# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/41 "2011-08-18T23:39:13Z")
1. no clue…even after reading the spoiler 2. Easy 3. Easy 4. should have been easy, but I blanked on the subject and verb of the sentence 5. Easy ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/42 "2011-08-18T23:45:19Z")
Never heard of the second on the list (is it a regional thing?), and the first one I’m only vague on…but yeah, the others I know pretty well. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/43 "2011-08-18T23:49:05Z")
Knew all but #1. It was the first day of a new school year. Three boys arrive at class late and the teacher asks the first boy “Why are you tardy,” the boy replies “I’ve been on Blueberry Hill” the teacher said “Take your seat.” She asks the next boy why he was late. “I was on Blueberry Hill also” he replied. Then she asked the third boy, but he replied with the same answer. As the boys we’re sitting down a girl arrives in. “Let me guess”, said the teacher. “You where on Bluberry Hill also” “NO… I am Blueberry Hill” replied the girl. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/44 "2011-08-19T00:47:44Z")
Trying this out… 1. The gingham dog and the calico cat (this one is hard - I know the poem but don’t know the line) 2. There is a house in New Orleans they call the house of the rising sun??? 3. Love means never having to say you’re sorry 4. All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel 5. I found my thrill on blueberry hill ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/45 "2011-08-19T00:50:37Z")
All but the first. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/46 "2011-08-19T01:03:48Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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. Well, what does she expect to result from snakes and snails and puppy-dog tails…? ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/47 "2011-08-19T01:14:58Z")
I knew all but #1, and I learned the verse as all around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/48 "2011-08-19T01:22:15Z")
Know them all except #1. I know “all around the mulberry bush…” but apparently that’s because I’m from Northeastern Ohio! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/49 "2011-08-19T01:25:56Z")
I know them all. #1 is in The Tall Book of Make Believe which was my favorite book when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/50 "2011-08-19T01:26:11Z")
I knew all of them immediately. #1 is my favorite childhood poem. ---
**Author:** ![justafriend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@justafriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justafriend)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/51 "2011-08-19T01:28:44Z")
1. Pretty sure I’ve never heard this before… 2. The house of the rising sun? 3. I’m sorry 4. the monkey chased the weasel. The monkey thought it was all in fun. Pop goes the weasel! 5. in Texas? ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200/52 "2011-08-19T01:43:09Z")
> [@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. This rings a bell, but I can’t recall what it’s from. 2. …they call the Rising Sun. 3. …you’re sorry. I never saw the movie, but _Love Story_ was parodied so much that I didn’t need to. 4. Something from childhood that I no longer recall. 5. …on Blueberry Hill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-or-using-another-search-tool-can-you/593200.md?page=2)