And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of ...

There are cats and fiddles, cows jumping moons, dogs giggling, and dishes that run, literally, taking spoons along with them – what’s ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ all about? ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ is an ...

The short, nonsense rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle” might be the most recognizable nursery rhyme of them all. It even gave birth to a common phrase—”over the moon”—which is part of the rhyme, as we’ll see ...

(The tycoon was off, with his army of goons, Searching for oil on Mount Cameroon).

The Government has been ordered to drop two adverts based on nursery rhymes which exaggerated the risks of so-called 'global warming'. Jack and Jill and Rub-a-Dub-Dub had been rewritten to warn ...

Peculiar green pints of ale aside, St. Patrick’s Day down at the pub means music. Virtually every bar with booze behind the counter and a tiny stage in the corner will transform itself into an Irish ...

For Cow Week, NPR's Wade Goodwyn blows the lid off of a children's nursery rhyme. He talks to Modern Farmer correspondent Tyler LeBlanc about... Hey-Diddle, A Fiddle And A Moon-Jumping Cow? NPR Moos ...

You know the nursery rhyme: Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of sorts, and ...

Hey diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed To see such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently ...