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Re: Hey, I need some assistance!
Posted By: Sam, on host 198.51.119.157
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 11:16:26
In Reply To: Re: Hey, I need some assistance! posted by RiftTraveler on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at 13:34:56:

> Ah, see, that's the entire point of the study. To see if anything like that tracks true.

I did a little googling and ran across someone speculating that "Columbus" was more of a West Coast thing, while "George Washington" more of an East Coast thing. Possible, but it's interesting to me that Chrysanthemum reports both ways from a single household.

> > (Riftie: I'm 34, white, and grew up all over the world.)
>
> Also, Sam, what do you sing for the other two echoes?

I don't remember, honestly. The lyrics I found while googling sounded right, but I don't know. I'm kind of surprised I don't remember for sure.

> And where were you living when you first learned the song?

Not somewhere useful to you. I may very well have been exposed to it in northern Virginia, but where I remember it most was on an American military base in Germany. The kids around me would have been from all over the United States.

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