"Stinky pinky"

[Peter A. McGraw]

Too bad you and your friends saw no connection.  If you had, you would've
had a perfect "stinky pinky."

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:05 PM -0400 "Baker, John"
<JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:

>         I can only say that my friends and I saw no connection.  I'm just
> trying to recover from the shock of learning that some people called the
> game "stinky pinky."  I wonder which version was first.
>
>         Apparently the game is also called "rhyming buddies," another
> name that is new to me.  A Google search suggests that the three names
> are of comparable popularity.
>
> John Baker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Beverly Flanigan
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:33 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "Stinky pinky"
>
>
> So is "hanky panky" related to this "game"?  I'm thinking of Wilson's BE
> pronunciations.
>
> At 02:52 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
>>         When I learned this game (when I was a freshman in college, from
>> another freshman), we called it "hinky pinky."  The choices were hink
>> pink for one-syllable rhymes, hinky pinky for two-syllable rhymes, and
>> hinkety pinkety for three-syllable rhymes; I don't recall ever having any
>> four-syllable rhymes.  The only example I remember is "Hink pink:  an
>> oblong spheroid."  The answer, of course, is "a tall ball."
>>
>> John Baker



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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