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Posted by librarytalker@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 48 comments
Did we really chant about an old man dying of an untreated head injury?
Seriously?!?
Posted by librarytalker@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 48 comments
Did we really chant about an old man dying of an untreated head injury?
Seriously?!?
CrazyButterfly11@reddit
I remember worse! Did anyone else ever do “Chinese, Japanese, Dirty Knees… look at these”! Then you flashed your friends?
It’s so horrible to realize how awful that really was! Where were our parents at?? Oh wait never mind…
CreepingDeath-70@reddit
OMG! I had totally forgotten about that one. You might have unlocked a part of my brain I would rather have remained closed, lol!
iloveairportsushi@reddit
Core memory unlocked 🤣
CrazyButterfly11@reddit
I’m not sure if I should say: I’m sorry 🫣 or you’re welcome 😉
iloveairportsushi@reddit
🤣
AJM_1987@reddit
Milk, milk, lemonade…
CrazyButterfly11@reddit
Round the corner…
this_kitty68@reddit
Fudge is made.
Truth_and_Soul@reddit
Me Chinese me play joke, me do pee pee in your Coke!
Terrible_Ad_4150@reddit
On the other side of Mars where the ladies smoke cigars...
tranquilrage73@reddit
We said, " ... he went to bed and bumped his head and he won't get up 'till morning."
He didn't die in our version.
Fitz_2112b@reddit
On our version he went to bed and didn't get up in the morning
Square_Medicine_9171@reddit
Our version varied between “didn’t get up in the morning” and “didn’t get up til the morning”
Fun-Position7750@reddit
My version he bumped his head. Peed his bed and couldn’t get up in the morning. Huh. Weird
SaucyFingers@reddit
He lived in our version too - “conked his head, went to bed, woke up in the morning.”
Shopworn_Soul@reddit
It was always just a funny rhyme until one day I woke up and learned it was Bob Saget
OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
random420x2@reddit
As a small child I was horrified by the Lady Bugs house burning with her kids in it. 🤷
surfinbird@reddit
🎶The old man needs a CPAP machine 🎶
Upset-Diamond2857@reddit
Get your ass in the house
CreepingDeath-70@reddit
We actually sang worse stuff than that, too...remember the original version of Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe that many of us learned? Lord we had no idea what we were saying as kids...I'm still appalled.
Clembert-Hamlamp@reddit
They were often like that. Fucking grim lol. Pocket full of posies might not actually be about the plague but Humpty Dumpty is a bit bleak and that baby in a cradle falling out a damn tree? Sweet dreams kid. Supposedly it's puritan flavored. All about saving the soul not coddling the baby.
tranquilrage73@reddit
We had a lot of those kinds of songs ... which most of us learned from our parents. smacks head
Beginning-AD1992@reddit
sleep apnea is nothing to joke about either!
StOnEy333@reddit
Jack and Jill went up the hill, each with a buck and a quarter.
Jill came down with $2.50, OHHHHH!
Constant_Coconut7562@reddit
I am Siamese if you please
MasterChiefette@reddit
Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down!
This was from people in the Medieval times dying of the Plague and being cremated.
Patient_Doctor4480@reddit
And Jack fell down and broke his crown...
Jason_TheMagnificent@reddit
Not to mention ring around the Rosies is about the bubonic plague
ophymirage@reddit
Folklorist says nope, this is debunked. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/
Krunchy_Frogg@reddit
“The old man is snoring”
Empty_Nestor@reddit
Bad enough the poor old bugger already had sleep apnea and the weather was shit.
Dextropic@reddit
I know! My knee is acting up.
PepperCat1019@reddit
Get off my lawn
Solid_Association_49@reddit
Damn kids…
GooseySill@reddit
Explains a lot about why we are the way we are now. Ha ha!
MaximumJones@reddit
I mean, rockabye baby is a song about an infant falling to it's death when a tree branch breaks so... 😳
OtakuTacos@reddit
“Your mom is out whoring.”
I learned some bad stuff in Jr. High.
Ornery_Old_Man@reddit
Hey you kids, quit that singing.
I'm trying to sleep.
Intelligent_Cry_8846@reddit
I never thought of him as dying...just overslept 'in the mornin' bc of all that snorin. He probably uses his CPAP now, so there's that.
kevbayer@reddit
He bumped his head then he went to bed and didn't wake up the next morning.
Phantomtastic@reddit
I only remember him snoring.
Some_Marsupial_7311@reddit
Bumped his head, went to bed, couldn't get up in the morning.
Yep.
Matookie@reddit
In my home, he could not "get up to pee in the morning." FTFY 😄
OkElephant1931@reddit
He went to bed…
kadora@reddit
In French no less!
hapster85@reddit
We sure did 😂
Majik_Sheff@reddit
Sounded like a serious concussion to me. That song is terrible medical advice.