Here's a children's rhyme that includes a version of the inky pinky ponky rhyme that Mo posted on

Subject: RE: Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky
From: GUEST,mooseormeece? - PM
Date: 21 May 08 - 11:34 PM

I learned this and forgot most of it (not complete! but it goes sort of like this....
Down by the bay in beverly hills
where the bull frog jumps from bank to banky
and the heeps hops, coffee shops,
we all drink mochas and we wear flip flops
(faster)
I pledge allegence to the flag
Michal jackson makes me gag
coca cola has cafeine and now we're talking billy jean
billy jean when out of style now lets sit and talk a while
diddy diddy donkey
daddy had a donkey
donkey died, daddy cried
diddy diddy donkey!
theres a party round the corner wont you please please come
bring your own cappuchinos and your own chewing gum
what is your boy friends name?______ (whoever the clap lands on has to come up with a name)

_______ will be there blowing kisses in the air saying I love ______ (who ever came up with the name) saying I love_____ saying O U T spells you are out!
OR
______will be there blowing kissed in the air singin' I... Love...Ma..Ma...Mia, singin' I love ma...ma...mia singin' O U T spells you are out!

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This children's rhyme is made up off several strung together-possibly stand alone-rhymes. The rhyme starts with a version of "Down By The Banks of the Hanky Panky", and then moves to lines about Michael Jackson {starting with "I pledge allegiance to the flag". Those lines refer to the real life occurance in 1984. While Jackson was taping a Pepsi ad, special effects that were supposed to create smoke blew up, burning the singer's hair and scalp. Jackson had to be taken to a hospital. [Notice that the rhyme names "Coca Cola" as the soft drink instead of "Pepsi Cola". That's a bit of irony since these soft drinks are competitors].

I'm not sure if Michael Jackson was singing "Billy Jean", one of his hit songs during the filming of that commercial. But reference to that song also occur in most versions of the "I pledge allegiance to the flag" children's rhyme.

The line "diddy diddy donkey" is the beginning of another stand along rhyme that has been strung together to make one rhyme. The last strung together rhyme in this example either starts with the line "theres a party round the corner" or the line "what is your boy friends name?"

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Help! I'm suffering from "Virgoitis" which is exhibited by excessive focus on details.

I'm sorry about that. From now on I'll try to control my tendency to excessively analysis stuff.

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