# Ku Ku Kachoo: What does it mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366 "2013-04-22T02:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/21 "2013-04-26T01:42:52Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > That is a fact, is it? :rolleyes: > > Singers (and songwriters) have been using nonsense syllables in songs since time immemorial. Hey nonny nonny no, folderol da diddle. “Give peace a chance…” ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/22 "2013-04-26T02:02:14Z")
Provocative question **Hottius Maximus** btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/23 "2013-04-26T02:30:42Z")
Ku Ku Kachoo means the walrus has an allergy, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/24 "2013-04-26T04:09:16Z")
Su sussudio! ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/25 "2013-04-26T04:36:08Z")
Gabba gabba hey! ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/26 "2013-04-26T11:56:11Z")
As several have stated, it seems to be a form of psychedelic skat. Bands like Steely Dan and even Yes would use words (lyrics) for their sonic merit, and the lines didn’t have to make sense. Just one more example of the Beatles trying innovative ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/27 "2013-04-27T03:02:21Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > Lennon later regretted making the walrus the focus of the song, as he was going for a somewhat sinister vibe, and the carpenter was the real badguy of the duo. Though after his infamous remarks about Jesus a year or so previously, if he’d written a song called “I Am the Carpenter,” you can just imagine the controversy! You must be misremembering. According to [this _Playboy_ interview excerpt](http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/Beatles/I-am-the-Walrus): [Quote=John Lennon] It’s from “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” “Alice in Wonderland.” To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, “I am the carpenter.” But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? [Singing] “I am the carpenter…”" [/Quote] ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/28 "2013-04-30T00:25:46Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Provocative question **Hottius Maximus** btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl 😃 I am a man. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/29 "2013-04-30T01:44:57Z")
It’s Lithuanian for Boop Boop Be Doop ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/30 "2013-04-30T21:01:10Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Provocative question **Hottius Maximus** btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl 😃 Wouldn’t that be Hottia Maxima? (That’s actually a genuine question. I have no idea.) ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/31 "2013-05-01T23:09:30Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Wouldn’t that be Hottia Maxima? > > (That’s actually a genuine question. I have no idea.) LOL! Perhaps my female counterpart would be either what you said or Hottia Maximette! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/32 "2013-05-01T23:22:38Z")
It means they stutter when they sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/33 "2013-05-02T20:45:45Z")
Ku ku kachoo rhymes with 23 skidoo, which I also have no idea what it means. ---
**Author:** ![\_3Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9e5f3/32.png) [@\_3Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_3Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/34 "2013-05-02T22:03:18Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > That is a fact, is it? :rolleyes: > > Singers (and songwriters) have been using nonsense syllables in songs since time immemorial. Hey nonny nonny no, folderol da diddle. It is a fact that koo koo kachoo is an allusion to Walrus. As far as drugs go, “It’s a little secret, just the Robinson’s affair, Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids.” A lot of free-floating paranoia bait in that song. You had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366/35 "2013-05-03T04:56:12Z")
> [@\_3Bill](#): > > It is a fact that koo koo kachoo is an allusion to Walrus. As far as drugs go, “It’s a little secret, just the Robinson’s affair, Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids.” A lot of free-floating paranoia bait in that song. You had to be there. I don’t know if it helps, but “Mrs. Robinson” was originally “Mrs. Roosevelt.” When Paul Simon got the commission for _The Graduate_, he used the song as is, changing only the name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ku-ku-kachoo-what-does-it-mean/656366.md?page=1)