Talk:Hey Diddle Diddle

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Question: should this article place so much emphasis on the Tolkien version or should that have a separate article? Lee M 00:25, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Tolkien's version moved to The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late. Ausir 22:41, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

And 8 years later, it seems someone re-inserted an extended quote of Tolkien's version. Yay for reading the talk page before you edit! I cut this as, among other things, a likely copyright violation as it was a fairly lengthy quote. 192.35.35.36 (talk) 05:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

So does anyone know just what scandal it is supposed to be satirizing?82.192.146.25 23:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I have modified the layout of the three pictures so that the edit links don't stick together near the bottom of the page. --Iiaiialover 10:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Trivia

{{ trivia |date=October 2007}}

In Steve Allen's routine "The Question Man," in which an answer would be posed and Allen would say the question (as on Jeopardy!,) an answer was given, "The cow jumped over the moon." Allen, as The Question Man, replied, "what happened when lightning struck the milking machine?"

Please do explain that; what is funny about lightning, in this context??

This should reference the diddle article. Further, that article needs much more; there are other definitions. Then, there's doodle.

Thank You,

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 15:10, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Here's my take on this limerick: The moon represents the fundamental flaw. Here mankind designed the wheel using the full moon as a reference, but the moon is not a dish, it is a sphere. I can also imply the cat has a master who plays or IS the fiddle The BOVINE jumped over this whole concept As for the DOG well the dogs of society which exist to this day (the exceedingly rich) I also think the Pied Piper is related to this limerick just a thought not stating fact at all —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serfwrite (talk • contribs) 03:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Astronomy version an unlikely source

I'm deemphasizing the astronomy angle as a possible source (the animals refer to constellations which are only visible at the correct time to plant in England).

While it may be true that the various suggested constellations do appear in the English skies around 10PM in mid-April (or 11PM in March, or 9PM in June...), it is extremely far fetched to think that anyone would use this pattern of constellations to mark anything.

• First of all, Crater and Canis Minor are faint constellations which take more than passing skill to locate in the night sky.
• Second, since Crater is adjacent to Leo, there is no practical reason for including both in a pnuemonic.
• Third, there are many simpler ways to describe this particular orientation of the celestial sphere. To me the most obvious might be the fact that Dubhe and Merak, the pointer stars of the Big Dipper, are standing straight up over the pole star — you don't need a degree is druid astrophysics to find the pointer stars, you can find these on any reasonably clear night (even on those nights you've had too much mead).
• Finally, if you're going to design a celestial clock in the northern hemisphere, you will be drawn to circumpolar constellations because they allow you to read the clock any time of the year, and the bright pointer stars are the easiest to read for this purpose, just as the Big Dipper is the easiest constellation to find in northern skies (with the possible exception of Cassiopeia).

So, unless a credible source to the contrary can be found, I'm demoting this stuff to quirky coincidence. -- 76.202.118.151 (talk) 07:50, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

according to Google Translate

Long live Didur, Didell! 

In the puzzle, the cow jumped on the moon. The dog laughed at the game and left laughter on the spoon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.18.219.55 (talk) 23:41, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Spoken Version

I plan to record a spoken version of the article. I may edit the "Meaning" section because it is a little difficult to follow. Still, all the different theories are amusing, so I plan to leave them all in. Any feedback is welcomed. 0101Abc (talk) 05:38, 19 August 2022 (UTC)