In the nursery rhyme, why did the dish run away with the spoon?

Question

In the nursery rhyme, why did the dish run away with the spoon?

Answer 1

lol!

it dosnt really run a away its just a rhyme so they put the dish running away frim the spoon to some how make it rhyme!

Answer 2

because the fork was sticking it to them!

Answer 3

I don't know..why not.. maybe because the cat was playing a fiddle and the cow jumped over the moon and when the little dog laughed..it scared the sh*t out of the dish and the spoon..so they ran away..  or maybe they went to vegas to get married

Answer 4

Because the glass was with the fork

Answer 5

Elizabethan scandal

One theory is that this poem is a satire of a scandal during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. The cat is Elizabeth I and the dog is Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whom she once referred to as her 'lap dog'. It is also speculated that the 'dish' is a server at the royal court, whereas the 'spoon' refers to a taste-tester. When these last two secretly eloped, Elizabeth had them captured and confined to the Tower of London.

Astronomy lesson

According to another theory, the rhyme is a lesson in astronomy, in which all, or nearly all "characters" in "Hey Diddle Diddle" are constellations visible only in the April night sky.

Hey diddle diddle, the Cat (Leo – the Lion) and the Fiddle (Lyra – the Lyre), the Cow (Taurus – the Bull) jumped over the Moon (the Moon); the Little Dog (Canis Minor – the Lesser Dog) laughed to see such sport, and the Dish (Crater – a dish shaped constellation) ran after the Spoon (Ursa Major – the Big Dipper).

It just so happens that April is the only month when all of these constellations can be seen in the night sky, and this was a signal to the early Europeans, mainly the English, that it was time to plant the crops.

Richard III's path to the throne of England

Another theory is that the poem depicts elements in the story of Richard III's path to the throne of England.

'Diddle diddle' was the way he got rid of Edward V. 'The cat and the fiddle' represent William Catesby and the pre-contract. A cow was the Neville emblem. The Nevilles eclipsed the Percys, whose emblem was a moon. Viscount Lovell was Richard's best friend, and his emblem was a dog. The dish was Richard himself, and the spoon was the anointing spoon at his coronation.

Answer 6

because the cup had gotten the fork out of there.

Answer 7

Who knows???

It's a nursery rhyme and they don't have to make sense

Answer 8

why not

Answer 9

For some freaky spoon-on-dish action

Answer 10

It doesn't have to make sense.  It just has to rhyme.

Answer 11

In nursery rhymes, the point is to get the reader and the person/people who is listening to make an inference and think of all sorts of possibility. Nothing could be the correct answer as long as you can support you answer.

Answer 12

attempted rape

Answer 13

hey diddle diddle

the cat and fiddle

the cow jumped over the moon

the little dog lauged to see such sport

and the dish ran away with the spoon.

maybe the dish noticed no one was looking because everyone was watching the cow...