix

[SPOOFE]

I dunno, if MY name was Foofoo, I'd probably go on a shooting spree, too...

[Jester]

You mean...it's not Foofoo? Damn. Then I gotta rewrite that card I was gonna send you.

[Abe Babe]

From singing a massive number of verses of "Hush little baby" to my daughters a 3 in the morning and making up verses, I came up with some pretty bizarre rhymes.

Nothing quite that dogmatic, though.

[Kallessa]

See, this is how insensitive I am, when I hear fairy I think Tinkerbell, not homosexual, so I didn't know what Number Six was talking about.


But it's a bogus song either way. Just sing the original, with the motions. It's been good enough for Gods know how many generations, and the threat of being turned into a good has a real affect on a child.

[Kallessa]

That should be "turned into a goon, of course. And I previewed.

[Kaje]

along the lines of cisco's comment, if you're really considering singing a song intended to carry a political message (i don't care if it is a joke, it's still conveying a point), I would imagine you're doing a lot more than just this in terms of "warping" the child (your word, not mine) so maybe you would do better to examine what your goals are in raising your children.

Note: I'm probably way out of line for having said this, as somebody is sure to point out. It just seems that the decision to sing this song to your child is an indication of a broader decision, and if you're wondering whether this song is right for the child, you may or may not decide other things you're doing are questionable as well if you look closely.

[SPOOFE]

You mean...it's not Foofoo? Damn. Then I gotta rewrite that card I was gonna send you.

No, but Monster104's name is Foofoo...

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by Kaje
considering singing a song intended to carry a political message

Eh, this wouldn't make for the end of the world. I sang "We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again" to MY kids when they were smaller.

...No more bread lines, I'm glad to say,
The donkey won Election Day!
No more standing in the blowin' snow n' rain.
He's got things in full sway
We're all workin' and gettin' our pay;
We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again!

So I suppose if you're a jerk...er, a dittohead...you 're free to do the same thing. Don't be surprised if the kid grows up to be a Yippie, though.

[Jonathan Chance]

Originally posted by Number Six
1. Judges in juvenile courts generally cannot sentence juveniles past the age at which they become adults, regardless of their political leanings.

For which I, for one, am profoundly grateful.

[Mothchunks]

I don't wanna see you

trading all your food stamps for crack and booty calls.

[elf6c]

Your first thread here nominated you as the idiot de jure. This one seconded the motion.

I hope you get the attention you crave so badly.

[Skordopordonikos]

Originally posted by elf6c
Your first thread here nominated you as the idiot de jure. This one seconded the motion.

I hope you get the attention you crave so badly.

I had French a little over 20 years ago, but if I remember right, the French usually say Idiot, Imbecile, Cretin, Fou...

They seem to have one word names down pretty well. So, ahhh - Idiot du jour (Idiot of the day, this is what you were shooting for, right?) was probably overkill.

May I make a suggestion? Try this one:
"Tu es completement debile"
You are a complete moron.

hhhhmm, if I was obviously trying to crave attention, as you so astutely suggested, I'd use poorly spelled references from another language.... no wait, that's your specialty.

Guess I'll have to find my own, how do say, spécialité

If you want to broaden you horizons and use insults from another language, Yiddish is a nice choice.

ex: Shmok (taboo) - Self-made fool; obscene for penis: derisive term for a man

Or Russian.... WOW, there are huge books written on this topic. Russians are the true masters when developing 'descriptive phrases'. LoL my personal favorite requires a little background info. Russians love steam rooms - (they believe it's therapeutic for hangovers) As you walk into the baths, there are stacks of birch branches with the leaves still on that they use to swat themselves supposedly to help keep the blood from pooling up.

Soooo, the Russians have another expression besides brownnose to choose from. Direct translation would be something like: 'Sticks to his ass like a wet birch leaf'.

[Kaje]

Originally posted by Skordopordonikos
hhhhmm, if I was obviously trying to crave attention, as you so astutely suggested, I'd use poorly spelled references from another language.... no wait, that's your specialty.

maybe he was mangling latin instead... making you the de jure idiot as opposed to de facto. Idiot of the day? No big deal. Court-appointed idiot... that's an accomplishment.

[NurseCarmen]

May I suggest Only a Lad from Oingo Boingo as a possible alternative.

Johnny was bad.
Even as a child everybody could tell
Everyone said, "If you don't get straight you'll surely go to Hell."
But, Johnny didn't care.
He was an outlaw by the time that he was ten years old.
He didn't wanna do what he was told.
Just a prankster.
A juvenile gangster!

The lady down the block
She had a radio that Johnny wanted, oh, so bad
And so he took it the first chance he had
And then he shot her in the leg
And this is what she said

(Chorus):

Only A Lad
You really can't blame him
Only A Lad
Society's made him
Only A Lad
He's our responsibility
Only A Lad
He really couldn't help it
Only A Lad
He didn't wanna do it
Only A Lad
He's underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

And when he stole the car
Nobody dreamed that he would try to take it so far
He didn't mean to hit the poor man
Who had to go and die
It made the judge cry

(Chorus):

It's not his fault that he can't behave
Society's made him go astray
Perhaps if we're nice he'll go away
Perhaps he'll go away, he'll go away...

[elf6c]

Originally posted by Kaje
maybe he was mangling latin instead... making you the de jure idiot as opposed to de facto. Idiot of the day? No big deal. Court-appointed idiot... that's an accomplishment.

While the OP may be a industrial grade idiot (watch the backpedalling in his other OP, its fun), I am not sure he is good enough for a court appointment. Sorry about the destruction of Latin.

As for the OP, try getting your facts straight and using an accurate thread title before attempting clever. We have plenty of clever people here and you do not compare well. Also, we have plenty of knee jerk right-wing wack jobs (and left-wing wack jobs, and quite possibly moderate wack jobs) all of which do a much better job of it. Heck, december looks like a Pulitzer Prize winner in comparison.

Thanks for playing "Skordopordonikos".

[martin_ibn_martin]

My oldest son's favorite lullaby was "Tom O'Bedlam"

"My staff has murdered giants
My bag a long knife carries
For to cut mince pies from children's thighs
With which to feed the faeries"

and other charming verses

hehe

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

HEY Skordopordonikos! You're a Dickhead. Is that French enough for you? :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally

[tiny ham]

oh I get it.


he doesn't subscribe to liberal ideology.

[Colibri]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
oh I get it.


he doesn't subscribe to liberal ideology.

So you like the song, then?

[Dryga_Yes]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
oh I get it.


he doesn't subscribe to liberal ideology.

you win the thread.

[tiny ham]

You see Colibri, (and stay with me here), I don't think he sings the song at all (i know! It's weird)...rather, he wrote the song as a clever vehicle for his protestations against what he sees to be liberal viewpoints towards crime and punishment.

He lured us in, and before we knew it, we were subject to his manifesto...and perhaps by putting it in childish terms, we would see how bizarre the liberal attitude can be.

[Colibri]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
You see Colibri, (and stay with me here), I don't think he sings the song at all (i know! It's weird)...rather, he wrote the song as a clever vehicle for his protestations against what he sees to be liberal viewpoints towards crime and punishment.

He lured us in, and before we knew it, we were subject to his manifesto...and perhaps by putting it in childish terms, we would see how bizarre the liberal attitude can be.

So you liked the song, then?

[tiny ham]

Fuck no. i hate rabbits.

[Skordopordonikos]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
You see Colibri, (and stay with me here), I don't think he sings the song at all (i know! It's weird)...rather, he wrote the song as a clever vehicle for his protestations against what he sees to be liberal viewpoints towards crime and punishment.

RofL... When my daughter was three, two of the three songs she asked me to sing over and over AND OVER ack... was:

This posted version of 'Little Bunny Foofoo'.
and 'What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor'?

The third song was 'One Sunny Day' A long sing/response song about meeting a bear in the woods and the attempt to get away... (I'll stop here, don't want to give the end away)

Well, child number two in now almost three and 'One Sunny Day'
is the song he most recently has been requesting (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Muffin Man, etc. seem to be falling out of favor.)

I sang pretty much everything to my daughter, and had no major restrictions regarding her access to TV and movies, so long as she watched it with either her mother or father to help her understand what she was watching. She was reading adult level books (not adult content, books like LoTR, etc) by the time she was seven.

Since she could basically talk, she has had a 'unique' viewpoint on ethics ala 'Bill Clinton'. When she was three I saw her spill milk on the floor and asked her why she did it. She looked me in the eye and said that she didn't spill the milk. After a series of Q&A I'd find out that since the glass slipped, it wasn't on purpose, since it wasn't on purpose, she didn't do it. She would be upset if I accused her of lying. She really, REALLY is wired this way.

So, I'm wondering if it's a hardware/software problem.
Is she like this because of her genetic makeup, or exposure to ethically ambivalent material has 'rolled' what in my younger D&D days was referred to as a 'chaotic neutral' char.

As for Bosda, if youre going to switch to such intellectual pinnacles as 'dickhead'... well I'll have to escalate it to two or three 'yo mamas'.

[Esprix]

But you seem to have no problem encouraging her "wiring."

It seems you really do have to be "carefully taught."

Esprix

[Protesilaus]

Originally posted by Kallessa
See, this is how insensitive I am, when I hear fairy I think Tinkerbell, not homosexual, so I didn't know what Number Six was talking about.

Same here. I mean, when you've got shotgun-toting bunnies, little winged pixies aren't out of the question.

Oh, and the song blew.

[Cisco]

I speak a little French. You're an assbite, pardon my French.

[Diane]

And to think, the worst song I taught my babies was:

Wake up Jacob
Daddy shot a bear.
Shot him in the bumhole
Never moved a hair.

[Giraffe]

Originally posted by Skordopordonikos
Is she like this because of her genetic makeup, or exposure to ethically ambivalent material has 'rolled' what in my younger D&D days was referred to as a 'chaotic neutral' char

So you mean, is it due to you acting like a dipshit in front of her, or her inheriting your dipshit genes? That is a puzzler, no question about it.

[Colibri]

Originally posted by jarbabyj
oh I get it.


he doesn't subscribe to liberal ideology.

'Course, in his other thread, he comes across as a bit to the left of Chumpsky (combined with a bit of megalomania and fabulism). So I guess he's an anti-liberal leftist.

[GuanoLad]

Introduce your child to "The Wiggles". Maybe. They're cool.

[beagledave]

Originally posted by GuanoLad
Introduce your child to "The Wiggles". Maybe. They're cool.

Oh yeah..four "bachelors" hanging out with talking dogs, dinos..and a friendly "pirate".

No gay subtext there.

Ehh BabyMaeve loves 'em.

[NoClueBoy]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
I sang "We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again" to MY kids when they were smaller.

...No more bread lines, I'm glad to say,
The donkey won Election Day!
No more standing in the blowin' snow n' rain.
He's got things in full sway
We're all workin' and gettin' our pay;
We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again!

Damn, Ike. How old are you?

BTW, if you seriously want to warp your children, buy them Disney videos.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[gex gex]

Hey, everyone cut Skordopordonikos some slack! He's just trying to protect his daughter from them goddamn commie Liberal freaks who love criminals and gays and want to stop ordinary folk like us from owning guns and shooting whatever we want. Dammit, if it weren't for those Liberals out there, we'd own Iraq, be flooding Alaska with oil and I wouldn't have to pay any taxes! The blacks would sit where they were meant to on the buses, or rather they wouldn't ride them at all. What's more, Little Bunny Foo Foo would have been praying in school and saying the pledge loud and clear every morning and would never have wanted to do shit to the field mice. Not unless they were Liberal field mice, who hate our country and its freedoms, which of course we shouldn't expect to use.

Skordopordonikos, I hope your daughter grows up to be a hippy. A commie vegan one who loves gays.

[NoClueBoy]

Or is gay.

[Zebra]

Does your son look like you?

You don't mention being divorced and I have a hard time believing a woman would fuck you twice.

[Mothchunks]

"I went down to Satan's kitchen,
for to get me food one morning,
and there I found soul's piping hot,
all on the spit a' turning."

That Mad Tom. He sure gets around.

[lothos2002]

Originally posted by Esprix
Um, you're a moron.

Esprix

Skordopordonikos: there are two options about this, please pick the one that applies:

a) You did sing that tripe to your three year old, in which case

Y o u - a r e - a - m o r o n - (to say the least)

or

b) Y o u - a r e - a - l y i n g - t r o l l

in which case, just shut up.

lothos

[mhendo]

Originally posted by Colibri
'Course, in his other thread, he comes across as a bit to the left of Chumpsky (combined with a bit of megalomania and fabulism). So I guess he's an anti-liberal leftist.

Actually, i'm thinking just a troll.