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

[Lon Frank]

OK, since nobody got all the answers to the last Quiz on the Wiz, I?m lowering my standards and presenting a little poisoned-apple punditry. These are about regular, Disney-type fairy tales, known by all of us, and pretty easy to find on the net. Here are your suitably ambiguous clues, see how many you know without a web search:

1. Snow Drop

2. ring around the rosie

3. in the original, the vandalous little brats were toast

4. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

5. Biddy

6. tried to snack on the apple-eater (and her kids!)

7. 17th century author, kinda like the chubby newsman on the road

8. details the way certain sounds in one language correspond with sounds in another

9. the earliest (history-wise) pretty (and sooty) step sister

10. worn out shoes

11. two snarly, gnarly statues by the gate

12. in Scotland, she was a bovine corpse (phew!)

13. Jacob and Wilhelm

14. She was 67 years old, when her hair turned from silver to......blonde!

15. She had ?little? self-esteem, but she wasn?t about to go connubial on that frog!

16. Enchanted by Dame Gothel, she dropped ?em for a handsome stranger.

17. It was flat to fly, and round to roll; in Norway the Ginger Bread Man was a......


And finally, what's worse than finding a worm in your poisoned apple?

NYUK

[Pammy]

"And finally, what's worse than finding a worm in your poisoned apple?"

Finding HALF of a worm! [img]eek.gif[/img]

[Lon Frank]

Yessah, yessah, yessah! We got a winnah here! Young lady, you can have your choice of a gen-u-wine kewpie doll, or this realistic stick-on nose wart.

(Now, step aside and let the other suckers up.)

[the mule]

Number 7 is Chaucer.

Gimme my prize!

[Pammy]

9. Cinderella?

10. The Elves and the Shoemaker?

[Peter Errington]

Number 13 is the Grimms?

[Lon Frank]

number 7 is not Chaucer. Gimme back those Chinese handcuffs! It's a fairy tale writer, whose name sounds like a famous newsman on-the-road of the 80's

Number 9 is kinda right (Cinderella), but I'm looking for character in the earliest version.

Number 10 is not the elves and the shoemaker. Gong!

Number 13 is the Brothers Grimm, Jake and Willie. BTW, Wilhelm married a girl who first told them a version of a fairy tale, but Jacob continued to live with the couple after they were married, and treated the children as his own. How's that for a fairy tale?

You guys are gonna have to get sharper pencils.

[Peter Errington]

"Ring around the rosie" was a childrens' rhyme originating from the Black Death. ("Achoo achoo, all fall down")

I think the brats who were toast might have been an early version of Hansel and Gretel (sp?).

[Lon Frank]

Atta boy Peter! (And I thought that all the smarty women folk would show us up on this)

#2 does refer to the rash accompanying the bubonic plauge. A "pocket full of posies" were helpful in combatting the stench of death in the streets. And it was a nursery rhyme rather than a for-really fairy tale, but I thought it interesting.

#3 - in an early version, the witch has Hansel and Gretel over for lunch. And I do mean FOR lunch! Serves 'em right for nibblin' on the siding.

[Peter Errington]

I'll make a guess about #8. I'm not sure if onamatapoea (misspelled, I'm sure) is the right term, but there is a term for a word that sounds like the thing itself. The word "piss" for example.

Number #17 = frisbee