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From: jbcapp <>
Subject: Re: [BS] Family Sayings
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:38:42 -0400
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Yes, from my mother who got it from her mother. Haven't thought about it in
years.

Beth

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Cathy Sisson
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:55 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [BS] Family Sayings

My grandmother always did the gully-gully part when she did it, but my
grandfather wasn't a gully-gully kind of a guy! If he learned it from passed

down sayings from WV, that might explain a lot. My grandfather's grandmother

was from KY, and her folks were from SC (same general neighborhood)!

Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. Moore" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [BS] Family Sayings


> My father in Kansas used that rhyme to delight his grandchildren. I think
> he must have learned it from his father from West Virginia. His version
> went much the same as yours, with these changes:
> Eye-winker
> Tom-tinker
> Nose-dropper
> Mouth-eater
> Chin-chopper
> Gully-gully-gully-gully (gently pinching and tickling the child under the
> chin). They scream with delight!!
>
> Richard Moore
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cathy Sisson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [BS] Family Sayings
>
>
>> Yep, that's me. It's always my fault -- just ask my kids! :) Speaking of
>> rhymes, you know how you point to different parts of the body when kids
>> are
>> really little and say it's name (nose, arm, knee, etc.) to teach them
>> their
>> different parts? My grandfather had a nonsensical thing that he said to
>> all
>> us kids, and it was taught to him when he was little, but he didn't
>> remember
>> who it was that taught him. Starting with the forehead and working down,
>> you
>> touch the body part and say:
>>
>> Fire bender (forehead)
>> Eye-winker (eye)
>> Tom-tinker (other eye)
>> Nose dropper (nose)
>> Mouth-eater (mouth)
>> Chin-chopper (chin)
>> Then you tickle the child under the chin.
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of this or anything like this? I've only met two
>> other
>> people who had a similar saying and they couldn't remember where or when
>> they learned it, or who taught it to them.
>>
>> Cathy
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