[batman] Some links on the children’s rhyme “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away!”
- Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy … A wonderful analysis of the many versions of Batman Smells. ‘As some of you know, I work in lexicography but came to this work via a science background, and it felt very much like what I was looking at was taxonomy: an evolutionary tree if you will, with certain characteristics conserved between different forms of the rhyme, while mutations cause changes which are selected—or not—by the playground troubadours, and die out or spread, to mutate again.’
- Batman Slapping Robin Meme … ‘LAY AN EGG BITCH!!!’
- The Secret True History Of 'Jingle Bells, Batman Smells' … ‘So, children of the 1960s would’ve been used to hearing several different (and politically charged) versions of “Jingle Bells” by the time Batman had his TV debut. What’s most noteworthy about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” is that, once invented, it’s persisted in the public consciousness right up to this very day.’
‘Jingle Bells, Batman Smells…’ – Origins and Taxonomy Links
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