I hate to do this but I’ve run out of people (and library books) to ask:
I overheard this:
What’s your name?
Puddentane
Where do you live?
Down the lane
I know I once knew more of this nonsense but can’t remember or locate the rest. Tried the internet, too.
Found:
What’s your name?
Butter and tame.
If you ask me again
I’ll tell you the same
in “I Saw Esau” a collection of Brit rhymes for school age children.
They had another version as well:
What’s your name?
Mary Jane
Where do you live?
Womber Lane
What do you do?
Keep a school
How many Scholars?
Twenty-two
How many more?
Twenty-four
What’s your number?
Cucumber
This one was supposed to be the version used by schoolboys at Eton College C. 1830.
Another version (same book)- this was an Eton version as well:
Who’s your tutor?
Who’s your dame?
What’s your form?
and what’s your name?
“I saw Esau” had two more with Patchy Dolly and Baldy Bane but they were both “too far out” to be ay help.
Not being a Brit or a student at Eton I’d like to see the rest of the US version with Puddentane…
Well, I definitley don’t know the whole thing. Since, this is MPSIMS I don’t feel the need to be entirely accurate.
My Dad used to say a similar rhyme to me when I was a kid.
Whats your Name?
Pudentane, ask me again it will stay the same.
Whats your name?
James Monroe, ask me again you still won’t know.
pat
I overheard it last week, cancel the time machine, maybe. I might like to hear the accents that went with the Eton versions in the olden days, okay, order the time machine.
I’m definately familiar with the “Puddentain…ask me again I’ll tell you the same” variation. Anybody else remember Barney Fife responding “Puddentain” when asked his name by a Mayberry jail denizen?