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- tumples, on 02/28/2008, -4/+63Dugg for coma sex ¬_¬
- yo_daddy, on 02/28/2008, -0/+45it's a sign, run with it.
- blackbeardtron, on 02/28/2008, -0/+32Did you forget the part where the old lady in the woods finds them and decides they'd make a good meal?
Or that the children escape by... ya know... shoving the old lady in the oven and cooking her alive? - edwartica, on 02/28/2008, -3/+35Wow, they totally left out the part about the dwarves taking advantage of snow white.
- jodofashodo, on 02/28/2008, -0/+32The Little Mermaid's prince marries some other chick, even though she's been walking around on legs that feel like knives...and she ends up just jumping off a cliff and being a spirit that haunts the ocean the rest of her life.
"Unda tha sea" indeed Sebastian, "Unda tha sea" indeed. - bashar129, on 02/28/2008, -0/+32I watched Kill Bill vol 1 for the first time yesterday. I think it's kinda weird how I come across two instances of coma sex in two consecutive days.
- RockMuncher, on 02/28/2008, -0/+31Fairy tales were, for the most part, never meant for children. You had the occasional 'lesson' to scare the living crap out of misbehaving children (IE any child breathing too loudly and not drugged out of their gourds with soothing remedies), but they were primarily political and social commentaries in disguise. Yay symbolism.
--- Although if I never read The Little Mermaid again, it'll be *much* too soon. - blackinthmiddle, on 02/28/2008, -0/+29I was reading Hansel and Gretel to my kids the other day and realized just how screwed up the story is.
-The woodsman and his wife divorce
-They're now having a hard time making ends meet
-The wife says let's leave the kids in the woods
-The man *agrees* with the wife! - pharekyz, on 02/28/2008, -1/+22"Prince Charming is it?... Why don't you have a seat over there."
- Disinterested, on 02/28/2008, -2/+21The girl in the little red riding hood costume is hot as hell
- TonyKay, on 02/28/2008, -2/+20Dugg for Inter-Species Sex Play
- 11familyguy11, on 02/28/2008, -2/+17Does anybody else wish that they knew this back when they were told the story as a child. How awesome would it be spring this on the teller...
- leopardflames, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11you are looking for references on cracked? that's like looking for an ice cream store in greenland....
it's widely known that these stories weren't all watered down as disney has made them. - rholland356, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12Fairy Tales were political and social commentaries in disguise meant for adults? And later generations used them for children.
I guess they were the Looney Tunes of their times! - intekra, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10I was going to worry until I scrolled down and saw the hot girl. You know, the one that is of age. haha
- girlpirate, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9My parents were pretty cool and gave me a book filled with older versions of common and not so common fairy tales. A lot of murder, rape, monsters, evil death inducing dancing shoes and mental stepparents.I was definitely a smart ass about it, I never ruined Santa for anyone but I sure as ***** tainted their fairy tales. the old ones are a better read anyway.
- CedEx, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10I guess you shouldn't read Green Eggs and Ham to your kids, since it's about a drug pusher pushing free drugs to a guy who just says "No!".
- edwartica, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8oh, you've got to read the graphic novel series "fables" sometime then! Snow white and the Big bad wolf, Little miss muffet and the spider. There's a few others as well.
Not to mention that there's only ONE prince charming (married snow white, Cinderella, AND sleeping beauty). - miggie, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8rick roll
- RamesySC, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8You really have to relish the opportunity to Digg about coma sex...
- Amablue, on 02/28/2008, -2/+10These are the versions of the story I will be telling my kids.
- RockMuncher, on 02/28/2008, -7/+15*thinks*
If Ron Paul were president, he wouldn't let the censors force people into changing their stories... unlike every other candidate that ever was and ever will be, forever without end.
Vote Ron Paul! Because corporations do *just fine* without any oversight whatsoever! - Chakat, on 02/28/2008, -0/+8It's cracked, it's not some scholarly research article. Most of the stuff mentioned is documented elsewhere. A quick googling reveals one of the cinderella variants mentioned:
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/grimm/cinder.html
The rest are equally easy. - xstarsprinklesx, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7My 2nd grade teacher actually read us Grimm's Fairy Tales out loud. It was kind of bizarre.
- blinker265, on 02/28/2008, -2/+9the sleeping beauty one sounds like a bad college story
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -0/+7"if the Prince was wandering the land looking for a lady with the perfect "fur slipper" ... well, it doesn't take Freud to figure that one out, and suddenly the Prince doesn't look so noble"
-gives new meaning to the saying: if the shoe fits. . . - inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7Snow White is based off of Scottish folk-lore, well the dwarfs are at least.
- inactive, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7***** it.
- VegaObscura3, on 02/29/2008, -0/+6No, but for some reason people keep saying 1337. I have no idea if its coincidence or if it actually means something.
/joke (for the stupid people) - wastelander, on 02/28/2008, -1/+6So who is the worse dressed Thundercat?
- Arnold22, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5This was the best thing about German class getting to read the originals some of them were just ***** scary. Good time to be a little kid back then.
- MiamiRox, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Wasn't there also some story behind the 3 Billy Goats Gruff?
- accessviolation, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Chill the ***** out.
- edwartica, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4There were actually two snow white fairy tales. One was snow white and the seven dwarfs, the other was snow white and rose red.
- TheNik, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Vagina. You slip your dick in a furry vagina slipper. Holy *****.
- toekneebullard, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4If it's so easy, why shouldn't we expect Cracked to do such easy work and cite their sources?
- AM088, on 02/28/2008, -5/+9[citation needed]
- Elranzer, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Purchase a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales (or look online, they're public domain). All the proof is in the pudding, so to speak.
- bjornski, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I used to have a copy of the complete collection of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" that I would read on the bus. Sometimes, someone would give me crap about reading "fairy tales", and then I'd recite some of the gruesome stories I was reading. Complete with details of blood, breaking bones, murder and treachery.
That normally shut them up pretty quick.
The funniest part is, seeing more copies of it show up on the bus after telling some of these stories. - RockMuncher, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4I'm not sure which version you've heard, I've only read the original version. Well.. the translated original, as the original is Danish. About the only real difference is in the actual troll killing. They tend to leave out the whole "He flew at the troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones" bit.
Here's a link to an annotated direct translation: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/billygoats/
They also have direct versions of many popular tales. Of course, sometimes you have several authors who write down the same tale that's been circulating forever in a culture. - ronaldinho, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Damn, dugg for the sleeping beauty part. The original story - much, much better ending
- bjs3171, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3so...if these original tales were so gruesome, and Hollywood really is out of ideas, why doesn't someone make a horror movie based on the original original gruesome/racy version of one of these? kind of like that Alice video game, but, you know, a movie.
- 4d669, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Hollywood producers are too stupid and unimaginative to think of that, the only way they would start doing it is if a Japanese producer did it. And they would only remake his work anyway.
I can't believe the film industry is so ***** up that they can't even figure out how to copy stuff anymore. - futilitycloset, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=417
- SheilaNoya, on 03/02/2008, -0/+2I have an antique kid's book where the stories were much more gruesome than the version we hear today. An example is the ending of Snow White. Once Snow White recovers, they go find the witch and drag her to the Blacksmith's shop. He heats up some iron shoes and makes her dance in them until she falls down dead, dead, dead.
There are also bedtime poems like:
Here is the candle to light you to bed
And here is the ax to chop off your head - thecheatah, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Iv been having that with the number 144, what time is it 1:44, or 11:44. I find it everywhere. Iv been seeing it for atleast 5-6 years now. Almost any thing that can have 3 digit numbers. I am not superstitious or anything, just saying.
(anyone else see it too?) - XuxiRawe23, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2They WERE the Looney Tunes of their times--except I don't know of many fairy tales that had outrageous racial/ethnic caricatures, had legions of nerdy fans, or featured stories about a horny French skunk who always chased after a painted cat or a coyote chasing after a blue and purple ostrich in the desert...
- CrushThemTorg, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Actually, Heman was transgendered.
- sporg, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2I always enjoyed that Grimm fairy tale where the man has a magic fiddle which when heard by anyone forces them to dance. The man then uses it to force someone to dance while they are in thorn bush. The illustration is hilarious but I cant seem to find it anywhere these days.
- ICanRead, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Ahh, memories from my Nazi Youth...
Joking. -
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