• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      And your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

      ~Sorry, it felt strangely appropriate for some reason.~

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      8 days ago

      I thought it was a cannon and the rhyme retold a historical event: the king spent his money on an army of soldiers and horses instead of infrastructure (fixing the wall). All those horses and men cannot make up for the loss of the wall and cannon.