[Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952): variants

[Amy West]

On 1/28/20 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:51:46 -0500
> From:    Mark Mandel<markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: monkey in the middle (1952)
>
> I do not like the memories this brings up in me.
>
> I knew the expression all too well as a schoolboy in New York in the 1960s.


I grew up in Buffalo, NY and in New Britain, CT and then raised my own 
kids in Putnam, CT and Worcester, MA:

It was "monkey in the middle" in Buffalo; but in CT & MA, I encountered 
it as "pickle in the middle."

And usually it was a sibling-involved torment  . . .

---Amy West

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