Comments on: Childhood Phrases

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:28:55 +0000

I remember a game we used to play often while waiting in line and such, goes like this:

Dot, Dot, Line, Line, Spider Crawling up your spine, Crack an egg on your head n’ let it run until your dead, tight squeeze, cool breeze, now ya got the shiveries~

We had many little games like that. :3

By: Joel R

Joel R — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:09:10 +0000

I like that! The childhood of the people is even similar anywhere in the world. This proves that the essence of all human beings are alike. (Joel,from Brazil)
“Life is the childhood of immortality.”
Johann Goethe

By: Helen Keegan

Helen Keegan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:12:40 +0000

Just spotted you’re using one of my old 80s pics for the ‘cool’ definition. I think I’m flattered.

Enjoyed the blog post too

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:27 +0000

so yesterday I was in the park
and we were cursing a lot because we just got in a fight with some kid
and a little girl came up to me
and said I cursed too much
I was just like, “Mhm. You probably will too when you’re older.”
she held up her finger and her thumb and said she called me that.
I said, “You called me a loser?”
she said “No. I went like loser, loser, double loser, as if, whatever, get the picture, duh.”
my friends and I just looked at her for like two minutes with the most baffled look on our faces
before we fell on the floor laughing.

By: Zeromous

Zeromous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:16:50 +0000

Hey wasn’t trying to be a jerk folks, just pointing out X rules Y drools.

(there’s another one for you)

Totally!

By: Andrea G

Andrea G — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Zeromous! You definitely have a point saying that a lot of these were from Generation X or before, but you have to admit that most of these phrases and words are probably still used by kids today. I’m not saying these were “originals,” just phrases that were my favorite as a kid!

and if you are a fan of Cootie Shots, Kaylea, check out this hilarious video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ylxWcwkUM

By: Kaylea

Kaylea — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:28:32 +0000

Hmm…someone’s a jerk, Zeromous! Just because Gen-X came up with them doesn’t mean that Gen-Y didn’t also use them excessively — they can belong to both groups.

Anywho, the “Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot, Now You’ve Got Your Cootie Shot” was always a favorite of mine.

By: Zeromous

Zeromous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:18:40 +0000

Being 30 this year, I can pretty much say with certainty these are gen-X phrases.

Its pretty much agreed, GenX was 1969-1979.

Pass-it-on and I’m rubber/You’re glue for instance was firmly entrenched in my kindergarten class and any Y-ers that came after likely learned it from their older siblings.

Duh, Cool, Shut up (I don’t like shut-up I like…), Like, Loser all firmly belong in the 70s, and were used well into the 80s by gen-xers.

Oh and this was in Canada, where we are like, 2-3 years behind the curve, especially back then when we didn’t get US television very much. Totally.

Totally…yes now there’s a Gen Y clueless-ism.