Isn't the expression "Don't let the bed bugs bite" kind of a jacked up thing to say to a kid before bedtime?

And what the hell's up with those happy nursery rhymes like Rock a Bye Baby singing about babies falling down from the top of a tree? "When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come cradle, baby and all." Now how's a 30ft fall supposed to make a baby calm down and fall asleep? And why was the baby hanging in a tree top in the first place? (Every parent knows that the middle of a freeway at rush hour is a much better place for a baby. "Come on, cross the street! Come to daddy! You can do it!") Or what about Jack and Jill, singing about a boy falling down a hill and cracking his head open while they were just trying to quench their thirst and look for water?

Hey, wait a second! If it's that easy, prepare for my next #1 happy kid song! I was thinking along the lines of "Curious Anne and the jolly garbage disposal" or "Baby in a hot car, hot car, hot car". Whaddya think?? COME ON, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT!!!!

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EDIT @ Vernon: Ha - yeah, I always come first. Err I mean... ;) But great minds think alike, tight?

DOUBLE EDIT: ......I meant "right", not "tight". Damn typo! LOL

Russell....I recently read about the "bedbug" epidemic in my local newspaper & it made my skin crawl. I haven't experienced any problems with the dreaded bugs so far. I vacuum my bed pillows & mattressess twice a month & spray them with Lysol & let the spray dry & let the bed & mattressess air out completely. I've done this regularly for years with all the mattresses in the house. I'm not sure if it makes a difference where BB are concerned or not.The Terminix man is going to make a routine scheduled visit to my home next week & I'm going to ask him what I can do to prevent from getting these critters. I don't know anyone who has been affected by the BB, so I'm not sure if a doctor has to prescribe an antibiotic or not.

Yep, but at the time it came about, it was actually good advice...Good night, sleep tight & don't let the bed bugs bite.

Sleep tight, as in tuck the covers in really, really good & hope it keeps the vermin out....

What about Pop goes the weasel? I mean the damn monkey pulled the poor fecker's head right off...

What i really hated was that prayer, about dying before I wake...ones own mortality is always a pleasant before bed thought.

Sure, but so are a lot of things we say/sing/teach kids. Consider the nursery rhyme Rock A' Bye Baby. You know, "when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come cradle, baby and all"? Massive, internal cranial bleeding is what I want my kid to imagine as she's dozing off.

And what about the rhyme Mary Mary, Quite Contrary? That's actually a rhyme about Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) and the graveyard where she put anyone dissenting from the Catholic Church.

There's also Humpty Dumpty (breaks his pate open after falling off a wall), Hansel and Gretel (cannibalism), Gerogie Porgie (pervert), and the list goes on and on.

In my case luv it's not an expression - it's a very real warning.

I try my best to be selective, but you never really know what's in that mattress when you pick it up from the side of the freeway.

@Jack: Way to multi-task luv.

Yes, but I've found that if you give the nightly dose of NyQuil, the little angels sleep peacefully. That's what I always got before I went to bed growing up, and it hasn't affected me at all. It's even turned into a pleasant ritual, pouring out the little cup of NyQuil with one hand, holding onto my glass of bourbon with the other. :)

Lmao.....yeah, that is pretty much what it is saying. Your next question should be on "Ring Around the Rosie" where the little kiddies are singing about the plague and how the flowers were utilized to cover up the stench of death and decay.

That's terrible! I would never say anything like that! I always say - Don't dangle your feet off the bed or that monster down there will bite them off!

My dad sings my kids a song:

I woke up in the morning, I looked up on the wall.

The cooties and the bedbugs were playing basketball.

The score was one to nothing; the cooties were ahead.

The bedbugs scored a basket, and knocked me out of bed.

It creeps me out.

All these creepy nursery rhymes and things... These are why we have such crazy people living and killing and being psychos in America.