melancholic-megafauna
taraxippos

Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

taraxippos

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

spikehunter

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here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

obtain-oatbin

I haven’t seen any other comments mention this so I gotta point out here that there may be less variation for the “joy to the world” barney murder song because that one appeared in an early episode of the simpsons (the one where lisa gets a crush on nelson I think) so I suspect that solidified that one a lot more in people’s heads

I don't think the simpsons writers wrote it tho I think they were pulling from real life kids singing itbut I had no idea for years that they coined the word “yoink” so I could be wrong there
melancholic-megafauna
taraxippos

Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

taraxippos

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

spikehunter

image

here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

hera-salander
samatonin-deactivated20231101

it’s so infuriating people try to make you feel so old once you hit 25. we are so young, there is so much to see & do. we’re going to grow & learn so much. feeling old for 3/4 of your life isn’t the way to do it

it helped me to hang around some nice old ladiessomeone twice your age isn't going to let it slide if you call yourself “old” lolthey're going to laugh in your fuckin faceand that can be nice! bc yeah 20s 30s 40s isn't old25 is just an odd time of life where you're juuust old enough that you're not a young person anymoremilestones are fewer and further between. that kind of thing