Plainsies, Clapsies
A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running cartwheel; the repai
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I seem to remember the redheaded character, so I must have seen the movie at least once.
But I certainly do not recall the song nor that Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney where the primary voices for 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town'.
Wow! Thanks for the smile.
Do you recommend the movie as a whole?
I also remember thinking that the young red-headed school teacher, Jessica, who becomes Mrs. Kris Kringle, was the paragon of stop-action beauty (human beauty, that is - otherwise Clarice from Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer would win).
And while I'm expounding on the virtues of old Rankin/Bass gems, The Little Drummer Boy is the one that still haunts me. They took that off the air a long time ago, but not before it damaged my psyche! Man, it's scary - bad men kill his parents and paint a smile on his face and force him to play the drums! His pet gets killed and is reanimated because he plays the drums for baby Jesus. Crikey!
But enough about that. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Everybody now, "Put one foot in front of the other. . ."
(I sense a chorus song in the making.)