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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Radical how the same phenomenon can occur across the nation in different variants.

I hate you, you hate me
We hate each other can't you see
With a great big punch and a kick from me to you
Won't you say you hate me too

(less creativity with that one but it's the one I knew!)

This is crazy.

The one I heard on the school bus (and sadly participated in singing occasionally) was:

I hate you, you hate me
Let's get together and kill Barney
With a knife and a gun and a bullet to the head
Won't you say that Barney's dead

I most definitely was a Barney lover in my very early childhood. I think my 4th birthday party was even Barney and Friends themed, but I had to do a lot of growing up between pre-k and kindergarten. I feel like somewhere buried in the deep recesses of my faulty memory banks is a recollection of one of my elementary school teachers going around the class and asking children what their favorite program was and another kid mentioning Barney only to get snickers and chuckles for it. I was already a shy and insecure kid. For the sake of my blossoming mental health I had no choice but to leave that part of my life behind.

I think something similar may have happened in regards Santa Claus, but this time I feel like Imight've been that kid who believed in him just a little too long. Oh God this topic has opened a veritable Pandora's box of childhood memories and now I just want it to close.