oh, and...

[spatch]

00. Apropros of absolutely nothing that's been written earlier today no sir I have this particular Elementary schoolyard taunt stuck in my head, all singsong-like:

Kindergarten baby
Stick your head in gravy
Something something something something
And sell it to the Navy

It's no Ogden Nash -- I mean, really, rhyming "baby" with "gravy" and later on, "Navy"? At best, one can describe it as a flawed masterwork. No doubt some 7-year-old was very proud of themselves the day they chose to denigrate their Kindergarten brethren and sistren (sistern?) but the fact remains that I can't for the life of me remember the third, and probably critical, line in the quatrain. All I can come out with is "wash it out with sauerkraut" and while it's a nice advanced internal rhyme, it just doesn't jibe as it should. Any suggestions?

01. I also realized today that, when you think of it, "velveeta" is a truly obscene word. That is all.

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[nolly.livejournal.com]

I learned it as
"All around the cobbler's bench
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey though 'twas all in fun --
POP goes the weasel"

[gudriba.livejournal.com]

Hmm. My childhood one goes:

A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.

Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop! goes the weasel.

(As well as the cobbler's bench verse.)

Pop = pawnbroker's shop, and weasel = either a cobbler's tool, or a winter coat ("weasel and stoat"). Yay Cockney! :)