Re: Origin of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater??
Posted by Peter on August 08, 2002 at 20:17:10:
In Reply to: Origin of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater?? posted by Sandy on October 28, 2001 at 07:53:15:
Ok, I found this on the web..it's not exactly G-rated, but many of these orgins are not... yet it seems plausable....
Peter was a poor man who had an unfaithful wife. She kept cheating on him (couldn�t keep her), so he had to find a way to stop her running around. His solution, fairly common in the middle ages, was a chastity belt (pumpkin shell). For those who don�t know, a chastity belt is roughly a pair of metal underwear with lock and key, so that no one could come in contact with the private region of the woman except whoever held the key, usually her husband. And as the rhyme goes, once her put her in that belt, he kept her very well.
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