Long about 1990 in Des Moines, I heard it confidently asserted that if you told someone to "shut up," you were really saying ...

I think I was in about fourth grade when people started saying that the word "dude" actually meant "a pimple on a donkey'...

Here's an interesting one submitted by a reader - a parody to the title song from Jesus Christ: Superstar . The first couple of lines ar...

Here's a reader submission first heard in Rowland Heights, CA in 1981. Sung to the tune of "Snoopy vs the Red Baron" by the Ro...

Here's a reader submission of a song to the tune of "Casey Jones" (well, actually to the tune of the parody of Casey Jones tha...

What did you  call the drink you created by mixing all the kinds of pop at the fountain drink station together? There weren't many res...

Here's a long entry from the e-book, which I felt like posting after finding an interesting article from 1897 in the Chicago Tribune  ar...

If you’ve heard this rhyme in the last fifty years, you probably heard it as something like this: Gene, gene, made a machine Joe, Joe, made...

Here’s one that everyone knew to chant while walking down the sidewalk: Step on a crack, you’ll break your mother’s back . This has been r...

Hi, folks! We here at the Smart Aleck's Guide HQ are busily preparing for an ebook based on this site, and wanted to share a recent ad...

When I was in fourth grade, a rumor went around that "bike" was a French word for "penis." This probably came from the ...

Which version did you say? We favored "butt naked," but were aware of "buck naked." Historically, "buck naked...

A few years ago I played a gig in a bar that was the last stop on a "hash." Hashing was a new phenomenon to me - the best descript...

Kids at my school weren't THAT bad - I never saw anyone really badly beaten up. About the worst of it was that we all got the occasional...

Several versions of this: Salute the King (military salute) Salute the queen (naval salute) Salute the German submarine (thumb your nose...

It's one of the first taunts I learned - and the one that taught me the "taunt rhythm," the meter and tones that make any song...

Here's one that was well known at my school: Tarzan, the monkey man got no brains, but he's got a tan A more common version see...

Here's a reader submission that the contributor first heard in 1984 in Placentia, CA. It would probably get kids in a lot more trouble ...

It is widely known that Eskimoes have some incredibly large number of words for "snow," with different terms for all the many type...

This is widely reported to be the most wide-spread of all playground songs. Personally, though, I never heard it as a kid. The tune "...