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About five months ago, I heard a song that was probably a song that children used to sing many years ago to tease fat kids, but I was too lazy to write down the words, so now I forgot what it is.

I remember in that TV show Happy Days, Maryanne (sp.) reminds Tom Bosley that when he was a kid, that they used to sing Fat Fat The Water Rat to him, and that show took place in the 1950s, and he probably played someone pushing 50 even though he was older in real life, so that means that the song was sung in the 1920s.

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[nq:1]so that means that the song was sung in the 1920s.[/nq]
Or the teens. I researched the song last week. It didn't occur to me to check the date it was penned.

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[nq:1]About five months ago, I heard a song that was probably a song that children used to sing many years ... 50 even though he was older in real life, so that means that the song was sung in the 1920s.[/nq]
When and where I went to school no one ever teased anyone, so I woudln't know. The worst thing we did was choose up sides for baseball, etc. where someone got chosen last, but there were no snickers or verbal insults accompanying this.
In our class of 30, the same ones every year, we had two girls who never knew the answer to the teacher's questions. One was fat and the other was almost ugly. Everyone waited patiently while they tried to answer. There was another girl who answered the questions ok, and looked ok, but stuttered pretty badly. It took her a long time to get the answer out, but the other 29 of us sat their patiently until she did.
My recollection is that this was true from the first day of the first grade, that the teacher never had to say a word to prevent rudeness. My best friend and I and probably a lot of others had not gone to kindergarden, but maybe there had been some instruction on this during kindergarden to those who went. I don't know. (Actually, my mother later implied there was a kindergarden that we didn't go to, but I never saw a kindergarden class, and there was no other public building it could have met in. Maybe there was no kindergarden at all.)

Our behaviour on the playground was no worse than in class.

All of this was true from the first grade to the middle of the sixth grade when I moved with my family to another state.

In the fifth grade I had already heard or read the expression, several times I think, "Children can be so cruel" and I remember on one occasion it was after school and I even remember where I was standing comparing that with my own classmates and wondering, "I wonder what they mean by that." Because I had never seen it. It was only later, after we had more than one tv station, that I saw movies or tv shows where that kind of unkind, even cruel behaviour in school was dramatized.
This was a town in far Western Pennsylvania with a population of 50,000, in the 50's. It was 1.7 miles from our house to my father's office in the center of downtown. The edge of town was maybe another mile north. The south, east, and west sides of town were even smaller. While I lived on an upper-middle income street, in a small town no neighborhood is very big. So the two upper income streets were only 3 blocks away and there were lower-middle income streets within the area that the school drew from, and tiny little bungalows on side streets. I note income and I deduce what the income was from the size and cost of the houses. Class is not a variable, because as this story shows, all those kids had class.When the high school was having the 25th reunion of the class I would have been in, had I stayed there, I considered it the 31st reunion of my sixth grade class and I went. Counting me, 6 or maybe even 7 of the 30 of us were there. I had a chance to talk for a while to the ugly one who couldn't answer any of the questions. She seemed to be of normal or better intelligence. She and her husband had lived in France for a year or two and she spoke French, she had kids, a career iirc.

I didn't disclose any of the attitudes my best friend and I had about her or others at the time, except very indirectly, maybe asking about other classmates, I may have brought up a couple topics. She said she was incredibly shy when little, and wasn't able to talk in class. She said that her mother never washed her hair, and indeed that was the problem, that her dark wavy, almost shoulder length hair drooped like the hair on a stereotypical witch, not as straight as a witch's, but close.

Yes, that was it. Whatever her face had looked like, the hair caught one's attention and made her look bad.

I asked about teasing in the school, and she said she did get teased in junior or maybe high school for being tall. But at least she and everyone in my class got through the first six or more years without any teasing.
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[nq:1]looked ok, but stuttered pretty badly. It took her a long time to get the answer out, but the other 29 of us sat their patiently until she did.[/nq]
Oy.
[nq:1]In the fifth grade I had already heard or read the expression, several times I think, "Children can be so ... station, that I saw movies or tv shows where that kind of unkind, even cruel behaviour in school was dramatized.[/nq]
In about fifth grade a girl of subnormal intelligence was put in our class. She was teased unmercifully, to the point where she would become hysterical. She was soon removed from the school. Her name was Norma and I've always had a bad feeling about that name.

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[nq:1]About five months ago, I heard a song that was probably a song that children used to sing many years ago to tease fat kids, but I was too lazy to write down the words, so now I forgot what it is.[/nq]
Fatty fatty two-by-four,
Couldn't get through the bathroom door.
So he did it on the floor,
Licked it up and did some more.
Chinese children chant this to a child with a large head:

Da tou, da tou,
xia yu bu chou,
bie ren you san,
ni you DA TOU!
("Big head, big head,
When it rains, don't worry.
Other people have umbrellas,
You have a big head.")

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[nq:2]About five months ago, I heard a song that was ... down the words, so now I forgot what it is.[/nq]
[nq:1]Fatty fatty two-by-four, Couldn't get through the bathroom door. So he did it on the floor, Licked it up and did some more.[/nq]
We merely chanted:
Fatty, Fatty, two-by-four
Can't get through the kitchen door.
Fatty, Fatty four-by-eight
Can't get through the barnyard gate.
We used the nya nya nya nya nya nyaa (nowadays referred to as neener neener. . .I think.)

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[nq:2]About five months ago, I heard a song that was ... down the words, so now I forgot what it is.[/nq]
[nq:1]Fatty fatty two-by-four, Couldn't get through the bathroom door. So he did it on the floor, Licked it up and ... DA TOU! ("Big head, big head, When it rains, don't worry. Other people have umbrellas, You have a big head.")[/nq]
And to tease the youngest in the group;
Baby, baby,
Stick your head in gravy.
Wash it off in Bubble gum.
Send it to the Navy.
To this day I don't understand why bubble gum is a solvent for gravy. Joe

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[nq:1]And to tease the youngest in the group; Baby, baby, Stick your head in gravy. Wash it off in Bubble gum. Send it to the Navy. To this day I don't understand why bubble gum is a solvent for gravy. Joe[/nq]
While we're talking about incomprehensible children's things:

What does "olly olly ox in free" mean, when playing tag?

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[nq:1] While we're talking about incomprehensible children's things: What does "olly olly ox in free" mean, when playing tag?[/nq]
It's for hide-and-seek. It means everyone who is still out (hiding) may come in free without being tagged as found. It is supposed to be "All-ee all-ee outs in free," which is exactly what everyone in my neighborghood always said when I was a child, before a bunch of ignorant people started ******** it up because they couldn't understand plain English.

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[nq:1]While we're talking about incomprehensible children's things: What does "olly olly ox in free" mean, when playing tag? If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)[/nq]
It's "olly olly oxen free". That clear things up?

Wikipedia has an origin, but it's suspect, not worth repeating. Joe

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[nq:1]It's "olly olly oxen free". That clear things up?

Wikipedia has an origin, but it's suspect, not worth repeating. Joe[/nq]
OK. (I agree.) But who has ever played "annie eye over"?

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