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Thread #81350   Message #4111153
Posted By: GUEST,Betty Jo
23-Jun-21 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: I'm Rubber . You're Glue: Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: I'm Rubber . You're Glue: Children's Rhymes
Sixteen years later, I'd like to thank Haven for the post:
"What you say is what you are, You're a naked movie star".

When my little brother & I were too young to cross the street by ourselves, we used to sit on the curb with our feet in the gutter exchanging taunts with the military kids from Air Force officer housing across the street.

One taunt we liked to use was "What you say is what you are, like a moving poo-poo star."

It never made any sense, but apparently we had picked up a kid version of the original. We learned it in the mid-1950s on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

(Our beef with the officer kids was their habit of saying "Well, my daddy is a colonel so...")

Also the "Suffocation" song was a parody of a TV commercial for a game called "Fascination".