So there’s this old guy hanging around our place, playing this “knick-knack” game on damn near everything- my shoe, my knee, the door, whatever. He even went so far as play this knick-knack up to heaven.
What’s this guy’s game?
Darn good question! I thought he was playing “two”, but when I looked again he was playing “three”! Mayhap time for Jack Bauer to intervene? :eek:
I swear I saw him whacking someone’s paddy.
Don’t know what he’s doing, but he sure is good looking. He’d give a dog a bone.
So does that cackling hussy, Old Mother Hubbard. My neighborhood is really taking a dive.
But seriously, this is driving me crazy. What is it to play knick-knack?
Dry-humping, maybe?
well i know knick-knacks are like small ornaments or just general small things people accumalate… ie: i have a draw full of knick knacks or tat. paddywhack is an unedible part of a cow, so it ties in with ‘give the dog a bone’… and not that small piece of rubbery paddywhack. possibly.
Damnit, it got moved. Someone very MODern sucks around here.
I wanna know what this is! Can’t sleep! Bugging me! Was a serious question!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!
Is torture in my brain meats!
Lyrics and sound: This Old Man
Pete Seeger gave the song life in the US with his 1953 recording.
This feisty discussion refs the song in England back to 1911, maybe earlier. It may be derived from ‘Old Joe Padlock’.
I thought the old man’s name was Paddywhack, but there seems a wealth of speculation on what that means.
The OP wasn’t very clear, so I moved this to MPSIMS>
Now that I see you are really asking a GQ, perhaps I’ll move it back.
samclem GQ moderator
im afraid its probably just rhyming with paddywhack and sounds like something being hit rhymically. sounds better than a whack whack paddywhack.
You neither suck, nor blow. 
And I am serious about this question.
My advice: Give the dog a bone, and that old man will go rolling home.
That, or just give 'im a good shove. You know how unsteady those knick-knacking old men are. One good push and he’ll be off like a bowling ball.
:: resists the urge to speculate on the coefficient of rolling friction between an old man and the ground ::
The old man and the C, eh?
Now there’s a coincidence: I sang little case to sleep with this song a scant couple of hours ago, at his request.
In kindergarden, I kinda disliked the old man. Even at that young age, I knew that “thumb” doesn’t rhyme with “one”.
But I remember now another song that really worried me: “Shoo, fly, don’t bother me…”
I could never figure out what a “shoe fly” was. My shoes never had any flies in 'em.
My friend’s six-year-old thought “Feliz Navidad” was actually “Fleas On My Dog.” He couldn’t understand why it was a Christmas song and I was laughing too hard to explain it, so his mother fielded that one.
But the “knick-knack paddywhack” always kinda freaked me out. I assumed that This Old Man was getting ready to beat me about the posterior with my mother’s bookends. I figured he was upset because he was married to the old lady who swallowed the fly and she obviously wasn’t doing so well. Why he’d take that out on me was one of Life’s Great Mysteries.
I had my paddy whacked once. In Amsterdam.
Cost me $43.