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Thread #104417 Message #2138360
Posted By: Azizi
01-Sep-07 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Puddin Tane & Other Rhyming Sayings
Subject: RE: Folklore: Puddin Tane & Other Rhyming Sayings
Here's a repost of some examples of these two person sayings/rhymes that I shared in another Mudcat thread:
Subject: RE: I'm Rubber . You're Glue: Children's Rhymes
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:09 PM
...When I was growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s I remember hearing and saying: "What's your number? Cucumber".
[and]
Where you live?
In a sieve.
-snip-
This pattern of short rhyming sentences is very much a part African American [and others] oral tradition.
Here's some additional examples of jive talk used by children, youth,and adults:
See ya later, alligator.
After while, crocodile?
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What's the word, mocking bird?
What I said, cabbage head.
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If I'm lyin I'm flyin.
[and] grits aint groceries
and Mona Lisa is a man.