# Rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915 "2000-01-19T19:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/21 "2000-01-19T23:20:00Z")
whatever ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/22 "2000-01-19T23:24:00Z")
My head hurts. * * * **-PIGEONMAN-** Returns! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **By Popular Demand!** Enjoy, enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/23 "2000-01-20T00:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I dont know what the hell the op is talking about. > > Thanks for fucking up the screen though…it breaks up my week in a really special way. The OP is talking about a children’s story (duh? context anyone?) but I don’t know what the hell you are talking about with the “fucking up the screen” shit. How is it fucked up? There isn’t even a horizontal scrollbar! * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/24 "2000-01-20T00:31:00Z")
Uh, there is a horizontal scroll bar in my world, and I am frankly not enjoying it. Loved the book as a kid, though. * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/25 "2000-01-20T00:37:00Z")
Man, I remember this story. Second grade. Cool. * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [cmkeller@compuserve.com](mailto:cmkeller@compuserve.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/26 "2000-01-20T00:41:00Z")
Opal- the entire forum was pushed to the left. I could not see the number of posts or the time posted, etc. I was at work on a small monitor, I use the time posted stats to quickly(read discreetly) pop to an active thread. It’s ok now that I’m home. * * * Then Holley held Miss Spider’s hand… I’ll say no more, you understand. For private moments between spiders Should not be witnessed by outsiders. -David Kirk- Miss Spider’s Wedding ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/27 "2000-01-20T00:44:00Z")
oops make that right, doh. ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/28 "2000-01-20T00:52:00Z")
I always thought Rikki Tikki Tavi was a story by Rudyard Kipling about a mongoose. The story about someone falling in a well I remember as a song (Brothers Four)and the name was (and sorry if this messes up your screens) EddieKoochaKachaKammaToastaMeeraToasta known as SammaKammaWacky Brown For whatever that’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![APB9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/29 "2000-01-20T01:11:00Z")
I remeber Rikitikitemboetcetcetcetcetcetcetc! In fact, just the other day I was asking the Chinese guys in the lab here if they’d ever heard the story (no). Small world, huh? That such a random thing would crop up for three people in such a small time frame, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/30 "2000-01-20T01:18:00Z")
Opal must have a big-screen monitor or something…I have the scrool bar (at home and work) , and I have to scroll side to side to read # of posts, when last posted, all that…if you had inserted a space halfway through that word, this all could have been avoided. Flypside…at least you didnt fucking poop in my bathtub. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/31 "2000-01-20T01:21:00Z")
I have a 17 inch monitor, but I keep the browser window at about 60% of the width of the screen…no scrolling problems here. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/32 "2000-01-20T01:25:00Z")
I think mine is 13(?) anyhoo…I can see the # of posts at home, but my fonts are set big at work, so that probably accounts for the diff…but I still have to scroll over to see the time of the last post. (secretly coveting Opal’s monitor) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/33 "2000-01-20T02:19:00Z")
I remember! The thread title made me giggle. And it’s scrolling off of my screen too. * * * ~Kyla “Anger is what makes America great.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/34 "2000-01-20T05:45:00Z")
I remember the brothers as Rikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Cheri Beri Buchi Pip Peri Pembo and Chang. Chang fell in the well first and Rikki etc told their mother and he got fished out. The next day, Rikki etc fell into the well. Chang ran to tell their mother and, being all out of breath, kept messing up the name and Mother kept interrupting Chang to tell him to pronoune his brother’s name correctly. ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/35 "2000-01-20T14:28:00Z")
I remember this one…It took too long to say his name when he fell in the well so he drowned, right? ---
**Author:** ![Lanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85e7bf/32.png) [@Lanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanna)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/36 "2000-01-20T14:37:00Z")
Oh! I was just thinking about this the other day. I was in the play when I was younger, and ran across the pictures my mom took. Another girl and I fought over who’d get to play the younger brother, since that way, we’d have a lot more lines. I lost out and had to fall in the stupid well, while she got the cool part… Bitch. I’m over it though. Really. -Lanna ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/37 "2000-01-20T15:49:00Z")
okatym: For heaven’s sake, it’s a children’s story! Of course Rikkitikkietc.etc. doesn’t drown! Read it to a kid named Sylvester Lucifer von Pandemonium and he wouldn’t sleep for a month. Mom and Chang and the Old Man with the Ladder have to do a real number on him to get all the water out, though. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/38 "2000-01-20T15:55:00Z")
Ike, I thought that was the Disneyesque spin. I mean, please! They didn’t even KNOW CPR or mouth-to-mouth way back then… ;)-katy ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/39 "2000-01-20T16:12:00Z")
I remember it fondly. It was one of my favorite books. It’s actually Tiki Tiki Tembo No Si Rembo Cherri Berri Ruchi Pip Perri Pembo (more on WHY I know that below). Rikki Tiki Tavi is a Kipling story about a mongoose. According to the story, it means “The most wonderful and esteemed child in all the world” or some such in Chinese. He has a younger brother named Chang. Chang falls into the well, Tiki runs to his mom, tells her Chang has fallen into the well, the old man with the latter resues him, everyone is happy. A few days later Tiki falls into the well, and Chang runs to his mom, but he is SO out of breath, by the time he gets Tiki’s whole name out, and the old man can get to him, Tiki is near death. But he lives, and they all realise how silly long names are, and THAT is why Chinese names are short. My godfather is Chinese, and because I adored him (and still do, he rocks hardcore…) I always associated the book with him, I named my siamese cat after it, and she KNOWS she’s in trouble when she hears the whole name. (otherwise, Tiki works jsut fine…)Plus, when people ask what her name is, I do the whole schpiel and they just stand there shocked. It’s grand. * * * One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzche ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915/40 "2000-01-20T21:08:00Z")
I remember a version of the story where the younger brother’s name is “John”. But then, I remember a lot of things… Sweet Basil [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rikkitikkitimbonasarimbocherriberriruchipitperipimbo/12915.md?page=3)