# \[Rudolph\] You'll go down in history (like ???) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008 "2011-12-21T22:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/81 "2011-12-22T20:58:20Z")
George Washington here ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/82 "2011-12-22T22:06:57Z")
## Join in any reindeer games (like **football** ) “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, you’ll go down in history!” (like **Lincoln** ) Wisconsin, late 80s ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/83 "2011-12-22T22:16:02Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Here in Canada, we also add ‘in his underwear’ after ‘Santa came to say’. > > Like Elvis > Like the dinosaurs are my kids’ historical references. I am also familiar with the “Elvis” version. And the underwear. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/84 "2011-12-22T22:31:59Z")
like the toothpaste like Pinocchio like George Washington like Monopoly ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/85 "2011-12-22T23:11:09Z")
Well, continuing with the fractured Christmas carols: “Chipmunks roasting on an open fire, makes a tasty Christmas treat…” “Oh what fun it is to ride in Grandma’s Chevrolet…” “Walking 'round in women’s underwear…” ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/86 "2011-12-23T01:26:56Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > It’s foggy not stormy. > > I was wrong. > > My error has been perpetuated. ☹ > > Everything ELSE I wrote is the God’s own truth and you’re all wrong. (like a light bulb) 😃 “Then all the reindeer loved him **(loved him)** As they shouted out with glee” is the [official lyrics](http://www.carols.org.uk/rudolf_the_red_nosed_reindeer.htm) instead of “Then all of the other reindeer **(reindeer)** Laughed and Shouted out with glee…” I have the correct lyrics in my post. I’m just saying. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/87 "2011-12-23T01:28:11Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > “Then all the reindeer loved him **(loved him)** > As they shouted out with glee” > > is the [official lyrics](http://www.carols.org.uk/rudolf_the_red_nosed_reindeer.htm) instead of > > “Then all of the other reindeer **(reindeer)** > Laughed and Shouted out with glee…” > > I have the correct lyrics in my post. I’m just saying. 😃 Fine. Pouts. But EVERYTHING else is the … Well, you get it. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/88 "2011-12-23T02:18:50Z")
Elvis. Definitely Elvis. And I would know…in my high school choir’s Christmas concerts, I was the bass “soloist” who’d sing the extra lines in a high falsetto. Always got a good laugh to hear one of the dudes who just boomed out the bottom part of the Hallelujah chorus squeak out “LIKE A LIGHT BULB!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/89 "2011-12-23T03:53:10Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > i always heard the george washington version, and was i the only one to hear the “shouted out with glee(like toothpaste!)” version? What I remember from when I was a kid (late '80s in the Southeast) was: …shouted out with glee ( **Whoopee!** or **Yippee!** ) “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, you’ll go down in history!” ( **Like toothpaste!** ) I figured this was because toothpaste is a famous invention, but that it was also a joke because you don’t learn about toothpaste in history. Until today I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of using a famous historic person’s name at that point, although it makes a lot more sense that way. Oh, the insult I learned was **funny face** , and the reindeer game was **football**. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/90 "2011-12-23T05:00:24Z")
George Washington is how we always sang it. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/91 "2011-12-23T07:05:49Z")
I’ve lived in a lot of places (and worked in a lot of pre-schools) and I’ve never heard it as anything but “like Columbus!” when I’ve heard it done at all. It fits so much nicer into the rhythm scheme than “like George Washington.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/92 "2011-12-23T07:19:04Z")
Anything on you tube about this, so that I could get a better idea? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/93 "2011-12-23T07:38:22Z")
[Tudou link.](http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/307VFMkHyrY/) They sing it the first time without any repeats but the 2nd time around they add the extra words (yippee and Columbus). I still think Columbus does not flow quite as well as Napoleon or George Washington because of the stress of the syllables. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/94 "2011-12-23T08:54:29Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Columbus. Never even heard that George Washington shit before this thread. +1 ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/95 "2011-12-23T09:30:24Z")
Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/96 "2011-12-23T13:21:28Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem. Or Dunder and Mifflin. Can’t you see Rainn Wilson dressing up as Santa for the Office party? ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/97 "2011-12-23T14:19:01Z")
I had never heard the add-ons until my kids started coming home from school singing them. They always said “like Elvis” for the history part. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/98 "2011-12-23T14:41:32Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Like George Washington. And the shouts of glee are to be followed by “yippee!”. The game is Monopoly, and Donner is not mentioned except in the intro. > > Midwest, Mid-80s. Exactly! Chicago area, late 50s ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/99 "2011-12-23T15:11:32Z")
Reindeer like a lightbulb saw it like a light bulb Reindeer like dummy (Dumbo, stupid,asshole) Rudolph like football (Scrabble, Parchesi, Monopoly) Like a light bulb Loved him yippee! Reindeer like Lincoln (Columbus, Washington) I’ve heard several variants over the years. The version I consider "standard " is in plain text with the less common versions following in parentheses. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008/100 "2011-12-23T15:54:41Z")
+1 for Napoleon. That was how we’uns up NH way sang it every year. And the game, for us, was Monopoly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudolph-youll-go-down-in-history-like/607008.md?page=6)