DMB Digest: My wetware wayback machine
ain't working so great right now.
The internet is failing me. Or perhaps my brain is no longer able to be held together by the internet. I’ve gotten hung up on several phrases and playground rhymes that seem to have vanished, or perhaps I altered over the years. I need your help!
First off, I swear there used to be a cartoon character that would chant, “Bimbo Bim Bam!” But I can’t find hide nor hair of such a character anywhere other than in my memory.
Secondly, am I the only one who remembers the playground rhyme as “Bang, bang, you’re dead. Brush your teeth and go to bed!” It seems the original might have been “bang, bang, you’re dead, 50 bullets to the head.” Honestly, this one makes a ton more sense for children to repeat. The one lodged in my brain surely was a replacement put there by my childhood dental hygienist.
Thirdly, it appears that “cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye” was altered to “cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye” by the character Pinkie Pie on the popular children’s cartoon “My little Pony” sometime around 2016. This alteration appears to have already erased the former renditions and encouraged ocular diabetes amongst grade school children.
Fourthly, I found it quite unsatisfying that no one knows the original source of the phrase, “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” (At least, I can’t determine that anyone knows.) All we can tell for sure is that it was already a thing in the 1930’s.
Lastly, as much as I love the term bric-a-brac, I was quite disappointed to learn it’s origins are French! Those clever frenchies, always talking about their curios and ephemeral oddities. Well, I suppose I’ll give ‘em this one. Bric-a-brac is just too good of word to not co-opt.
Second lastly, am I the only one who got Frick and Frack mixed up with Heckle and Jeckle? I mean, it’s not like Swiss skaters and cartoon magpies are even remotely similar to each other. Wow. I’m not sure I can trust anything from my memory at this point. I think it’s time to take an NFL break. Those guys can’t remember what they had for lunch. Makes me feel better about forgetting what this missive was originally going to be about…
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