, skipping rhymes tend be found in many different variations.
The following are six 1940s
rhymes from West Los Angeles
, California.
Two girls with a long rope stood about 12 feet apart and turned the rope as other children took turns jumping [I don't recall any boys playing this game!].
...not as much as I am in the metamorphic or sedimentary rock categories. I mean I can take your igneous rocks or leave them. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse-grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned...
Eunice!? That's a person named Eunice?
I love those old Ventegums.
It so happens, Mr. Simon, that Howard has had discussions with Leonard Bernstein about the possibility of conducting an avalanche ... in E flat.
...you are not Burnsy. Burnsy is Burnsy, I mean Eunice is Burnsy, I mean she isn't Burnsy. Nobody is Burnsy.
It's the television set, Eunice. There's a movie on--a war movie. They're getting dressed for the big battle.
Well, there's not much to see actually, we're inside a Chinese dragon.
Why, those are Howard's. What on Earth are you doing with Howard Bannister's rocks?
Don't kick those rocks, you Philistine!
There is an old Croatian saying, Bollixter, which goes...