gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?message-squaremessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareWhat nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months 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-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agorobin’s been laying an egg since at least the 1970s
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months 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.
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.
robin’s been laying an egg since at least the 1970s
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.