Stupid things you used to say at school

[SushiSheep]

Don't even know why this popped into my head just now, but did anyone else use to say (I'm turning myself inside out just writing this! 😂)
"Marry it/her/him then!" whenever someone said they loved something.

What other cringey things did you use to say at school, or in your youth that makes you think what the......

Milk milk
Lemonade
Round the corner
Chocolate's made

At my school: zero the hero, first the worst, second the best, third the one with the golden dress, fourth the one with the golden gun. I have no idea why.

A few more from primary-

Cat's got the measles, dog's got the flu, baby's got the chicken pox so out goes you!

I'm Popeye the sailor man. I live in a caravan. And when I go swimming I kiss all the women. I'm Popeye the sailor man.

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away. The Batmobile lost a wheel on the M6 motorway.

If you needed a time out from a chasing game you crossed your fingers and said 'jets'. If you didn't want to play you claimed to have 'jets for life without holding'.

I can't remember more but I know when I read the Opies' 'Lore and Language of Schoolchildren' (from 1959!) which is all about this sort of thing, a surprising amount of it was familiar, despite many school generations having passed.

Oh My God! I remember this counting rhyme from when I was at school, but in all my years of nannying I've never come across anyone else who knows it! What region/which era were you at school?!

Ah, so this would have been in the mid-80s as I started primary school soon after we moved to England - West Sussex. Hello fellow ippa dippa!

Does anyone remember a rhyme:

'I'm telling on you!
You licked my lolly and
you never said sorry!
I'm telling on you!'

How funny, I was mid 90s Hertfordshire but I've never known another person who knows it! I trying to pass it on to my little munchkins but they prefer the old 'Eenie meenie, minee mo'.

This made me laugh. 😄 I would clear a space, raise and lower arms several times in preparation then go for it. 🤸‍♂️ 🤣

Fnar came from Viz, and meant someone had said something unintentionally rude like 'nice pear vicar'

Nora Batty was in Last of the Summer Wine - love interest of Compo!

Weird! Pockets of time!

I'm trying to think what else there was...

Flea!
Flea fly
Flea fly
Cumberlala cumberlala cumberlala fleasta
Cumberlala cumberlala cumberlala fleasta
Oh no no, no no la fleasta
Oh no no, no no la fleasta
Eenie meenie sallameenie you are the one-a-meenie
Estamella sallamesta you are the one!

Anyone else, just me?!

I remember this one!

We had a rhyme called Victor and Mary which is too rude to repeat on here but it was definitely in primary school.

“Beeeard!!!” while stroking/pulling one’s imaginary long beard hair downwards. I think it meant you didn’t believe what someone said. A progression from ‘itchy chin’ I think!

We called them greebo’s!

Interesting! I was at primary school in Hertfordshire in the 1970s and haven’t heard ippa dippa since then.

We did the "Who wants to play [game name] too, usually with "no boys/ girls allowed" added on.

Most of the time whatever game it was never ended up being played.

BEEEEEARD whenever someone told a porky

Ip dip sky blue,
Who's it? Not you,
Not because you're dirty
Not because you're clean
But my mum says you're the fairy queen
So out you must go
Because my mum says SO!

We also had skill - and if an enemy claimed to be or have skill, we had the reposte that skill is an American bum disease.

"Clear a space" has just done me in 🤣

I think if you were the PLP, some one could rest against you or lean next to you.

We didn't use chinny reckon but it was "smee" for some reason with a beard action.

Sos yer maw.

Yer cats are deid - trousers too short

Nigel for someone with no pals.

West of Scotland primary 89-96

I taught this to my 7YO just before Christmas!

Yes, and there were a couple of variations which will no doubt come to me at 3am.

When they do, share them! I think there's another about a dustbin...

Along with Itchy beard if we thought someone was lying we’d also say.. Yeah right, Ernie Jacobs!
No clue why or who Ernie Jacobs was.
In secondary school I remember all of our work books were covered in scribblings like .. Mark Owen is a Sort 4 eva 😂

"Are you a PLP?"

Yes - Ha you're a Public Leaning Post (everyone aggressively leans on you)

No - Hahaha you're not a Proper Living Person (everyone aggressively shuns you)

I was talking about you, not to you.