# Itchy Knee, Son? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447 "2007-12-18T12:26:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/1 "2007-12-18T12:26:47Z")
Go Rock! Like doubles tennis? Get the Hannah Dual Set Net! But you should’ve gotten it before the Cats Sank. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/2 "2007-12-18T12:34:58Z")
**Cal** , yer off to a roarin’ start this mornin’, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/3 "2007-12-18T12:36:43Z")
Don’t touch my mustache, man. Go eat a duck and mouse. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/4 "2007-12-18T12:37:46Z")
My hen laid a haddock, A haddock for tea. I really could do With a haddock or three. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/5 "2007-12-18T12:40:27Z")
We’ll see how long it takes. Nobody seems to have tumbled yet, although that could just be that I’m too dense to see it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/6 "2007-12-18T12:58:59Z")
I’ve tumbled, apart from the last line. Mine is a similar one. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/7 "2007-12-18T14:37:27Z")
I’ve kinda tumbled (got it from the thread title), but I’m fuzzy in spots. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/8 "2007-12-18T16:13:01Z")
does it have anything to do with fear and sex? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/9 "2007-12-18T16:18:09Z")
She go Roko? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/10 "2007-12-18T16:19:26Z")
[QUOTE=Whammo] She go Roko? [/QUOTE] hibachi coup jew? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/11 "2007-12-18T16:24:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] does it have anything to do with fear and sex? [/QUOTE] doesn’t everything? ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/12 "2007-12-18T16:24:44Z")
Don’t forget to eat a burrito. Gwen Chan’s auto sale is actually OK. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/13 "2007-12-18T16:31:47Z")
If anybody has the English translation of this thread, I would love to read it. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/14 "2007-12-18T16:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] If anybody has the English translation of this thread, I would love to read it. [/QUOTE] Don’t need one. Think Hell’s Kitchen. (The place, not the show.) It should become clear. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/15 "2007-12-18T16:52:39Z")
> [@](#): > > If anybody has the English translation of this thread, I would love to read it. “Itchy knee, son” sounds like _ichi, ni, san_, which is “one, two,. three” in Japanese. **Whammo** has been trying to extend it, and has gotten up to ten. (“Hibachi coup jew” = “hachi, kyu, ju” = “eight, nine. ten”. Snerk.) You’re on your own for the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/16 "2007-12-18T16:57:53Z")
[QUOTE=Whammo] She go Roko? [/QUOTE] See what I get for working instead of coming to the board? Beaten to the punch, that’s what! ETA: > [@CalMeacham](#): > > You’re on your own for the rest. Need Jew itchy? Need Jew she? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itchy-knee-son/430447/17 "2007-12-18T16:58:04Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] “Itchy knee, son” sounds like _ichi, ni, san_, which is “one, two,. three” in Japanese. **Whammo** has been trying to extend it, and has gotten up to ten. (“Hibachi coup jew” = “hachi, kyu, ju” = “eight, nine. ten”. Snerk.) You’re on your own for the rest. [/QUOTE] Oh. I learned “each nis-san she go” for 1-5. 😛