Alright, here we go.

Out of 21 Respondents, 2 didn't even know there were echoes to the song, though they knew the song itself.

In the first echo...

90.9% echo "Like Monopoly!"
4.5% echo "Like football!"
4.5% echo "Like Hoofball!"

I find this interesting, because it seems to be the only really hard and fast echo that everyone singss, other than the "Real Echo" echoes (eg "Reindeer!").

I don't really understand the reason why this one is the universal one, given the variations within some of the other echoes (more on that in a moment. It reaches across genders, ages, and locations (I'd say ethnicities, but I only got Caucasian responses).

I would imagine it has something to do with, as Sam mentioned over on Rinkworks, when I posted my survey other there, the stressed syllables with in the word. "Monopoly" starts with an unstressed then goes into a stressed syllable, which fits into the rhythm of the music.

Though, now the question becomes, where did Monopoly come from in the first place, and how did it become so universally popular? It was suggested to me that it's because Monopoly is a universally popular game, so that's why it's a Reindeer Game.

About the only variation I've ever heard is one guy I knew many many years ago who sang "Like parcheesi!"

I must admit, though, that when the response "Like hoof-ball!" showed up in my inbox, it almost made my head explode.

Second Echo

70.8% say Yippee!
8.2% say Whoopee!
8.2% say Like the Toothpaste!
4.1% say He he!
4.1% say With Glee!
4.1% had no echo.

Again, when two people- TWO people- responded, at the EXACT SAME TIME with "Like the toothpaste!" I almost died. I had no idea that was even an echo, had never heard it before in my life, and didn't have any clue what on earth it could possibly refer to. It was only after extensive amounts of digging, and an exhaustive amount of research in dusty archives of the Library of Congree (not really- I just asked my dad), I learned that it was a reference to Gleam Toothpaste.

I thought this one would be the most varied in response, because of the sheer volume of happy noises it's possible to make. I myself sing "Eee-Hee!" when I get there, but most people sing "Yippee!" and, again, it seems to stretch over ages, genders and demographics.

I guess we can assume this means that Yippee is the unofficial sound of Happiness. Which is interesting in and of itself.

The third echo is where it gets competitive.

39.1% echo "Like Columbus!"
39.1% echo "Like George Washington!"
13% echo "Like Abe Lincoln!"
4.3% echo "With Me!"
4.3 % echo "Like the President!"

Guys sing Washington than Columbus by almost 2 to 1 (according to this highly unscientific survey, anyway), and girls pick Columbus over Washington by almost 3 to 1.

It surprised me a little bit that Columbus and Washington were split right down the middle. I thought there would be more Columbi than Washingtons, but that's my own personal bias speaking. I grew up with "Like Columbus," and it's only version I ever heard up until about three or four years ago.

So, yeah, I think that's about it. I apologize for this being so barebones and lackluster, but I'm really not much of a statistician. This was only supposed to be for my own curiosity, and some of the answers that came in were given in conversation, so it's more or less incomplete, and thus highly unscientific.

If anyone would like to look over the emails and put together findings of their own that are, perhaps, more complete, I would be more than willing to pass them along. Just send me an email.

And there you go.