Eeny meeny miny mo...

[MoosMa]

What do we catch by the toe these days?

My mum had one that began

"Ippa-dippa-dation
My operation
How many people
At the station..."

How did that one continue?

Ibble obble chocolate bobble
Ibble obble out
Like a dirty dishcloth in side out
O - U - T spells out so OUT YOU GO!

Sorry - that wasn't how it continued - it was another silly one

Mickey Mouse
In his house
Pulling down his trousers

Quick Mum
Smack his bum
Um... can't remember the last line

Quick Mum
Smack his bum

That's the end of part one

Yay, I remembered it!

Could be wrong but heard years later that there was a fish called a nicker but like everyone else all my childhood did the racist one too. Not going to blush because I was truly innocent. Oh and too tired to google nicker but will do later, there is an anecdote to this but if you read this mamama will mail you as if posted here may be taken in the wrong context.

Don't mind her she went awol with a couple of Mexicans!

Sqirrel was the version we learnt at school in Zimbabwe 20 odd years ago.

I asked my kids what they sing and hte old rhymes have made a comeback since they did a project on it

A bit like Califrau's but small differences

eeny meeny macka racka
ray rye dominacka
chicka pocca
lollipoppa
Om Pom PUSH

NZ version on ibble obble was ..

ickle bickle
black bottle
ickle bickle
out,
if I catch you in my house
I will kick you right OUT.

(chosing rhyme for all important kids games)

and the eeny, meeny rhyme was incredibly racist when I learnt it (have since changed it) but I had NO idea what it meant - it was only a word for us when we were young (am shocked that we ever said it though!)

My boyfriend's name is Fatty
He comes from Arigatty
With a big red nose
And shiny white toes
And this is how my story goes

My boyfriend gave me an apple
My boyfriend gave me a pear
My boyfriend gave me a kick up the bum
And threw me down the stairs

I gave him back his apple
I gave him back his pear
I gave him back his kick up the bum
And threw him down the stairs

I threw him over England
I threw him over France
I threw him over Germany and
He lost his underpants

His underpants were yellow
His underpants were green
His underpants were yellow and green
And never to be seen seen seen!

sixkinds thats the one i was on about cept it went
ippydippydation
how many buses at the station
(person says 7)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
out spells out

We used to say
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a knicker by the toe....

I suppose we weren't very familiar with the n- word and had no idea what we were really saying....
(Just seen Mhamai's post....maybe it was the fish then. Or not!)

I never heard an 'Eeny meeny'-type rhyme in real life till I was about 12 - all our local ones were Ip Dip-based. The favourite was:
Ip dip doo
cat's got the flu
dog's got the chickenpox
so out goes you

We used Califrau's 'eeny meeny makka rakka' as part of the clapping rhyme that starts 'I went to a Chinese chip shop to buy a loaf of bread'

In answer to the OP - tiddler.

Ip dip dip,
my blue ship
Sailing on the water
like a cup and saucer
You are not it.

Could also be shortened to:
Ip dip dog sh*t.

Did the potatoes one.

Monkey, (although racist when I was a child)

Ip dip station,
corporation
how many buses in a london station?

ip dip dog shit
you are not it

If it hollars let it go

Do any of you hear the handstand rhyme;

Who can stand the longest
Oh no you cant
Under over pepsi cola un deux trois