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FWR Started conversation Sep 24, 2019
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*Twinkle, twinkle Little Star…*
Actually Dad, stars don't twinkle, it's an optical effect due to the atmosphere…..and stars are anything but little!
*How I wonder what you are….*
Actually Mum, most stars are massive balls of superheated gases held together by their own immense mass, Google it Grandad!
*Up above the world so high…*
Just a matter of spatial perspective Man.
*Like a diamond in the sky…*
Nothing like a diamond and it's not in the sky!
*Suppose a story about three talking bears and a little blonde haired human discussing the thermal merits of porridge is out then
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Sep 24, 2019
I have to admit, my favourite night time pastime as a child was to consider the thermal merits of oatmeal - that says something, but I'm not sure what
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FWR Posted Sep 24, 2019
Ahem...oatmeal...type of porridge, whereas porridge can be produced from a variety of grains, not just oats me deary! Oh lord, it's catching! 
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FWR Posted Sep 24, 2019
Tsk tsk, you'd last two minutes in our house with the google Gestapo...sorry, our kids!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 24, 2019
But the little kid wasn't born knowing the true nature of stars. There must have come a time when he (or she) really *did* wonder what the stars were, and didn't know the scientific answers yet.
When you say "like a diamond in the sky," you're being poetic, not literal. Is there no longer room for poetry in our imaginative lives? 
We have computer-generated movies about ogres (Shrek) and mastodons ("Ice Age"), with no one batitng an eye about their relaiton to reality, but a harmless little song about the way stars might look to a young child (or a young-at-heart adult) is out?
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FWR Posted Sep 24, 2019
A light-hearted gripe at the youngsters of today and the ability to immediately challenge anything and everything with a few taps on a phone mate. The moon is no longer a dairy based home for a spatula welding musician either...
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FWR Posted Sep 24, 2019
Sending children uphill to collect water has been banned on health and safety grounds, and the medical practitioner faces several lawsuits for the in appropriate application of brown paper and vinegar to a head wound.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 24, 2019
Try 'The Space Child's Mother Goose':
http://archive.org/details/spacechildsmothe00wins
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 24, 2019
Humpty Dumpty's story was very eggciting.
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- 2: SashaQ - happysad (Sep 24, 2019)
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- 5: FWR (Sep 24, 2019)
- 6: SashaQ - happysad (Sep 24, 2019)
- 7: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 24, 2019)
- 8: FWR (Sep 24, 2019)
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- 10: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Sep 24, 2019)
- 11: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 24, 2019)
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