It's always amazing to me that certain songs/stories are known by people from all over the world, some with completely different backgrounds. How is it a joke I heard as a kid was a joke heard by a kid in Connecticut? How is it I can meet someone in Virginia today who knows the same stories my Sunday School teacher told me when I was a kid in Wyoming? It just seems strange.
Tiffkin and I found out we both know this random song:
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head
Down came the good fairy and she said
"Little Bunny Foo Foo
I don't want to see you
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head.
I'll give you three chances
And if you don't behaveI'll turn you into a goon!"
The next day:
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice
And boppin' 'em on the head
How is it some random stories/songs travel so well? Any instances where you were surprised someone knew something you knew?
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i'm surprised that so many little girls in indiana, virginia, and all over still know "miss susie had a steamboat," and "miss mary mack mack mack," and "down on the banks of the hanky panky."
hand clap games rock.
i think it's amazing how stories, songs, games, & jokes travel as well. i was surprised when my huz referred to the mixing of various kinds of soda at a fastfood fountain as a "graveyard" when everyone knows that kind of drink is called a "suicide." we told my cousin from california about it and she said it's called a tombstone. or maybe it was cemetary or death or some other morbid name. what do you guys call it? (and, while I know bunny foo foo, i didn't know the line about a goon.)
i don't remember the goon line either. i was thinking she turned him into a toad.
we called it a suicide.
It's a goon. I heard that song too many times...at church. One of the Toddler's church teachers was a preschool teacher and she liked to sing that song with the kids. We told her to change the words and to at least try and make it sound spiritual! The drinks are called "Suicides" at least they were in Kansas. By the way Mrs. BAJ what kind of song is "down on the banks of the hanky panky?"
Is this some kind of song you made up on your honeymoon? If so, don't tell me!
i tried to look it up... i don't think those are the words we used... we had some variation of them. it was a hand clap game. i think we said: "down by the banks of the hank.. pank.. [kinda slurred it] where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank [see that rhymes better]...."
honeymoon games are not shared on blogspot. :)
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