# Klaatu Barada Nikto **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970 "2014-06-29T23:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/41 "2014-06-30T15:10:43Z")
Does [humuhumunukunukuapua’a](http://galeri7.uludagsozluk.com/272/humuhumunukunukuapua-a_441318.jpg) count? It’s not nonsense, but it’s inexplicable unless you know what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/42 "2014-06-30T16:12:21Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Does [humuhumunukunukuapua’a](http://galeri7.uludagsozluk.com/272/humuhumunukunukuapua-a_441318.jpg) count? It’s not nonsense, but it’s inexplicable unless you know what it is. I think that fits under this particular umbrella in that: 1. it’s weird enough 2. you provided a link 3. I know that I an happy to know about that particular nameable thing that I didn’t know before, and I hope others are as well. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/43 "2014-06-30T16:16:51Z")
These are definitely weird and the OP only said perhaps untranslatable. So I submit them in honor of my father, who introduced me to all of them. [Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats) [Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hut-Sut_Song) [honorificabilitudinitatibus](http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/44 "2014-06-30T16:17:14Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > [Frammin’ at the jim-jam, frippin’ in the krotz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Id) Along the same lines: \*Anaal nathra uthe vas bethod doch yel Dienve \* ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/45 "2014-06-30T16:19:42Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > These are definitely weird and the OP only said perhaps untranslatable. So I submit them in honor of my father, who introduced me to all of them. > > Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe? > > Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit. > > honorificabilitudinitatibus Outstanding! You beat me to those first two, and I was just waiting to let some more water flow over the dam. That last one reminds me of similar stuff my own dad either dreamed up or got from some source I have yet to find! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/46 "2014-06-30T16:22:58Z")
[Sizafitz, oot greet, shklortch, ging ging, blort](http://www.madcoversite.com/dmd.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/47 "2014-06-30T16:39:54Z")
[Homina homina homina…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9odsWwfIo) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/48 "2014-06-30T18:13:41Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned [Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) yet. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/49 "2014-06-30T18:27:36Z")
[Nam fri frufi fali fru](http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=1074249) ---
**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:** [June 30, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/50 "2014-06-30T18:38:30Z")
['S toigh leam fhìn buntàta 's ìm Tha Fionnlagh ag innearadh Hùg oiridh hiridh hairidh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StWqayUvSE) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/51 "2014-06-30T18:43:56Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Outstanding! You beat me to those first two, and I was just waiting to let some more water flow over the dam. That last one reminds me of similar stuff my own dad either dreamed up or got from some source I have yet to find! 🙂 Yeah, Dads. Your reference to the dam made think of the Three Little Fishies, with: Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Someone else is going to have to post a good link, though. Most of the lyrics sites are blocked, here. I remember at least one version of the song that lisped through the lyics in a way to make the verses a bit hard to parse. If the chorus means anything, I’ve never heard what. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/52 "2014-06-30T18:44:34Z")
[Oo, ee, oo ah ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing-bang…](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Doctor_(song)) ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/53 "2014-06-30T19:40:19Z")
Kind of a long shot, but… [Shool! Shool! Shool! I rule! Shool! Shool! Shool! I rule! Shool! Shacker-rack! I shool bubba cool. Seller! Beller eel! Fust to ma tree’l Just came er bubba. Buska! Buska-reel!]([The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Negro Folk Rhymes, by Thomas W. Talley.](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27195/27195-h/27195-h.htm)) If you know it, I’d love to hear about it. ETA: You might know it better as “[Ish come bibble ahly-boo-so-real](http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=124)” ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/54 "2014-06-30T19:58:24Z")
[Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. Shimmy, shimmy, rock. Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. Shimmy, shimmy, rock.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu) ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/55 "2014-06-30T20:04:00Z")
Gliddy gloop gloopy naba nibby noopy la la la lo lo Saba sibby saba, nooby abba naba, lee lee lee lo lo Tooby ooby walla, nooby alla naba, Early mornin’ singing song ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/56 "2014-06-30T20:25:34Z")
[Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15rzqfSofo) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/57 "2014-06-30T22:11:52Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > Gliddy gloop gloopy naba nibby noopy la la la lo lo > Saba sibby saba, nooby abba naba, lee lee lee lo lo > Tooby ooby walla, nooby alla naba, > Early mornin’ singing song Good morning, Starshine! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/58 "2014-06-30T22:39:52Z")
> [@Mr.Me](#): > > [Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15rzqfSofo) Elroy! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/59 "2014-06-30T23:02:30Z")
[Mekka lekka hi, mekka hiney ho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaii5R2Lo8U#t=28) Oddly, I thought of the phrase immediately, though it took me 20 seconds or so to realize where it was from… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klaatu-barada-nikto/691970/60 "2014-06-30T23:21:35Z")
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