# Not too big, not too small, just the size of a doody ball! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438 "2007-12-18T06:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438/21 "2007-12-19T19:47:40Z")
A skipping song we sang was _“Hello Operator”_ > [@](#): > > Miss Susie had a steamboat > the steamboat had a bell > Miss Susie went to heaven > the steamboat went to > Hello operator please give me number nine > and if you disconnect me > I’ll kick you from behind > the refrigerator there was a piece of glass > Miss Susie sat upon it and cut her little > ask me no more questions > tell me no more lies - This is apparantly as far as I ever got! I didn’t remember the rest and when I looked them up I found several versions.\* **one version of the rest…** > [@](#): > > the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their > flies are in the meadow, > the bees are in the park > Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the > dark is like a movie > a movie’s like a show > a show is like a tv screen and that is all > i know i know my ma > i know i know my pa > i know i know my sister with the 80 acre alligator bra ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438/22 "2007-12-19T20:41:15Z")
Everybody’s doin’ it doin’ it Pickin’ their nose and chewin’ it chewin’ it The king of France Wet his pants Right in the middle of a ballroom dance Chinese, Japanese Dirty knees Look at these (said whilst pulling the front of your shirt out to indicate breasts) Ha! I’ve got a million of 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438/23 "2007-12-19T23:25:15Z")
Gene, Gene made a machine Frank, Frank, turned the crank Art, Art, let a fart and blew the goddamed thing apart! Help! Murder! police! My father fell in the grease! I laughed so hard I fell in the lard Help! Murder! Police! And my favorite: One bright day in the middle of the night two dead boys got up to fight back to back they faced each other drew their swords and shot each other a deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill the two dead boys! ---
**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:** [December 20, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438/24 "2007-12-20T02:11:29Z")
In 1944, My father went to war, He picked up a gun, and shot a Hun, and that was the end of the war! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438/25 "2007-12-20T02:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Everybody’s doin’ it doin’ it Pickin’ their nose and chewin’ it chewin’ it [/QUOTE] Based on a [1912 hit song](http://www.heftone.com/words/everybodys_doin_it_now.html) by Irving Berlin, which, ironically, not one grade school kid in 100 million is likely to have ever heard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-too-big-not-too-small-just-the-size-of-a-doody-ball/430438.md?page=1)