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Justi,
I understand! I have only recently been "back" for a couple weeks, if that. I was gone for a long time cause I had a lot going on in life. Just moved across the country from Tampa to Oregon and my mom is quite ill so I've been flying back and forth home to Chicago. Anyway, glad to see you back (I had to discover the Justsouno I knew is now Justi!) Hope you're doing well!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2006 at 1:50 AM
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Oh, my sweet LittleMsP!!!
How are you? I miss you! Yeah, I've been getting that comment about not knowing of this expression or saying (whatever ya call it) a lot! It seems only me and Strat have heard it before so far! Now that's weird to me!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2006 at 1:45 AM
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Hey TAPS!
Well, kind of. It's like 1:30 am here in Oregon right now. I have been on the phone with my brother, Temple, and my dad all day cause my mommy is really ill now. I've been online checking out plane fares to get back to home to Chicago for oh, like, the 7th time this year! I really think this may be the last visit til the funeral visit. :( Icky times right now. She's been in ICU since Wednesday. Hope you're doing well. Got that whole computer/cable thing working now? 
How's Pitiful doin' these days?
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2006 at 1:39 AM
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Hi, Spitfire. I see you are online in the middle of the night.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 18, 2006 at 1:26 AM
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Spitfire my child
I haven't been on here when you were apparently for a long time. I haven't seen you. Thanks for the comment. I have been away a lot and am only getting a chance to read a bit. I never heard this but I certainly would not say it to children. BB
posted by
Justi
on September 17, 2006 at 7:05 PM
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hey spitfire!
you know, i've never heard that little catchphrase before! weird....
posted by
littlemspickles
on September 17, 2006 at 4:14 AM
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Taps!!! That rocks!
At least it was more normal that way! Or, um, was it? hehe
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 16, 2006 at 2:09 AM
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Spitfire, My four sons had their own version of it, "Bang, bang, you're dead!--Mom! I got him and he won't fall down! That's not fair!" LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on September 15, 2006 at 4:02 PM
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It's a possibility, Blanche!
So far, only me and Strat have heard it. I'm really shocked!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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Me too, Sunny! I hate that one.
My friends' grandpa always used to say that. Eeew.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 3:38 PM
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Spitfire, I'm with the "I've never heard the punch line to that one before"
group, but kids like rhyming, so maybe someone got creative and added an extra line.
posted by
Blanche.
on September 15, 2006 at 1:49 PM
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Spitfire, I'm with the "I've never heard the punch line to that one before"
group, but kids like rhyming, so maybe someone got creative and added an extra line.
posted by
Blanche.
on September 15, 2006 at 1:49 PM
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Hahaha....I've NEVER heard that one!
Though I've always found the "So so suck my toe, all the way to Mexico" quite repulsive. LOL
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on September 15, 2006 at 11:05 AM
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Ok, Sir Strat,
Yep. That is pretty twisted!! Wowie. But, at least SOMEBODY has heard the bang bang saying! I was starting to wonder. I must admit, I actually LOL when reading yours!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 9:31 AM
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Wow, Young Miss. What's scary is I do remember that one.
But we had all kinds of sick little things like that. My grandfather used to sing the following children's tune to us to get us to sleep:
"Had a little puppy, kept him in the country , fed him on ginger bread;
along came a choo choo, knocked him cuckoo, now my little puppy's dead."
How twisted is that? And think of the visual, kindly old grandad with his pipe bouncing laughing little cherub on his knee. No wonder I'm so screwed up!
posted by
strat
on September 15, 2006 at 6:13 AM
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OMG, SaulR!! I'm freakin' out now!
I can't believe you guys never heard of this! I think I'm in the Chicago Twilight Zone. I must be!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 12:14 AM
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Geez, Whacky! Are ya kiddin' me?
I was born and raised in Chicago! Not like, Bumble F*&$ nowhere'sville! Yikes! What's wrong with me?!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 12:11 AM
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Aw, com'on Kat! Really??
You guys are all makin' me look crazier than I really am! K, but yeah, that "bed bug" thing was always totally unkewl to me, too. Everytime something tickled me during the night, like a hair or a loose thread from the blankets, I'd wake up in terror.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 15, 2006 at 12:04 AM
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Talion! Say it ain't so!
Dang!! Maybe it is just me! 
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 11:52 PM
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LoveyLady, you should know me better by now!
You know this stuff comes from the depths within the bowels of my brain! And, besides, it's true, I tellya! Some things such as this have made me wonder about such things. Doesn't it make anyone else wonder? Hello? Is anyone there?
Helloowwww?
Why do I hear an echo in here?
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 11:49 PM
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A, I hated that nursery rhyme stuff. It might be a good thing
that you weren't aware of this childhood saying!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 11:44 PM
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No, nonconformist, it certainly isn't calming by any means....
But just out of curiosity, you said, "the first time you heard it..." so what did you think of it? (the 'bang bang' saying?)
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 11:42 PM
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My family is chock full 'o adages and old wives' tales and old sayings,
Spitfire, but I've never heard that one. When I was a child, "Bang bang! You're dead!" was usually followed by "No, I ain't! You missed me!!" Brushing teeth was "a whole 'nother ballgame."
posted by
saul_relative
on September 14, 2006 at 11:27 PM
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Never heard those together.
I heard brush your teeth and go to bed. Then sometimes while outside someone would shout Bang! Bang! you're dead. Usually during a game of cops and robbers.
posted by
Whacky
on September 14, 2006 at 9:04 PM
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Another "never heard of it" head shaker Spitfire, lol...
I do remember "Bang, bang you're dead" from wild little cowboy players...:) I hated "Night night, don't let the bedbugs bite"...like I was going to fall asleep with bugs in my bed, even if they were polite enough not to bite...LOL...
posted by
Katray2
on September 14, 2006 at 8:39 PM
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SpitFire70
I must admit I haven't heard this one either.
posted by
Talion
on September 14, 2006 at 8:14 PM
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Spitfire,
I gotta ask...WHERE THE HELL DO YOU COME UP WITH THIS STUFF????....
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on September 14, 2006 at 8:11 PM
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I never heard of that one . I got the boring nursery rhymes stuff.
(A)
posted by
A-and-B
on September 14, 2006 at 6:24 PM
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The first time I've ever heard it....
...all I heard was "Night night, sleep tight, mind the fleas don't bite!" Makes sense yes, but not exactly a calming, sleep enducing statement....
posted by
nonconformist
on September 14, 2006 at 4:06 PM
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Julia, really?
You guys never heard that? Maybe it's all in my own head. Hmmm...
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 3:14 PM
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Yep. I've heard that one many times.
I don't think it's as confusing as the other one, though.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 14, 2006 at 3:13 PM
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I've never heard that either--it doesn't make a whole lot of sense! LOL.
posted by
Julia.
on September 14, 2006 at 2:50 PM
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I've never heard that one.
However, I did hear "Bang bang, you're dead. Mommy and the milkman are gonna go in the bedroom and mourn you now, so
stay dead for the next twenty minutes" several times, but I think that's a common one.
posted by
mark2556
on September 14, 2006 at 2:37 PM
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