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“Hey Diddle Diddle”

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  1. A nursery rhyme:

    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.


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The float is called “Star Grazers” and is a twist on the “Hey Diddle Diddle” nursery rhyme, only the engineering cows are building jetpacks to jump over the moon.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2021

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