Choosing who is "it" in kiddie games...

[Shell Beau]

Do you remember these:

Inky binky bonky
Daddy had a donkey
donkey died
daddy cried
inky binky bonky


Bubblegum bubblegum in a dish
how many pieces do you wish?

Of course
Innie minnie miny moe
catch a tiger by his toe
if he hollars make him pay
50 dollars every day
My momma told me to pick the very best one
and you are not IT!!!!

[dannofoot]

1. Ours was...

...
inka-binka
bottle of ink
the cork fell out
and you stink!

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. my mother and your mother were hanging out clothes

my mother punched your mother right in the nose
what color was the blood...

One potato, two potato, three potato, four
five potato, six potato, seven potato, more (out)

[Shell Beau]

3. Yeah, I remember those! I forgot! Ha, kids

are so silly!

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. We did seven potato or...

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

4. Does anyone remember

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac
All dressed in black, black, black.
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents.
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high
They reached the sky, sky, sky
They never came back, back, back
Till the 4th of July, July, July.

And

I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
OUCH! It stung me!

I'm squishing up my baby bumble bee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me...

[Left Is Write]

17. Another one along the lines of Miss Mary Mack...

Say say oh playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rain barrel
Onto the cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forevermore more more more more more

We did that one and Miss Mary Mack a lot at the lunch tables when I was in elementary school.

[Shell Beau]

22. I don't know that one.

Do you remember..

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
So Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
So Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

And so on and so on!

[Left Is Write]

25. Oh, yes. That one's as old as dirt!

:)

[woo me with science]

44. and the evil counterpart....

Say say my enemy
Come out and fight with me
And bring your monsters three
Climb up my poison tree
Slide down my razorblade
Into my dungeon door
And we'll be enemies
Forever more more more more.

[Left Is Write]

46. There's another one too...

About being too sick to come out and play, but I can't remember how it goes.

[kitkatrose]

33. My mom taught me an add on to Miss Mary Mac.

3, 6, 9, the goose drank wine
the monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line
the line broke,
the monkey got choked,
and they all went to heaven in a little row boat.

Man, I remember a lot of these. I guess that means I was normal? :)

[WCGreen]

5. The biggest guy in the neighborhood would go around...

Smackin' kids in the arm, the first one that cried was it....

[Shell Beau]

6. Sounds like my oldest brother!!

Good thing I was a tough kid.

[xmas74]

8. My cousin pinched until she drew blood.

If you cried you were it.
She used this same method to decide who would eat her culinary creation of bird berries mixed into a mud and dog crap pie.

[WCGreen]

14. Man that sounds like Earle... On that new NBC show...

[xmas74]

18. I haven't watched it yet.

She was just a mean kid who didn't care what anyone else thought. And now she wants to be a mother.
Can you imagine her spawn?

[WCGreen]

26. Yea, and it's living in the white house....

[xmas74]

40. She'd be proud of that.

She voted for him twice in between her spa appointments (she's a frequent goer.

[WCGreen]

42. Spa's are refreshing, I hear tell.......

Wouldn't know, can't afford one...

[pdx_prog]

36. lol...my cousin came to visit one summer and he did that constantly

He threw a piece of linoleum tile at my neighbor and hit him in the head with it. That was the last straw....we got about 5 kids together and beat the crap out him....man did I ever get it!

[WCGreen]

43. Visiting cousins never quite fit in now do they....

What seemed quirky at grandma's house is down right wierd when you are at home...

At least in my experience...

[imperialismispasse]

7. If I remember right the origens of the last one is racist

[Shell Beau]

10. Hmm, never heard that before.

What is racist about its origins? Please provide some info.

[no name no slogan]

12. Replace the word "tiger" with another word that ends in "ger"

and begins with "n". There's your racist origin.

[Shell Beau]

13. Is that what the saying used to be or someone

thought they got creative and added it in its place?

[no name no slogan]

16. My grandfather remembers saying it back in the 20s like that

besides, how many tigers do you know that carry money around with them? ;)

[Shell Beau]

19. None, but I mean none of these sayings ever

actually made sense! :)

[Left Is Write]

21. Yes, that's what it was originally.

It dates back at least as far as my grandmother's time.

[Shell Beau]

23. Well, good thing most kids don't know it has/had

racist connotations. I sure didn't. :shrug: Now I know.

[Left Is Write]

27. I didn't know while I was a child either.

It's something I learned as an adult.

[Shell Beau]

30. I guess I did too! I just never really

thought about it I suppose.

[underpants]

9. FREAKS! it was Eeny meeny miny mo

the controversy came when you got

My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are NOT it

sometimes wisenacres would try to skip the NOT part which of course completely changes the outcome. We argued about that too.

[Shell Beau]

11. Yeah, the last part would sometimes get you!!!

In the south we say "innie, minnie, miny, mo" :P

[Left Is Write]

15. Engine, engine number nine, going down Chicago line...

if the train should jump the tracks, do you want your money back, yes, no, or maybe so?

Mickey Mouse built a house. How many bricks did he use?

Inka dink a bottle of ink, the cork felt out and you stink. Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, just because you kissed a boy behind a magazine.

[Sandpiper]

20. 1-2-3...

Not It!!!

[Shell Beau]

24. Did you ever say

Olly olly oxen-free? Which meant you were on home base.

[bleedingheart]

28. fuzzy wuzzy was a bear

fuzzy wuzzy had no hair...
(the rest I forget)

[Left Is Write]

32. "fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?"

[redqueen]

29. Ooh I love this thread!

I can't remember any that haven't already been done... but I grew up in TX and we said eeny meeny... so... FWIW.

[Shell Beau]

31. Well, that is what Underpants said too, but

it is easier to say "innie minnie" so therefore deep southerners said that. At least in the delta of Mississippi.

[redqueen]

34. I heard one with a different beginning

that went "not because it's dirty, not because it's clean"... but I can't remember it... it's driving me nuts!

[Shell Beau]

35. Just b/c I kissed a boy behind a magazine

I don't remember the rest

[Left Is Write]

38. Here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4171001&mesg_id=4171245

[redqueen]

39. Thanks!

I saw this earlier, and that's what jogged my memory... but the one we said started out differently... ooh this is gonna bug me for a while. x(

[trof]

41. Ipsy dipsy soda cracker

Does your papa chew tobacco?
Yes, my papa chews tobacco.
Ipsy dipsy soda cracker,
O-U-T- spells OUT!

[woo me with science]

45. My mother your mother live across the way

1415 East Broadway
and every night they have a fight and this is what they say
Icka backa soda cracker
Icky backa boo
Icka backa soda cracker
Out goes YOU!

........

Call the army call the navy
Jenny's gonna have a baby
Wrap it up it toilet paper
Send it down the elevator
ONe two three four five....How many babies will she have
six seven eight nine ten...

[Shell Beau]

47. Have to say I never have heard those!

:)