Criss-Cross Applesauce. If you heard that, would you know what it means? See, I thought it was fairly common. A childhood saying that extended to everyone. So when I taught it to Sammy last week, I thought nothing of it. He, however, thought it hilarious and immediately told Isaac. Who looked at me like I had grown another head. All that afternoon, that was the go-to HI-larious phrase in our household. Criss-cross applesauce for EVERYTHING funny. Apparently Isaac had never heard it.
However, it's not like I burst into renditions of "Guadaliacci" or "Pigs Caligs" which WOULD have warranted a crazy look. Because those songs are just Cah-razy. This was just criss cross applesauce...RIght? RIGHT?! Oh dear heaven. Maybe it is just me.
So roll call. Just me? It's in the urban dictionary, so I'm going with no, but...
(kris kross, jump)
I don't remember Guadaliacci, but I see nothing wrong with Pigs Caligs, and actually sing it a fair bit... most people just put it down to an American thing... Oh, and I am fairly certain that I heard "Evil" Alan say criss-cross applesauce on Two and a Half Men the other night...
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I've heard of doing criss cross applesauce. And I think we called it Waddleochey or something. The doodley do thing right? Maybe I'm off my rocker now...
ReplyDeleteOoooooh. No, Maggie, you are right. I think at some point someone in our family changed it to be funny and that's how I remember it now. Or I changed it in my mind...Maybe I'M the crazy one!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the guadaliacci thing is, but I would just die if ever found anyone else who had ever heard of Pigs Caligs, though. Mom, where did we even get that record, anyway?
ReplyDeleteAs for Criss Cross Applesauce, I had never heard that until my kids started school. I assumed it was a Utah thing; Sammy'll hear it a lot next year.
Pigs Caligs? no idea...
ReplyDeletebut I thought everyone knew about Criss Cross Applesauce and Guadaliacci... just wait until your husband knows a different version of "cooma la vistay" yeah, I have no idea how to spell it, but you might know the song, "oh no, no not da vistay, eenie meenie desameenie..." well, that can cause some problems in the family traditions department, let me tell ya!
I learned it as Indian Style when I was in kindergarten . . . probably wouldn't go over so well now. Never heard criss cross applesauce until high school, which gives credit to the Utah thing theory.
ReplyDeleteYeah...but I heard it in elementary school. So not so much with the Utah...And if it were a Utah thing, you would THINK Isaac would have heard it and not me. Right?
ReplyDeleteSharon - Pigs Caligs...didn't it have a piano songbook with the little 45 record?
Shoot. If you google pigs caligs, the only thing that comes up is this post...
ReplyDeleteHave no idea where we got it.
ReplyDeleteI will look for it, didn't we have a book that had it in it ?
ReplyDeleteMom - I think it was a spiral bound white piano book with a flimsy 45 in an envelop in it. Was it the same book that had Dan, Dan, The Funny Old Man in it?
ReplyDeleteI am clearly uneducated or at least came from the same great state your husband did. No idea what it is. sigh.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of criss cross applesauce until the kids started school. I thought it was brilliant! ha! I'm such a simple minded person!
ReplyDeleteLora - maybe it didn't penetrate into Grace. Interesting. And I was hoping you'd answer! Because had YOU known. Well, Isaac would have heard about it!
ReplyDeleteBeing a teacher, I've totally heard it. But...I don't think I heard UNTIL I was a teacher...like, not in elementary school.
ReplyDeleteAnd....really?! Are you REALLY blogging at 4:59 A.M.?!
Ha! No. I blog usually at night and set it to post the next morning...
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of any of those things, except the Criss Cross Apple Sauce...which I only learned when Hudson started preschool and his teachers taught him.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I've lived in Utah almost my entire life!
ReplyDeleteFound Dan, Dan funny old man. But not the other yet.
ReplyDeleteFOUND IT In a book Sing-Along Tunes for Tots. Pigs Ka-Ligs and also Dan a Funny Old Man, along with a lot of other you all had fun with.
ReplyDeleteHuh. I didn't think I would recognize it AT ALL, but I totally remember this!
ReplyDeletehttp://cgi.ebay.com/Sing-Along-Tunes-Tots-w-Record-Louise-Baughman-1978-/180207232047
Thanks, Mom!
That's the one.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in California-- so I don't think the Utah theory holds water.
ReplyDeleteLacy- the eenie meenie desameenie thing rings a bell. Not sure which one though. I think our version had eenie meenie desameenie ooo whap a whalameenie desameenie wallameenie ooo whap a wha. Which reminds me of the skit skat mosquito song.
Good post Tawnya.
Only my younger kids' teachers used criss-cross. The older ones used "sit on your pockets" a lot, but I like criss-cross more.
ReplyDeleteAs for waddaliachi and pigs-Kaligs, I hadn't thought of them for years!!!! Thanks for the memories
Maggie - I really enjoyed seeing you type all of that out...
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh--that's the one! I totally recognize the book. Hilarious! (idle-ee-igs...)
ReplyDeleteNow the real question is this; is this the same book that weirdo keirdo comes from?
just subscribing....
ReplyDeleteI was singing Pigs-Kaligs ALL DAY yesterday. Sigh....
ReplyDelete(and, yay! can you subscribe again?)
I could always subscribe, just only by leaving a second comment, which I hate doing. I save it for only the very most riveting of conversations.
ReplyDeleteWell. This CLEARLY counts!
ReplyDeleteSharon I just went and looked, and weirdo keirdo isn't in that one.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of criss-cross applesauce until my son went to preschool down here in Cali. I spent half my life in Georgia and half in Utah before moving to Cali. It was always Indian style to me. I guess that's not very PC.
ReplyDeleteTotally forgot about Waddaliacha.
Never heard of Pigs Ka-ligs.
Isn't it funny the things we learn growing up?
We have a few in my family that when I reference them my husband looks at me like I just grew a third eyeball in the middle of my forehead. (Hurdely-burdely, gamboo disease, Mr. Johnny Rebeck, Home again, home again...)