nyaa nyaa/ naa naa (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

I wonder if the Unitarian Universalists ever considered adopting a version of this as their slogan.

LH


On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> My first encounter with either phrase was in a Peanuts cartoon of the
> late '50s. Linus tells the players something like, "The correct phrase
> is 'All, all who are out are in free!'!
>
> I'd revise that (too much education) to "All ye, all ye..." which was
> then shortened to "All ye, all ye out are in free!" and then "...All
> ye, all ye outs (are) in free!"
>
> Could have happened.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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>>> Does the distribution of "Olly Olly Oxen--Free" vs. "Allee allee outs
>>> in free," the formula we used in SE Michigan sixty years ago,
>>
>> Hey, that actually makes sense, the outs being allowed safe passage to come in.  I always wondered about the oxen.  As mentioned, our version was just "All-y all-y in free", which also made sense to us.  (The "in" was stressed for us, but presumably not for the "oxen" and "outs in" folks, so we employed a nice iambic trimeter.)
>>
>> LH
>>
>>> correspond in any way to the distribution of the low back merger?
>>>
>>> Herb
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I remember "Olly Olly Oxen--Free Free Free " as the all clear call to
>>>> the uncaptured in Hide and Seek.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:
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>>>>> Olly-olly oxen free was fine for Hinsdale, IL in 1956.  My wife, from
>>>>> Cleveland, knows olly-olly-umfree (also 1950's)
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>>>>> Paul Johnston
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