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Three Blind Mice

The three blind mice

2 votes

The farmer's wife

6 votes

Mistakes were made, they're both at fault

2 votes

I'm not here to talk about the past

7 votes

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2009 07:15 AM

Are the mice chasing the farmer's wife because she cut off their tails? Or did she cut off their tails in self-defense, because they were chasing her?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 02 2009 07:23 AM

If this is the kind of quiz you intend to write for irritating Facebook apps, I'm a Fan.

Edgy DC Apr 02 2009 07:30 AM

This is actually a historical question, sez wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Blind_Mice

metirish Apr 02 2009 07:33 AM

I'm not here to talk about the past - love it

soupcan Apr 02 2009 07:37 AM

They're blind! How are they even gonna see the wife, let alone chase her?

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2009 07:38 AM

My impression has always been that the farmer's wife was cruel and the mice were seeking vengeance.

Rockin' Doc Apr 02 2009 10:44 AM

The farmer should get a cat, that would fix those mice.

Centerfield Apr 02 2009 11:03 AM

If the tail cutting had preceded the chasing, the lyrics would say: Who had previously cut off their tails with a carving knife. The mice started it. Now, whether the severity of the punishment was reasonable in light of the nature of the crime is another story...

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2009 11:07 AM

Duh, it's George Bush's fault. And Cheney, and Madoff, and GM, plus all those AIG guys and CitiCorp. Oh yeah, and Jeff Wilpon.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 02 2009 11:43 AM

="soupcan"]They're blind! How are they even gonna see the wife, let alone chase her? As a mammal of limited eyesight, I resent your implication that sightless mice are somehow unable to chase, menace or otherwise live productively in house-mouse society, simply because of their disability. I resent it hard. Besides, farmers' wives are generally fat.-- they could probably feel or hear her coming/going a room away. NO ONE DENIES THIS.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2009 02:29 PM

="Rockin' Doc":1dmppor8]The farmer should get a cat, that would fix those mice.[/quote:1dmppor8] Anyway, the way to "fix" a mouse isn't to cut off its tail. You need to go for the testicles or the uterus. cooby Apr 02 2009 06:31 PM THE POor little things, blind and now in such pain as well. themetfairy Apr 02 2009 07:17 PM This is why everyone loves cooby - she's so nice. Even to rodents. cooby Apr 02 2009 08:56 PM well, mice are so cute! TheOldMole Apr 06 2009 04:39 PM I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" And I start wondering how they came to be blind. If it was congenital, they could be brothers and sister, and I think of the poor mother brooding over her sightless young triplets. Or was it a common accident, all three caught in a searing explosion, a firework perhaps? If not, if each came to his or her blindness separately, how did they ever manage to find one another? Would it not be difficult for a blind mouse to locate even one fellow mouse with vision let alone two other blind ones? And how, in their tiny darkness, could they possibly have run after a farmer's wife or anyone else's wife for that matter? Not to mention why. Just so she could cut off their tails with a carving knife, is the cynic's answer, but the thought of them without eyes and now without tails to trail through the moist grass or slip around the corner of a baseboard has the cynic who always lounges within me up off his couch and at the window trying to hide the rising softness that he feels. By now I am on to dicing an onion which might account for the wet stinging in my own eyes, though Freddie Hubbard's mournful trumpet on "Blue Moon," which happens to be the next cut, cannot be said to be making matters any better. Billy Collins holychicken Apr 06 2009 05:27 PM This story is not adding up. How in the hell do you get chased by three blind mice? I think she is hiding something.