enie menie minie mo

[thegeorge]

I am wondering if anyone knows the little rascals version of the above poem

[Redwing24]

If I am not mistaken it goes like this:

Mary had a litlle lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
If he hollers let him go
Eenie meenie minie mo

It followed her to school one day
It was against the rules
If he hollers let him go
Eenie meenie minie mo

I remember this one. I do not know if this is the one you mean. I think this poem is said by one of the reascals at the front of a scoolroom and Stymie looks confused by the mix up of two poems.

Hope this helps

[Bobbi]

Hi I don't know if this is the one either but I will give it a shot

ifty mifty figgity f*g
al dal roman egg
erky perky stone rock al dal tush

This one I remember from when I was about 20 years ago Im not sure if it was from the little rascals or not ,but that is what we use to say when we were playing dukes out to see who counts first in hide and seek

let me know

Bobbi

[Buppster]

Funny, when I was at school kids often used this very old chant.

Eenie, meanie, macker acker
Air eye domino,
Alla Balla Gloriar
Rum tum tish, out.

It seems to have stemmed from distorted versions of Latin words, presumably misheard during mass at church, I'd assume, back in the days when the mass was still said in Latin.

[myhomeo]

The one I remember from childhood is 'Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eenie meenie miney mo.'

It's a slightly sanitized version of a previous chant, where 'tiger' replaced an insulting term for African-Americans.

[Buppster]

Yep, some kids did use the unexpurgated version of Eenie Meany Miney Moe, when I was at school too. I guess they didn't consider it offensive as there were essentially no ethnic minority pupils in attendance at the school to be offended by it.

[marktheshark]

Oct 30, 2018 13:46:50 GMT -5 Buppster said:

Yep, some kids did use the unexpurgated version of Eenie Meany Miney Moe, when I was at school too. I guess they didn't consider it offensive as there were essentially no ethnic minority pupils in attendance at the school to be offended by it.

I always heard it as "catch a tiger by the toe," and was kind of shocked when I heard the other version later. I'm 50.

[RJH]

Nov 15, 2018 22:35:34 GMT -5 marktheshark said:

I always heard it as "catch a tiger by the toe," and was kind of shocked when I heard the other version later. I'm 50.

That was also my experience, though I'd rate my shock as greater.

[rascalstooge]

I first heard the version with the "N" word in some public service announcement-forget what it was for-on TV in the late '60s-early '70s period.