My boys have made up a new song, which they have taken to singing all the time. It goes something like this (you can sing along, you'll know the tune).
Bye Bye Miss American POO
Drove my Chevvy to the levy and the levy was POO
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and POO
Singing this will be the day that I POO.
Did I mention we are in the middle of a toilet humour phase?
The worrying thing for me is that every single uncle, godfather, male friend that I have mentioned this little ditty to has fallen about in hysterics. It is looking like being in the 'middle' of the toilet humour phase may be a hopeful assessment of the situation. It could well be a few decades yet before they stop finding shouting POO funny. Sigh.
Oh no, too tiring. This obsession lasts a lifetime with boys and men doesn't it? Today at lunch my four year old said to my husband 'Daddy that chicken leg has got brown on it which looks like poo, that means it was in a chicken's bottom'. Very funny trying to watch my husband eat it after that!
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha, we have had a poo song all week too, something about tidy up the poo needs space
ReplyDeleteVery funny men just love poo humour don't they I don't think they ever grow out of it
ReplyDeleteand not just boys, one of my twinnies adds poo poo, wee wee after most sentences. She is only 2 for goodness sake!!! The joys of having a big brother. Mich x
ReplyDeleteThat made me laugh far more than it should. The ditty itself, for starters, and then your attempts to seek sympathy among your male relatives.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. The poo stage doesn't go on for ever. Soon you'll be into farts and willies.
Ha ha ha!! Yep, sounds familiar. I live with 4 boys, my 3yr old is in the all song lines end with poo stage too. And of course OH and older boys keep it going. Glad to hear i'm not the only one suffering right now! lol.
ReplyDeleteSal. X
Love it, they may yet have a vocation for songwriting.
ReplyDeleteYup - I think that toilet humour stays with them pretty much for life!
ReplyDeleteDuring the last bad snow my 8 year old wrote poo and my husband changed it to 'boom' so the neighbours woulnd't be offended. Anyway, I asked my husband what the attraction was to the word and he said it was funny all their lives!! Similar find to you then, sigh. Jen
ReplyDeleteI remember asking my son's teacher about this - her advice was ' ignore it and think of a happy place....!' xx
ReplyDeleteThe Littleboys would love that song. Poo and bottoms are the flavour of the month here, too, sadly......
ReplyDeleteWe're in touch with our inner selves.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a grown man, but they have found something versatile there. (Rather like the guy who re-captioned every New Yorker cartoon he could find with 'Christ, what an asshole', and found it always works... :))
ReplyDeleteMaybe just tell yourself they're exploring the flexibility of the English language? (It probably wouldn't work so well with Bosnian...)
Made me laugh! And I'm just waiting for B to come back through so I can show him. Because, yes, he's male, and yes, he'll spit tea all over the computer because he'll laugh so hard....
ReplyDeleteSometimes I'm very glad I have girls.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I love it. I nearly spat tea over the computer even though I don't drink tea. Yours happily, Plan B's supposedly sensible 37-year-old husband, B (although I don't think that is why it is Plan B). I clearly haven't grown out of that phase yet...
ReplyDeleteI still think shouting poo is funny...
ReplyDeleteNoooooooooooooo I don't need any more pooooooooooooooo! We are also at that stage in their lives. It is not funny and it is not clever but their giggles are infectious and I can never keep a straight face!
ReplyDeleteMen. Honestly.
ReplyDeleteApparently the toilet humour stage is the phase they never grow out of. 'Pee po belly bum drawers' was on the radio last week, and it's still reducing all four boys in my house to hysteria. The oldest is 37...
ReplyDeleteEmily O - I'd have enjoyed watching that very much. I find poo jokes funny.. for a while...
ReplyDeleteMH - a constructive poo joke. I shall try that one out here, it might just work.
Kerry - me neither. I might need to have a daughter for some female company in this house. The dog, although female does roll in poo so I obviously can't count on her support.
Michelle - big brothers, they do baaaaad things!
Iota - it made me laugh a lot the first time I heard it. Next post the happy birthday fart song that they have also made up...
Resewn Sally - must be a 3 year old stage, but they do get so encouraged by those who should know better.
Not Supermum - the next Tim Rice's. You saw it here first.
Mummmeeeeeee - sadly so. sadly so.
Jen - At least your husband is vaguely sensible occasionally about poo. Mine just roars with laughter.
Belgravia wife - Happy place here I come.. for the next couple of decades or so.
NVG - wish it was just a month...
ReplyDeleteOwen - more than I'd like to know!
Hampshire Flyer - at least I probably wouldn't know what they were saying when they really got going in Bosnian. Love the New Yorker option, it really would work well!
Plan B - Come on over next time you are in London. Then my boys can teach your girls all about how to have fun shouting poo.
Mr. Plan B - see above comment. We'll get our hands on your girls and then you'll suffer too ah hahhahahaha
Mwa - welcome to my house. I won't even notice you are here.
Tattie Weasel - another mother of 2 boys. You understand. You feel the pain. And so annoying that giggling when you are trying to be serious. It is a killer to the discipline act I'm trying to put on !
TM - you said it. Don't think your students age boys will have improved much. Men are just lucky we occasionally find them funny otherwise why do we ever think shacking up with them is a good idea?
A&U - It's tragic. So tragic. Do you know if you are having another boy yet?
Mr Plan B actually found it so amusing he not only kept me awake sniggering, but he sang it to himself all day yesterday... I suspect he will be leaping at that invitation!
ReplyDeleteThis song is genius. I'll be sure not to teach it to my four-year-old who is most definitely in the 'everything poo is funny' stage. Boys!
ReplyDeleteI'm generally pretty anti poo stuff but manage to find my own knock knok joke pretty funny nonetheless, made up at nappy time a while back.
ReplyDeleteKnock knock.
Who's there?
Poo
Poo who?
Poo poo
The best thing is it's guaranteed to get a smile out of him when I want to take a picture!