First the Worst...

Aug 18, 2010 12:59



Did you have a version of this? I'm collecting all the ones I can, so if you do please share it!

It's a schoolyard chant type thing recited by children who didn't come first after a race or contest, but there's lot of local variants with some appealingly odd and surreal positions and stations. The lampost-ghost is my favorite. From what I'm hearing, it's possibly just a british thing, though I have one account of it from Australia.

Things we can learn from this chart -
 The first two steps are immutable, the third has the most varience and forth is the point of branching out into incompatible paths. Also, there seems to be no record of any seventh ranking. Probably because nothing rhymes with seventh*, and the pattern seem to suggest seven should be a rhyming step.

*Except eleventh.  And that would be too confusing.
 

kid stuff, flow chart

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