No more "knick-knack," plus, going berserk

Ever since I mentioned to JP that I thought the children's song "This Old Man" was a little pervy, he has disallowed it to be played.

What do you think?

"This old man, he played three, he played knick-knack on my knee..."
"This old man, he played nine, he played knick-knack on my spine...."

And who even knows what door, hive, sticks, heaven and gate could be euphemisms for in the wrong mind.

I don't know about you, but I don't want an old man "playing knick-knack" anywhere near my child. Maybe I'm just paranoid because someone close to me in my family was molested as a child.

Then, I also happened to mention that in the book Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton -- actually one of my favorites and the first of probably many I've memorized word for word -- I told JP one of the hippos gets deflowered.

"Give me that book!" he said. He flipped through the pages. He didn't see anything wrong.

"See?" I said, "The first two hippos? One has a flower behind her ear. And over here on this page, she still has the flower. But after the party, look at all the hippos who leave. None of the hippos is wearing a flower. Sometime during the party, that hippo was deflowered."

JP gives me a look....