Some sayings and games and more from my childhood and older times.
Here's what I knew:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmdit,
his name is my name, too.
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout.
They say, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmdit."
Fa la la la la la la!
Here's the full version:
There was a funny little man who had a funny name
And he was very proud of it 'cause no-one else's was the same
And then one day he left his town to strike out on his own
And met a total stranger a thousand miles from home,
Who said:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!
Da da da da da da da
He took up mountain climbing to scale his way to fame
If he were first to reach the top then all would know his name
Then finally he reached the top, and sat right down and cried
For someone else had beat him, who climbed the other side.
He said:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!
Da da da da da da da
He took an ocean voyage to forget his cares a while
The ship was sunk and he was stranded on a desert isle
He never saw another soul for many years or more
Until he met a native a-walkin' on the shore,
Who said:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!
Da da da da da da da
When he got very old and knew the end was coming soon
He built himself a rocket ship and took off for the moon
He landed in a great big hole, and when he stepped outside
A thousand funny little men ran up to him and cried:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name, too!
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout
There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!
Da da da da da da da
Source: https://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/j009.html
I used to open peanuts up and notice this old man with a mustache therein:
Murgatroyd? Do you remember that word?
Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word, Murgatroyd.
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old, but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory when you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included: Don't touch that dial; Carbon copy; You sound like a broken record; and Hung out to dry.
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker, to straighten up and fly right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat!
Holy Moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley; and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone?
Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills.
This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth.
See ya later, alligator! Okey dokey.
You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!
Source: Facebook post
Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February at twenty-eight,
But leap year, coming once in four,
February then has one day more.
One day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back-to-back, they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
When the deaf man heard this noise,
He got up and killed the two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man. He saw it, too.
(This appears to come from this source.)
Version my wife knew:
Miss Susie had a steamboat.
The steamboat had a bell.
Miss Susie went to Heaven.
The steamboate went to ...
Hello Operator, please give me number nine,
And if you disconnect me,
I'll kick you from
Behind the refrigerator,
There was a piece of glass.
Miss Susie fell upon it,
And broke her little ...
Ask me no more questions.
I'll tell you no more lies.
The boys are in the bathroom
Pulling up their ...
Flies are in the garden.
The bees are in the park.
Miss Susie and her boyfriend
Are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K
Dark, Dark, Dark.
Version I knew:
Nancy had a steamboat.
The steamboat had a sail.
Nancy went to Heaven.
The steamboate went to ...
Hello Operator, give me number nine.
If you disconnect me,
I'll kick you in the
Behind the refrigerator,
There was a piece of glass.
Nancy went to pick it up,
And broke her little ...
Ask me no more questions.
I'll tell you no more lies.
If you don't believe me,
I'll poke you in the eyes.
(And there is a much longer version at NurseryRhymes.org.)