From:	The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Plot ideas for Shadowrun
Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:34:24 +0100

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Fisher, Victor wrote:

> speculative sciences, or history. Or mythology. Maybe even the study of
> the origin of a nursery rhyme [Does anybody remember 'Ring around the
> rosie?' Can anyone say what that rhyme's REALLY talking about, when it
> was conceived over 500 years ago?]
Wasn't it about the plague? The ring of roses referred to a ring of red
splotches on the skin which indicated infection, the pocketful of posey
was used to cover the smell of the rotting flesh, and 'all fall down'
refers to dying. I think this is correct anyway.


The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
"Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
-Rush, Losing It