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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

529.0. ""Puddin' Tame" or "Pudding and Tame" origin" by POOL::HALLYB (Emergency cancellation Archimedes) Wed Jun 08 1988 18:09

    "Blue moon" was so successful I thought I'd ask about another term
    that's bothered me for some time now.  I'll leave it to Eric to
    supply the music, but many years back there was a song where the
    singer gives his name as:
    
    "Puddin' Tane, Puddin' Tane,
     Ask me again, I'll tell you the same."
    
    or thereabouts.  Maybe it was properly pronounced "Pudding and Tane",
    which for all I know is the 1920s equivalent of Curds and Whey.
    
    What's the origin of the term "Pudding and Tane" or "Puddin' Tane",
    and how does that relate to somebody giving it as their name?
    
      John

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
529.1	My mother taught me.	VAXRT::CANNOY	Down the river of Night's dreaming	`Wed Jun 08 1988 18:57`	19
	I learned it as a word game, never heard it as a song. 1: What's your name? 2: Puddin Tame 1: Where do you live? 2: Down the lane. 1: What's your number? 2: Cucumber. 1: What do you do? 2: Teach school. 1: What do you teach? 2: Silly things like you. Tamzen
529.2	an old friend :-)	VOLGA::B_REINKE	where the sidewalk ends	`Thu Jun 09 1988 05:18`	12
	Tamzen, I learned that with out the last two pairs of questions and answers.. and after the cucumber I got tickled or I tickled my kids... over the years this became a silly game...with my Dad, when I was little answering 'horseradish' where cucumber went..and my youngest daughter and I going on to mix up the answers and get generally silly about the whole thing.. Bonnie
529.3		VAXRT::CANNOY	Down the river of Night's dreaming	`Thu Jun 09 1988 19:20`	7
	Yep, it was a general invitation to a tickle attack where I grew up, too. Come to think of it I know some little kids who may not know this yet. Time to pass on the knowledge. Tamzen Anyone know more about the song?
529.4		HERON::BUCHANAN	a small Bear travels through a Forest	`Fri Jun 10 1988 11:56`	5
	Ask me a riddle and I reply, Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie A.A.Milne, Winnie the Pooh
529.5	Why for .4?	POOL::HALLYB	Lookit all the happy creatures dancin' on the lawn	`Fri Jun 10 1988 22:01`	5
	re: .4 Does this imply that Cottleston Pie is one and the same as Pudding and Tame? John
529.6	brings back memories :-(	GAO::DKEATING	Not all that shivers is cold	`Thu Jun 16 1988 13:18`	10
	The way I heard it was... Whats your name? Butter and craem (Irish accent, ae instead of ea) Where do you live? Down the lane Etc etc.