Just one. What’s with the toothpaste?
You are ALL wrong.
It’s “Like Columbus did.”
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.
Right here! I was scrolling down, scanning for any fellow “like Napoleon”-singers. It has the perfect rhythm, just like “Pinocchio” and “Monopoly” earlier in the song.
Let me blow everyone’s minds and say that in my little midwestern elementary school in the 80s we said “Like the Flinstones!” True story!
Second to that is George Washington. Never heard “Columbus.”
Mine are different than others have posted thus far. Just quoting the differences:
Used to laugh and call him names (like Dumbo)
…
Join in any reindeer games (like football)
As they shouted out with glee (hoo-ray!)
…
“Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, you’ll go down in history!” (like Paul Revere)
1970’s Long Island, if anyone cares.
G. Washington. Never heard it as Columbus. Probably some cross-Mason-Dixon Line differences.
I guess I’m the only one with “Like the president!” (I defend this on the basis that the more famous a figure is, the less likely one is to remember their name).
Me too. I think the people who add these lines are the same people who insist of at least one line of “how old are you” after happy birthday even if no one else joins them.
Anyway, I’ve only heard “like columbus.”
Columbus, not the other guy! And all added in words must be shouted in unison in very jerky, accented syllables.
And it’s not just the very little 'uns. I was playing Christmas music Monday and The Song happened to shuffle on, and upwards of 50 juniors and seniors (17,18 years old) were belting it out like their lives depended on it.
Pinocchio and Columbus here, born in '79, grew up in the NW 'burbs of Chicago.
Except, we added a syllable to Columbus to match Pinocchio… “Like Co-lum-bi-us!”
Where I grew up we sang some add-ons as the same and some as different. This version was only sung when no adults were around.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (reindeer)
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it (saw it)
You would even say it glows (like my butt-hole)
All of the other reindeer (reindeer)
Used to laugh and call him names (like fucking retard)
They wouldn’t let poor Roudolph (Rudolph)
Join in any reindeer games (like smeer the queer)
Then one stormy Christmas eve
Santa came to say,
“Rudolph with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight”
Then all of the other reindeer (reindeer)
Laughed and shouted out with glee (with glee)
“Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, you’ll go down in history!” (like my butt-hole)
You and me both-I am 99.99999% convinced that this entire thread is just one big whoosh. I’ve never heard anybody anywhere add on these extra words and phrases that people here keep insisting they did. <crosses arms and assumes a deeply skeptical posture :mad:>
like Titanic!
This is how we sing it at my house.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose (like a light bulb)
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows (like a lightbulb)
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names (like a light bulb)
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games (like a light bulb)
Then one foggy Christmas eve
Santa came to say,
“Rudolph with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight”
Then all of the other reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee (like a light bulb)
“Rudolph the red nosed reindeer,
you’ll go down in history!” (like a light bulb)
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) 
“Like Hitler.”
Rudolph is one sadistic fuck.
Columbus (Chicago c.1978 onward)
I’ve only ever heard “like Napoleon” and I am from the US.
Here in Canada, we also add ‘in his underwear’ after ‘Santa came to say’.
Like Elvis
Like the dinosaurs are my kids’ historical references.