A children's punning/rhyming game

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Sat Jul 24 02:49:00 UTC 2004


Wilson Gray wrote:
> On my very first day in the first grade 1942 in Saint Louis, I was
> victimized by the following word game:
>
> Q. What's your name?
> A. Putting and ta'en!
>       Ask me again
>      And I'll tell you the same.

I've heard of it, though I've never heard it myself; my impression was
that the first line of the answer was "Puddin' tame".

Jim Parish



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