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Where were you when you first heard "Batman Smells?" (vanity)

Posted on 12/05/2010 6:27:36 AM PST by MNDude

I'm trying to learn the origins of the playground parody "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg...". What year and where did you first here this parody?


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Oops!!!!
Didn’t see the other Whistle while you work songs.

Cheers!


101 posted on 12/05/2010 12:10:29 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: calex59
"No, but I remember, "When Hitler says we are the master race, I'll spit, I'll spit right in the fuhrer's face"."

Spike Jones recorded that during the war.

102 posted on 12/05/2010 12:48:16 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: MNDude

I think I heard it for the first time yesterday here on FR.


103 posted on 12/05/2010 12:51:09 PM PST by Ditter
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To: MNDude

I’d be curious if anyone at elementary school in the ‘80s sung this to the tune of Frere Jaques:

R2D2, R2D2
C3PO, C3PO
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Princess, too
Princess, too

Or if my schoolmates were just weird....


104 posted on 12/05/2010 12:56:50 PM PST by Eepsy
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Hi Ho Hi Ho
It’s off to school we go

With razor blades and hand grenades
Hi Ho Hi Ho


105 posted on 12/05/2010 12:58:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: mass55th

Yes, I was born in Jan, ‘42 and they were still singing it when I was 7 or 8 years old. Lots of relatives of mine were in the service during WWII.


106 posted on 12/05/2010 1:02:08 PM PST by calex59
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To: Vigilanteman

The television series was from 1966-1968. Guessing it was during that time period.


107 posted on 12/05/2010 1:05:53 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: MNDude

I heard it first after the Batmobile lost its wheels.


108 posted on 12/05/2010 1:08:03 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
Probably in 3rd or 4th grade around 1966/1967.

We are about the same age, but I remember it as Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells..... Rabbits all the way!!!!!!

109 posted on 12/05/2010 1:10:47 PM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: catfish1957

I was driving the family north from Naples to Rome on the Autostrada del sol in about Dec 1976. My sons were singing it. That was the first time I’d heard it. Also heard the “you smelt it, you dealt it,” and “who denied it supplied it” mantra as well.


110 posted on 12/05/2010 1:58:35 PM PST by Ax
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To: MNDude
I would have heard it about 1966, when the TV series showed up on TV. Probably not before that, although the comic books existed.

I heard a little kid singing it today....

111 posted on 12/05/2010 2:00:30 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Ax

“The smeller’s the feller.”


112 posted on 12/05/2010 2:01:23 PM PST by Crawdad (Obamacare will lead to back-alley physicals.)
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To: BenLurkin
“Would I, would I?”

LOL.... wonder how many folks have heard that joke.

113 posted on 12/05/2010 2:03:14 PM PST by r9etb
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To: MNDude

Robert Goulet From the Simpsons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nh2cO38U1U


114 posted on 12/05/2010 2:04:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: Eepsy

I remember the one from the late 60’s from the tune to the western “Branded”:

Stranded.
Stuck on the bathroom bowl.
What do you do when you’re stranded.
And there’s nowhere to go?

You must wipe with your hand
to prove you’re a man.
Stranded.

A buddy of mine’s younger sister was a tom-boy and always wanted to fit in and hang out with us. She bragged that she had “wiped with her hand” to prove that she was “man enough” to hang out with us 4th graders!n (Ewww.....)


115 posted on 12/05/2010 2:09:17 PM PST by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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To: MNDude

I vote for early/middle 60’s. I was still a bit of a kid.


116 posted on 12/05/2010 2:11:46 PM PST by bannie (Gone to seed.)
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To: FrankR

I remember that one, too! We, however, rode in TEACHER’s Chevrolet. ;-)


117 posted on 12/05/2010 2:14:46 PM PST by bannie (Gone to seed.)
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To: mountn man

...I hit her in the bean with a rotten tangerine...
...and her teeth came marching oooooouuuuut.

Then I remember...MUCH later...
“Glory, glory what a heck of a time they had when they tried to make a WAC out of me.”


118 posted on 12/05/2010 2:19:22 PM PST by bannie (Gone to seed.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I remember both that mcdonalds song and the batman one from the playground, early 70s, woodland hills, California.


119 posted on 12/05/2010 2:27:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: bannie

“...I hit her in the bean with a rotten tangerine...
...and her teeth came marching oooooouuuuut.”

When I was but a wee tot (mid-60’s), we used to sing,
“I shot her through the door
With a loaded .44
Now teacher don’t teach no more.”

My husband, who grew up during the same time period, sang of the rotten tangerine as the weapon of choice. Either that or the long-suffering teacher was hit on the butt with a rotten coconut. He was scandalized that, sweet little girl that I was, I sang about bringing a firearm to school.

Anxious to reclaim his illusions that females were the sex of a gentle variety, and that the olden days were a kinder time, he asked my Mom (born in 1935) how she completed the song. She told him, “I think we used the .44, too.”

Hubby grew up a lot that day.


120 posted on 12/05/2010 2:28:34 PM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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