Talk:Three Little Pigs
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Hey! There's no spoiler warning! I was innocently reading along, and suddenly, the whole plot was revealed! Ortolan88
- This article is about a story which is too simplistic to rate a "spoiler" warning. There isn't much of a plot. KillerChihuahua?!? 00:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- "I read somewhere" that this story actually started out as a government-sponsored handbill in England back in the 1600s. The Great Fire of London had just happened and the government was trying to build support for a law requiring all new buildings in town to be of brick or stone (such a law actually was enacted). -- Cranston Lamont 22:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Some quick searching on google and google books didn't net me a reliable source for this. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's why it's in the talk section and not in the article. -- Cranston Lamont 03:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yep :-) Well, it would be a great fact fr the article if it were verifiable, anyway. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's why it's in the talk section and not in the article. -- Cranston Lamont 03:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- Some quick searching on google and google books didn't net me a reliable source for this. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- "I read somewhere" that this story actually started out as a government-sponsored handbill in England back in the 1600s. The Great Fire of London had just happened and the government was trying to build support for a law requiring all new buildings in town to be of brick or stone (such a law actually was enacted). -- Cranston Lamont 22:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Are you sure that it is...
he huffed and he puffed and he blew his house 'in' i am really sure that it is blew his house 'Down'
- The passage you're referring to doesn't cite a specific version of the story, so your question can't be answered either way. Since it's a quote, I suppose it should get a "citation needed" tag. GMcGath 21:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Every version I've heard uses 'in'. 'Down' wouldn't rhyme. The house is blown 'in', because the walls are blown 'in', causing it to crumple and collapse. To me, blowing down suggests a tall house that fell over with the force of the wind. Skittle 14:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Originally "Three Little Pigsies"?
Apparently, a very similar tale about Cornish Pigsies (or pixies) appeared in an edition of the "Athenaeum" magazine dated 1846. I can't copy/paste on the system I'm on but google "Three Little Pigsies" and a reference should be easy to find. Gerard.
[edit] Removed 'works influenced' sentence
"In the online Chinese idioms dictionary in Taiwan, there had had one of the idioms called "三隻小豬" (Three Little Pigs). However, after found and reported by some news channel, it has been removed."
This makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone know what it's talking about? Skittle 14:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
It is the news that the the on-line dictionary of Ministry of Education in Taiwan has some inappropriate content. Somebody had written his viewpoint in the blog. --220.135.148.39 11:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Allegorical?
I heard recently that the story is allegorical to some sort of political situation in Germany, but I haven't been able to find any further information on this other than a vague reference. Does anyone know anything about this? If true, I think it would be worth including in the article as it would give the story some depth beyond a mere children's tale. croll 14:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
