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mousepod 05-15-2007 08:47 AM

I've heard most of those - I grew up in New Jersey.

It's interesting how nursery rhymes and the like get modified to fit current standards of acceptability. In 1939, Agatha Christie's novel "Ten Little N*****s" was published. By the time I was a kid, it was "Ten Little Indians". I wonder if even that title would be considered acceptable by today's standards.

Alex 05-15-2007 09:23 AM

Reading around, the unclean version (I'm at work now so just typing that work stops) was in Pulp Fiction though I don't specifically remember it.

mousepod 05-15-2007 09:27 AM

If I remember correctly, the Pulp Fiction usage was in the scene in the back of the pawn shop.

Alex 05-15-2007 10:03 AM

Yeah, I remember the scene (deciding which one to rape first) I just don't remember the specifics of the rhyme.

And according to Wikipedia, Tarantino must have a fondness for it because it also appears in Natural Born Killers, which he was involved with writing.

Prudence 05-15-2007 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mousepod (Post 136300)
By the time I was a kid, it was "Ten Little Indians". I wonder if even that title would be considered acceptable by today's standards.

I believe it's generally now called "And Then There Were None." (We read this in my fifth grade class. Or maybe it was sixth grade. Same teacher.)


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