# Without Googling (or using another search tool) can you... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200 "2011-08-18T17:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/21 "2011-08-18T18:50:18Z")
1. The gingham dog and the calico cat… nope, maybe something about a boat and the moon and a spoon? …and singing? 2. There is a house in New Orleans… they call the Rising Sun 3. Love means never having to say…you’re sorry 4. All around the mulberry bush…the something-or-other and the weasel 5. I found my thrill…on Blueberry Hill ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/22 "2011-08-18T18:53:35Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I did! Right after I posted. I’ve absolutely never heard it before. I can accept that. It’s one of those things that stuck in my mind as a child, but one that I probably haven’t heard a dozen times since then. Just to clarify my snide: I had heard it differently from the guess upthread and Googled it to be sure after seeing that one. Fortunately, Google confirmed the version I remembered, but I wanted to allow for the other version as well. Thus the “Google it” snark. I’m guessing that the responses in this thread make a good case for my comments in the linked thread. The Superman possibility has some weight, but I’d hazard that there are areas where even Superman is an unknown idea. I cannot think of a single thing that “everybody” would know. Not these days! ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/23 "2011-08-18T18:57:17Z")
1. I know the answer! The answer lies within the hearts of all mankind! The answer is \_\_\_\_\_ ? - no idea 2. You put your left foot in… you take your left foot out 3. There’s a place in France… no idea. 4. …a bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. no idea. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/24 "2011-08-18T20:02:03Z")
1. You put your left foot in… You put your left foot out. . . 1. There’s a place in France… where the naked ladies dance… . . 1. …a bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. - No Idea ETA: There seems to be some variation as to what exactly happens in France, although the overall topic (and I’m sure the melody) is the same. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/25 "2011-08-18T20:03:15Z")
1, I have no clue. 2 I know: called the House of the Rising Sun 3 has been paraphrased and parodied countless times, but I think that the original is you’re sorry 4 you mangled, but I do know both of the things you mangled it from: “All around the cobbler’s bench the monkey chased the weasel”, and “Here we go round the mulberry bush, so early in the morning” 5 I know: On blueberry hill Oh, and I also know all three of **malkavia** ’s. The third one is Down by the banks of the Hanky Pank, where a bullfrog jumped from bank to bank, because he had nothing better for to do ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/26 "2011-08-18T20:08:58Z")
Here’s the full text for gingham dog and calico cat. It was a favorite of mine (and therefore of my daughters) [CatStuff: The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat](http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/gingham.htm). But I think it IS a little obscure. Of all the kid’s poetry books I have, its in one of them - along with Winken, Blinken and Nod and the Owl and the Pussycat. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/27 "2011-08-18T20:14:28Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > …add the next line of these “familiar” things? > > (Sort of a response/examination of the ideas in [Is there any cultural reference that every American knows?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14153567)) > > 1. The gingham dog and the calico cat… The who to the what now? Joe ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/28 "2011-08-18T20:19:09Z")
I too knew all but no. 1. but I didn’t know it was a famous childrens’ poem. I remember listening to a song (apparently) based on it as a child and I can still hear the tune and the sound effects of the dog and cat, but in the song there is no “next” line; “The gingham dog(ruff ruff) and the calico cat (meowwww)” is the end line of the chorus. Which reminds me, on that same record was a song that named all the nine ways “Old Mr. Johnson” tried to kill a yellow cat but the cat kept coming back :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/29 "2011-08-18T20:28:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 4 you mangled, but I do know both of the things you mangled it from: “All around the cobbler’s bench the monkey chased the weasel”, and “Here we go round the mulberry bush, so early in the morning” You’re absolutely correct! In spite of the Google results (and those of Yahoo!) that show the mulberry bush, it’s indeed the cobbler’s bench that the monkey and the weasel are playing tag around. And the other ditty about the mulberry bush is not about the monkey or the weasel. As I was sharing the thread with **Zoe** (my wife) she chastised me for having it **wrong(!)** and even blamed my gender for not knowing that little girls made daily use of the “here we go round the mulberry bush” song and game. They even dropped hankies on the ground in the process as some sort of a musical chairs scheme. Boys didn’t play such games and are thus inferior, and try to cover their shame by inventing erroneous versions of nursery rhymes to make up for it. Isn’t it great to find such mysteries of life corrected so late in life! My profound apologies to anybody who accepted my version as being valid. I will eat no solid food for a week in penance. ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/30 "2011-08-18T20:32:40Z")
Nope, I don’t know how to complete any of them. But then, I’ve never paid attention to lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/31 "2011-08-18T20:37:03Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > 1. There’s a place in France… > > where the naked ladies dance.. . . where the women wear no pants ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/32 "2011-08-18T21:27:11Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > As I was sharing the thread with **Zoe** (my wife) she chastised me for having it **wrong(!)** … > Isn’t it great to find such mysteries of life corrected so late in life! My profound apologies to anybody who accepted my version as being valid. I will eat no solid food for a week in penance. Not to interfere with any chastisement/redemption games you and the wife have planned for later, but this is a very common, perhaps regional, variation on the song. It is certainly the one I learned as a girl (the weasel with the mullberry bush, that is), here in Northern Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/33 "2011-08-18T21:35:46Z")
1. The gingham dog and the calico cat…is an unChristian union 2. There is a house in New Orleans…but not after Katrina 3. Love means never having to say…I didn’t mean to squirt it in your hair 4. All around the mulberry bush…or else 5. I found my thrill…with a license to kill 6. You put your left foot in…you take your left foot out, making it pointless to put it in in the first place 7. There’s a place in France…where I keep my underpants 8. Fuck!..a bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/34 "2011-08-18T21:40:49Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > Not to interfere with any chastisement/redemption games you and the wife have planned for later, but this is a very common, perhaps regional, variation on the song. It is certainly the one I learned as a girl (the weasel with the mullberry bush, that is), here in Northern Ohio. I’m going to be sure she sees your reply! ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/35 "2011-08-18T21:52:59Z")
1. No 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. No ---
**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:** [August 18, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/36 "2011-08-18T22:14:14Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > …add the next line of these “familiar” things? > > (Sort of a response/examination of the ideas in [Is there any cultural reference that every American knows?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14153567)) > > 1. The gingham dog and the calico cat… > 2. There is a house in New Orleans… > 3. Love means never having to say… > 4. All around the mulberry bush… > 5. I found my thrill… > > Do feel free to add your own “tests” of the basic theory… 1. No 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. Yes ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/37 "2011-08-18T22:14:39Z")
I know 2-4, #5 was sorta vaguely familiar once I saw the answer, and I’ve never heard of #1 in any context whatsoever that I can recall. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/38 "2011-08-18T22:16:03Z")
All but #1 are very easy and familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/39 "2011-08-18T23:09:54Z")
Knew everything instantly except #1. I’d expect most people to. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/40 "2011-08-18T23:13:05Z")
All but #1 is easy. Hardly had to think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200.md?page=3)