nyaa nyaa/ naa naa

[Victor Steinbok]

I thought I'd posted this already, but I can't find it.

A clear example of the meter in the "naa-naa" etc. case can be found in
The League of Their Own. The kid (who tags along with his player-mother)
chants during a game

'You're 'gonna 'loo-'ooze! You're gonna loo-ooze!

--until someone bonks him on the head. He then reproduces his one-liner
as an adult during the encounter at the Hall of Fame.

     VS-)

On 2/15/2012 11:00 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at stanford.edu>  wrote:
>
>> to the (minor) tune
>>
>>   3 1-4 3 1
>>
> Just getting around to this thread.  I've never heard this in minor, but
> always in major like this:
>
> 5 3-6 5 3
>
> --
> Randy Alexander

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