MIlk, milk, lemonade....around the corner fudge is made

[pdx_prog]

push the button pull the chain, out comes a chocolate choo choo train.

What are some of your favorite elementary school diddy's?

[SmokingJacket]

1. My five year old said that to me the other day. Yipes!

So I taught him this one

My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes
My mother punched your mother right in the nose.
What color was the blood?
GREEN.
G-R-E-E-N and you are not it!

And this one:

Baby, baby, stick your head in gravy
Wash it out with bubblegum
and send it to the navy!

[pdx_prog]

2. lol...never heard either one of them...:)

[SmokingJacket]

3. I used to jump rope all recess.

We had a million of them.

Cinderella
Dressed in yella
went upstairs to kiss her fella
by mistake she kissed a snake
how many kisses did it take?

Miss Susie had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
Miss Susie went to heaven
the steamboat went to
Hello operator
Please give me number nine
if you disconnect me
I'll cut off your
Behind the frigerator
there was a piece of glass
Miss Susie sat upon it
and broke her big fat
Ask me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the kitchen
Letting down their
Flies are in the kitchen
Mother's making soup
Along comes the dog and lets out a
Poop, poop, poopy doop.

Damn. I can't believe I remembered the whole thing.

[Marnieworld]

4. How old are you and where did you grow up?

Me I'm 33, NJ and I knew those songs too except I think Miss Lucy had the steamboat. I loved that one.

[SmokingJacket]

7. 37 and New York.

Sometimes I think it would be fun to be a folklorist, and map out and track all the kid rhymes and variations.

[Marnieworld]

8. See? I had a feeling it was regional.

I bet a lot of the rhymes have some strange origins like ring around the rosey about the plague. We were singing some weird shit back then.

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. gotta protect yourself from cooties

circle, circle
dot dot...
now I've got the cooties shot

it was a lifesaver...did you know that cooties infects 1 out of every 5 elementary school children? But I was spared!

[WeRQ4U]

6. JUst some of the general favorites

LIar Liar
Pants of fire
Nose as long as a telephone wire
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On top of old smokey
All covered with sand
I shot my big teacher
With a red rubber band
I shot her with glory
I shot her with pride
How could I miss her
She's forty feet wide

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When someone would ask what time it was, we would reply

"Half past a monkey's ass........quarter to his balls"

[Texasgal]

9. How fun!!

I remember this little diddy:

I like to go swimmin'
with bold legged wimmin'
and swim between their
legs!

Here's another fave:

Jingle bells, batman smells
Robin layed an egg!

Batmobile lost it's wheel
and the joker got away......HAY!

[youthere]

10. Holy Buckets!

I haven't heard some of these for years!
How about:

_____ and ________ sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes __________
with a baby carriage
that's not all
that's not all
here comes the baby with a basketball
thats not all
thats not all
here comes a baby drinking alcohol
sucking it's thumb
peein its pants
doing the hula hula dance.


OR

we're going to Kentucky
we're going to the fair
to see the senorita with flowers in her hair
so shake it baby shake it
shake it all you can
shake it like a milkshake
and drink it if you can
so rumble to the bottom
rumble to the top
turn around and turn around until she hollers STOP.

OR

Me chinese
me play joke
me go pee pee in your coke.

[pdx_prog]

13. Them are great...:)

[pdx_prog]

11. What about....

N E S T L E S....what comes out my A S S....


CHOCOLAAAATTEEEE....

[Purrfessor]

12. My 7 year old and 9 year old are in cheerleader camp this week

so I created this cheer for them to share with their camp leaders and fellow campers.

It's a football cheer to be used whenever their team is losing.

The Wedgie Cheer

Time to get up
Time to go
Time to stop them don’t you know

So gather round
Listen close
This is how we take control

Grab them by the ankles
Grab them by the knees
Grab them by the underwear
And give them wedgies.


I doubt that my daughters will share this cheer with anyone. Sometimes they act as if they are embarrassed by me. Oh, well.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I don't think my kids woulda used that cheer either, BUT

have you heard the "Hey cheerleaders" one where all the cheerleaders kinda dance around? We ran into it last year at competition and since none of my kids knew it they made up a response.

We don't know the words, clap, clap, clap
We don't know the words, clap, clap, clap
We don't know the words, clap, clap, clap

So STOP! *g*

Here's a page of pics from when we went to camp a couple of weeks ago. It was a blast, but I feel badly for anyone trying to do it in this heat. (We got lucky weatherwise.)

http://www.geocities.com/aesphotos0405/camp05.htm

[Purrfessor]

17. I'm not too familiar with the various cheers.

Being a dad may have something to do with it. I like the reponse cheer your kids created.

Where was this camp by the way? My daughters are in an indoor day camp, a place that has an indoor soccer field, so at leat it's air conditioned?

Though the weather here SF bay area, hasn't been too hot in the past few days.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. We were at a camp here in Maine on a small college campus, but

were only in te gym in early morning and the evenings. Most classes were conducted outside on the football and soccer fields. We went through a lot of sunscreen in those few days!

[SmileyBoy]

14. Joy to the world, (insert kid's name here) is dead...

We barbecued his head...
He said that we were naughty,
So we flushed him down the potty,
And listened to him scream,
And listened to him scream,
And listened and listened to him scream!!

[eleny]

16. Here's one

I see London
I see France
I see ____'s underpants
Not too big
Not too small
Just the size
Of a cannon ball!