early_riserMar 9

What is your favorite bit of childlore?

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What is your favorite bit of childlore? - Lemmy.World

Childlore is folklore passed directly between children, without the input of adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore] Stuff I can think of off the top of my head are paper fortune tellers, summoning Bloody Mary/the candyman, the cool S, parody songs like “Jingle bells Batman Smells” and “Joy to the world, the teacher’s dead” etc. This stuff has intrigued me since, well since I was a kid. I always wondered where they came from. I never saw adults doing that stuff, so I figured another kid had to have come up with it.

Show threadMouselemmingMar 9
This might be local but “Deem!” as the sound of magical transformation. As an adult I think some child heard/read something like “I deem you Sir Galahad, Knight of the Round Table” and mixed it up with cartoon magic sounds, but in our neighborhood any kid with a good stick could wave it and say “Deem! You’re a horse!” or “Deem! You’re a frog!” and the other kid would act the part for awhile. You could even deem yourself, like “Deem! I’m a wizard!” Which is redundant now that I think of it.
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Are you sure it wasn’t “dwayne”?
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Show threadMouselemmingMar 19
My childhood was in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, so it’s very possible the cartoon’s author had the same background and Dwayne is a humorous twist on Deem.
Show threadearly_riserMar 19
IDK but the Brothers Chaps are from Georgia. I was just trying to be funny.
Show threadMouselemmingMar 19
Well you succeeded, and now I have to go learn more about them and their work! (so I can’t possibly do any of my chores rn)
Show threadearly_riserMar 19
oh you’re welcome. Homestar Runner was a staple of the 2000s. The original site used to be all in Flash until adobe killed it, which they comment on here. There used to be a “disturbingly comprehensive” wiki, but it seems to have been buried by bot traffic. The domain is pingable but http requests time out.
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