Central Illinois.
Pinocchio, Monopoly, George Washington.
All four syllables, so the rhythm works out.
Edit: For the one’s who don’t know what we’re talking about, here’s topic I posted a few years back:
To round out the other options:
…call him names (“Like Dumbo!”)
…reindeer games (“Like football!”)
Also, on “Santa came to say,” a hearty “Ho Ho Ho!” and “…as they shouted out with glee,” was followed by “Yippee!” The toothpaste reference would have been lost on us, I’m afraid - we never had that brand around here.
We never had this when I grew up, in the 80s, in the UK.
However, my daughter (who is very nearly 8) has recently begun singing “Like a lightbulb!” at various points during the song. That is the only call-out she is using, but she uses it a lot. So, “You’ll go down in history… like a lightbulb!”
Get her to change it to “like the incandescent lightbulb,” and she’s not wrong.
I can’t remember. I remember the Pinocchio and Monopoly lines, but don’t remember the name at the end. I also don’t recall this version being sung often at all among my classmates in the mid-80s. Chicago.
Lightbulb, Pinocchio, Monopoly, George Washington. I grew up in Alabama in the mid-1980’s. Although when I have kids, I’m gonna teach them to say Linda Lovelace, thanks Czarcasm.
I was born in the early 70’s in Virginia and never heard any extra words after “You’ll go down in history.”
Same here, also in Ohio.
Never heard of anything after “history.” Grew up on Long Island.
Minneapolis, now; grew up in western Wisconsin; born in Colorado.
Pinocchio, Monopoly, Ho ho ho, Yee-haw!, and Columbus. As is right and proper.
The only addition I’ve heard is “like Monopoly”, and that was rare. I grew up in Atlanta in the mid-80s.
Southern California, early 1970s
Like a lightbulb (twice)
Like Pinocchio
Like Monopoly
Ho ho ho
Like toothpaste
Like Columbus
Growing up, I don’t remember doing it at the end. We did Pinocchio, Monopoly, etc., but I can’t remember the one after “history”. Nowadays, I give it the Bart Simpson treatment. My wife, from Georgia, always sang George Washington.
Columbus. Western New York, mid 1970-1980s.
…Atilla the Hun. This is from Springfield, ____________ (at least that’s how it appears in the closing credits of The Simpsons Movie).
Actually, I am from the San Francisco area, and never heard “like (something)” applied to that song except at the end of The Simpsons Christmas Special.
Monopoly and Magellan. Grew up in Montana.
Lincoln , also football. Raised in NC.
Tried to get my canadian kids to go with René Lévesque, but they also say Lincoln, & monopoly
This is the same for me, and I grew up in Maryland.
Ditto. Never ever heard anyone add bits to the song.
Melbourne Australia
I’m a native Southern Californian, and I never heard the additions until I heard my brother and nieces singing them. I assumed it was the influence of his Minnesota in-laws.
The recent live broadcast by the RiffTrax guys (also Minnesotans) of Santa Claus vs. The Martians had a series of slides showing as people entered the theater. One of them was something like, “If you say, ‘Like a flashlight,’ instead of, ‘Like a light-bulb,’ you are literally the worst monster in history.” 