This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men In a Tub" is on the docket today. In other words, it's time for another Reason Behind the Rhyme.

If you grew up in the English-speaking world, chances are you’ve heard this nursery rhyme before (probably while you were in ...

Super Rub-A-Dub will cast you in the role of a rubber duck tasked with saving baby rubber ducks by leading them through increasingly complex and infeasible bathtubs to plug-hole exits. The game is ...

The popular nursery rhyme 'Rub-a-Dub Dub Three Men in a Tub' has been suggested to have originally described three gay men. The popular nursery rhyme 'Rub-a-Dub Dub Three Men in a Tub' has been ...

Rub-A-Dub-Dub was a British nursery rhyme TV series animated by Peter Lang and Alan Rogers of the Cut-Out Animation Co. They were previously famous for Pigeon Street. The series was produced by ...

That said, the lyrics of “Rub-a-Dub-Dub” refer to a decidedly adult situation. Oral traditions are thought to go back as far as the 14th century, when tub was a slangy euphemism for brothels ...