nyaa nyaa/ naa naa (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Barbara Need]

Larry,

Not that I know of!

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna, NY

(an All-y, all-y, in free speaker from near Cleveland in the 60s)

On 14 Feb 2012, at 12:00 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Olly-olly oxen free was fine for Hinsdale, IL in 1956.  My
>>>>>> wife, from
>>>>>> Cleveland, knows olly-olly-umfree (also 1950's)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Johnston

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