gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?message-squaremessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up127
arrow-up127message-squareWhat nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square36linkfedilink
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoAh. You’re from the post-Simpsons generation. Prior to the Simpsons writers popularising the egg line, the most common version had “Robin flew away”. Where I am, the next lines usually had Batman losing his underpants in a location that rhymed with “(a)way”, most often a motorway.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoTom Scott did an entire video about this. That the UK has endless versions, but the US has been “laid an egg” for basically all of living memory.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agorobin’s been laying an egg since at least the 1970s
Jingle bells Batman smells…
Robin laid an egg
Ah. You’re from the post-Simpsons generation. Prior to the Simpsons writers popularising the egg line, the most common version had “Robin flew away”.
Where I am, the next lines usually had Batman losing his underpants in a location that rhymed with “(a)way”, most often a motorway.
Tom Scott did an entire video about this. That the UK has endless versions, but the US has been “laid an egg” for basically all of living memory.
robin’s been laying an egg since at least the 1970s