See you later alligator poem plus#

It was a wonderful moment as they made sure I didn’t leave without a beautiful memory. Well the end of my last day at work is already in the past, I’ve said my goodbyes and my colleagues said their good-byes too. At the same time I found comfort in knowing that some of my colleagues will keep in touch once in while and a very few special colleagues are naturally shifting into being friends, as they say, some doors close and others open. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave and I won’t see many of the people I met at work, ever again most probably. It was strange to be there knowing that in a few hours I will leave my work into other skilled people’s hands. This past Thursday was my last day at work and quite a strange and special day it was. Ha, something new I learned today that might come in very handy later when my daughter will start learning rhymes. GB appears to have it from 1926.Who doesn’t know this ‘good-bye’ verse? I guess the entire planet does and most people, myself included, know exactly this little verse but don’t know that there is more to it, it’s a children poem and song that’s been around for ages and you can actually add to it more rhymes, make up your own. I heard it from my grandparents in the 1950s. I am reminded of the elocutionary cliche’, “How now, brown cow?”Ĭould this have been the progenitor? (I’ve never encountered it used as a salutation, but Urbandictionary has.) It’s in HDAS in the citation block for “baboon.” I heard “Not too soon, you big baboon!” in 1970 as a comeback to “See you later, alligator!”

(I have a friend who used to say, “On the Nile….”)

While, crocodile” have never quite disappeared. Of course, “See you later, alligator” (’50s) and the response “In a Urban Dictionary has it only from May 8, 2011, but this site takes it back to 2007, with other similar inquiries, some perhaps nonce:Ī surprising rejuvenation of an old pattern from the ’40s: “What’sīuzzin’, cousin?” “What’s the story, morning glory?” I’ve been hearing this salutation daily on a Progressive Insurance commercial for weeks. And the intersection of a beaver and a duck is a …?Īnd now on ADS-L from Jon Lighter, 12/4/11: in a while, crocodile: S W S / S W S (or with accent reversal on crocodile)īonus: another Threadless shirt (by tenso GRAPHICS), on a mathematical theme:

See you later alligator poem plus#

Plus the classic response to #1 (not on the t-shirt):ġ5. have a good day, sting ray: S W W S / S S (or with accent reversal on sting ray) gotta go, buffalo: S W S / S W S (or with accent reversal on buffalo)ġ4. best wishes, little fishes: S S W /S W S Wġ3. another time, porcupine: W S W S / S W S (or with accent reversal on porcupine note half-rhyme)ġ1. see you soon, big baboon: S W S / S W Sġ0. ciao, brown cow: S / S S (only one S in G)ĩ. adieu, caribou: W S / S W S (iambic reversal in G) ħ. in a few, cockatoo: S W S / S W S (or with accent reversal on cockatoo)Ĥ. keep it real, spotted seal: S W S / S W Sģ. see you later, alligator: S W S W / S W S WĢ. Here’s the whole set, marked up metrically:ġ. In particular, a half-line can be missing its final W, as in #2 below. When a half-line has two S’s in it, the stronger of the two is marked by boldfacing: S.) (where S indicates a strongly accented syllable, W a weakly accented syllable, and / the division between G and V. see you later) and V (a vocative referring to a creature, e.g. My grand-daughter Opal showed up for breakfast this morning wearing a new t-shirt her mother had found for her on the Threadless site:īy Kacie Mills, the shirt has 14 instances of a verse form that I’ll call the Alligator Goodbye, on the model of “see you later, alligator” (at the top of the shirt).Īn Alligator Goodbye is a verse form, in trochaic tetrameter, a single line divided in two parts, G (a goodbye, e.g.