Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Tight

Fri Mar 4 16:21:32 UTC 2005

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 04:55:57 -0800, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>I believe that a Warner Bros. cartoon from ca 1950 has Bugs Bunny chanting,
>
>Acka backa soda cracka,
>Acka backa boo!
>Acka backa soda cracka,
>Out goes you!

Hmm, I don't remember that one.  But I do remember the scene in "Super
Rabbit" (Chuck Jones, 1943) in which Bugs acts like a cheerleader and gets
Cottontail Smith (and his horse) to chant:

Bricka-bracka, firecracka,
Sis boom bah!
Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny,
Rah rah rah!

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/bugs_bunny/ltbb_353.wav

--Ben Zimmer