a little birdie told me so: Tale Retold

Monday, December 5, 2011

Tale Retold

Imagine if Shakespeare wrote the Three Little Pigs. This might sound a bit like his.

7 comments:

Lisa at GreenbowDecember 6, 2011 at 5:37 AM
This is a great performance. Oh so true too.
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DarylDecember 6, 2011 at 8:49 AM
I hate technology when it misbehaves .. my #@%^! Dell computer here at the office dislikes playing video .. makes the #$!%* thing crash .. so I'll be viewing this at home.
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HilaryDecember 6, 2011 at 11:40 AM
I'm with Daryl. I'm not home right now and it's loading very slowly and is choppy.

Though as I type this, the audio is going quite smoothly now. And I'm snickering. Too cute.
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Jill from Killeny GlenDecember 7, 2011 at 7:42 AM
Oh this is hilarious!! My 14 year old is doing an English section on Shakespeare...I CANNOT WAIT for him to see this video!!!
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ZuzanaDecember 8, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Very funny.;) It puts a whole new spin on familiar tales.;))
xoxo
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soulbrushDecember 9, 2011 at 4:38 AM
ROFLMAO, the' Bard' must be turning in his grave!
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ChaChaneenDecember 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Hilarious! Thanks for sharing!
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I'm glad you stopped by and I look forward to your comments. As Dr. Fraser Crane would say, "Hello, I'm listening."

...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'