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Hey! There's no spoiler warning! I was innocently reading along, and suddenly, the whole plot was revealed! Ortolan88

This article is about a story which is too simplistic to rate a "spoiler" warning. There isn't much of a plot. KillerChihuahua^?!? 00:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see someone added a spoiler warning. I couldn't believe there's a spoiler warning on a story like 3 little pigs. Is there anyone on earth over the age of 5 who doesn't already know the story by heart??? Cypherswipe 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"I read somewhere" that this story actually started out as a government-sponsored handbill in England back in the 1600s. The Great Fire of London had just happened and the government was trying to build support for a law requiring all new buildings in town to be of brick or stone (such a law actually was enacted). -- Cranston Lamont 22:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some quick searching on google and google books didn't net me a reliable source for this. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's why it's in the talk section and not in the article. -- Cranston Lamont 03:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep :-) Well, it would be a great fact fr the article if it were verifiable, anyway. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure that it is...

he huffed and he puffed and he blew his house 'in' i am really sure that it is blew his house 'Down'

The passage you're referring to doesn't cite a specific version of the story, so your question can't be answered either way. Since it's a quote, I suppose it should get a "citation needed" tag. GMcGath 21:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Every version I've heard uses 'in'. 'Down' wouldn't rhyme. The house is blown 'in', because the walls are blown 'in', causing it to crumple and collapse. To me, blowing down suggests a tall house that fell over with the force of the wind. Skittle 14:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Originally "Three Little Pigsies"?

Apparently, a very similar tale about Cornish Pigsies (or pixies) appeared in an edition of the "Athenaeum" magazine dated 1846. I can't copy/paste on the system I'm on but google "Three Little Pigsies" and a reference should be easy to find. Gerard.

Removed 'works influenced' sentence

"In the online Chinese idioms dictionary in Taiwan, there had had one of the idioms called "三隻小豬" (Three Little Pigs). However, after found and reported by some news channel, it has been removed."

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone know what it's talking about? Skittle 14:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is the news that the the on-line dictionary of Ministry of Education in Taiwan has some inappropriate content. Somebody had written his viewpoint in the blog. --220.135.148.39 11:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Allegorical?

I heard recently that the story is allegorical to some sort of political situation in Germany, but I haven't been able to find any further information on this other than a vague reference. Does anyone know anything about this? If true, I think it would be worth including in the article as it would give the story some depth beyond a mere children's tale. croll 14:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Origins of tale

The article mentions when the tale may have originated, but does not mention in what country it originated. Someone should include this information in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.27.119.90 (talk) 04:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

A second-grade girl in southern Shanxi Province, China, last year (Year of the Pig) told me the story in Chinese and swore it was a traditional Chinese folk tale. When you think about it, the story must take place in a location where folk wisdom needs to justify building brick houses that can stand up to typhoons or earthquakes or fires, where there are wolves and pigs, where coal or wood smoke goes up a chimney, and where brothers live in separate homes instead of in an extended family or polyandry. Look in history for places and times where these co-existed, there are not many. The tale could have developed independently in several, it is just the sort of thing for grandparents to tell grandchildren.

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Someone please explain how on earth this helps? Stop it please!--Doc^g 00:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not by the hair on my chinnie-chin-chin! --Tony Sidaway 00:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like fallout from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies/Wikipedia:Spoiler warning. But seriously folks, I think Three Little Pigs is past the statute of limitations on spoilers.

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+A second-grade girl in southern Shanxi Province, China, last year (Year of the Pig) told me the story in Chinese and swore it was a traditional Chinese folk tale.  When you think about it, the story must take place in a location where folk wisdom needs to justify building brick houses that can stand up to typhoons or earthquakes or fires, where there are wolves and pigs, where coal or wood smoke goes up a chimney, and where brothers live in separate homes instead of in an extended family or polyandry.  Look in history for places and times where these co-existed, there are not many.  The tale could have developed independently in several, it is just the sort of thing for grandparents to tell grandchildren.
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