As the butter said...

We're on a roll.

I'm trying to think of all the ways to start that joke about being on a roll, but, as the tree said to the lumberjack, I'm stumped. Also, some screaming, but you can't blame a tree for that. Or the blood.

Perhaps, "as mega man said, while in bed," could work, but I dunno... As the tire said? I'm completely out of ideas on the phrase.

In closing, as the mint jelly said, we're on the lamb.

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I am constantly amazed by the things that get passed on in a given culture over time. In particular, I am amazed and intrigued by the silly little games that we play as kids that still remain after years and years. I was watching Sky High tonight, you know, the disney movie about superhero high school. Shut up, it was good. Anyway, I was watching some of the behind the scene stuff, and I saw a bunch of the kids playing the slap game; you know the one, where one holds the hands above and the other below and you have to try and pull your hands back before the other person smacks them. It just sort of took me aback for a moment. I mean, I played that game in grade school (my brother and his wife still occasionally play it), here in Colorado, and something like ten years later or more, kids are still playing it, and all the way over in California. Heck, when you think about it, as kids we still learn to sing things like Ring Around the Rosie, and that's reported as going as far back as the 1790s. How cool is that?

I am reminded of a story written in the world of Foundation and Harri Seldon (I think by Orson Scott Card), wherein he researches in this vast library that works by association, specifically by the associations that people have in their memories with any particular word, phrase, etc., and it goes into detail about the whose nursery rhyme thing. But it still boggles my mind that little things we learn and do for fun don't ever really die, and not only do they pass on in one location, but people all over end up passing it on until these things are played by children all over the world. There's something so cool about the idea that you could be anywhere, at any time, and someone could start up a game like the hand-slap game, and everyone would immediately know how to play. Not that it's hard to pick up or anything, but still.