A nice red apple for you Dearie...........

[Peter Errington]

Or cowpie.

[Lon Frank]

Well, Peter, nice tries, but you need to move your desk closer to the blackboard.

Number 8 is gonna be tough, it's a linguistic principal, known as "_______ Law". But there are a couple of easy ones I thought would be answered by now.

[big kumara]

I'm totally lost--I knew the "ring around the rosie" question, but that's it. I've never actually read any fairy tales [img]redface.gif[/img]

[flora]

Flapjack: Not by the hair of your chinny chin chin!

[Lon Frank]

All right flora! I guess gingerbread did not grow wild in Norway, because their version features a runaway pancake, made with new milk, no less! I doubt they would have chased one made with old milk. (shudder)

Anyhow, if you were answering #17, you get this neat set of google-eye glasses!

I was about to post the answers to all the rest, since it looks like there's not a lot of fairt tale fanciers hereabouts, but I'll wait a while.

[Peter Errington]

Lon, you're telling me my insight into Norwegian psychology is wrong? Boy, if that isn't the frozen limit!

[Lon Frank]

OK, it's time to fold the tent:

1 Snow White in the original Grimm version.

2 bubonic plague

3 Hansel and Gretel

4 ?Hey there, Little Red riding hood,
you sure are lookin? good.
You?re ever thang a big bad wolf would want. AAAOOOOWWWW!?

From ?Little Red Riding Hood?, by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, 196?


5 Little Red Riding Hood?s given name

6. In an expanded version of Snow White, she marries the Prince and has kids. But the prince doesn?t dare tell his folks, because Mom is an ogre who later tries to eat them. Talk about your mother-in-law problems - ?Hi, Mom, I, uh, just called up to ask, uh, how long does your recipe say to boil a four-year-old??

7 Charles Perrault was a 17th century French writer who compiled many of the tales we know today. (Charles Couralt was the traveling newsman, famous for his on-the-road series)

8 Grimm?s Law of linguistics. The Grimm brothers were professional linguists who developed a mammoth dictionary of German language.

9. There are over 700 known versions of the Cinderella tale. The earliest is a 9th century version which has the abused step-sister, namedYeh-hsien, who gets her wishes granted from the bones of a giant fish. Oh, dem bones, dem bones!

10 The ?twelve dancing princesses? would sneak out to cut a rug every night, but were busted when Daddy noticed that they each wore out a pair of shoes daily.

11 After Beauty brought out the Prince in her Beast (sound familiar, ladies?), her two evil step sisters became stone statues at the palace gates.

12 In the early Scottish version of Cinderalla, she is named Rashin Coatie, and instead of a fairy god-mother, she has the dead body of her pet calf. I can?t figure why Disney didn?t use this version.

13. The bros. Grimm

14. Goldilocks, originally an old woman in the story of the three bears in 1837, later became Silver Hair, and then Goldilocks in 1904, when the story was 67 yers old.

15. Tiny Thumbellina?s first adventure began when she was kidnapped to be the bride of a frog. Not exactly thrilled at the prospect of playing leap-frog among the lilly pads, she escaped to become the missus of the Flower King.

16 After being enchanted by her doting mother, Dame Gothel, and imprisoned in a tower, Rapunzel droped her braids to a passing handsome stranger. He climbed up to her window, and the story doesn?t say, but I imagine she really let her hair down then.

17. Pancake

[Nunna Ya]

Lon, do you talk like that cajun guy in "Joe Dirt"?

[flora]

Doggone-it, Lonster! I apologize. That's what I get for being so terse that even I can't figure out what I'm drivin' at. I was thinking of another ditty by the Phay-rows.

Thanks for the google eyes, hon. I'm passing them on to Nunna Ya here, cuz they clash with my naturally googly peepers.

Fairy tales have held me in better stead in understanding and predicting human nature than any psyche theories or bible stories ever have. I have some close relations who'd make some great material themselves {and I've got the scars to prove it}. Luckily, the bookcase was filled with old musty wonders when I was a sprout, and now wish I'd read more of them out loud as a mommy. {We were pretty enthralled with the Greek and Norse Gods here at that time. Might have been a testosterone effect}. The weird thing is the fable names and the titles are lost in a fog to me. It's kinda like the fact that I was raised on classical music & can't remember the titles - though every note is forever etched deep within my bones. Too young to learn, but too old to forget.

Have any of you re-read these stories now that you are grown, and are there any books or collections you'd care to recommend to a geezerette?

[Lon Frank]

flora, you're not going to try and tell us you had two ugly step-sisters and a fairy god-mother, now are ya?

I haven't read many of the stories in a long time, and never read most of them. Just absorbed them through Disney and the Fairytale Theater videos with Shelly Duval. Those are great, and some of Kit's and my favorites.

But, I had fun setting up the quiz, and learned quite a bit about the old tales. They musta had an abundance of ugly step sisters and handsome princes back then.

Oh, and don't bother giving Nunna ya your glasses, I got an eye patch that will probably do the job better. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]