True story.

[conuly]

Once I was on a bus, and heard three boys in the back trying to alter the words to "Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider" so as to insult girls. They kept failing. EVERY TIME. I LOL'd, I really did.

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[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

In my day, Canadian girls went to Mars to eat chocolate bars, of course - we don't call them candy bars here. :-D

[conuly]

Come to think, I'm not sure what *we* call them! I'd be inclined to say "a bar of chocolate", or maybe use the specific term. Hm....

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

I remember first encountering "candy bar" in Archie comics as a small child, and being confused because here the word candy is reserved for sweets that don't have chocolate in them, and Mars and Snickers and all that are chocolate bars. For some reason, I always imagined that a candy bar was a big stick of chewy toffee.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have never heard that song/chant/rhyme before, but I wonder if it is related to the song my friends and I used to sing: "There's a land called Mars, where the ladies smoke cigars, and the men run around, with their dinks all hanging down." (I think "dink" was probably supposed to be "dick.")

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Hee - at the schools I attended, it was: "There's a land called Mars, where the ladies smoke cigars / and the men don't care, 'cause they wear no underwear / and the kids don't mind, 'cause they're naked all the time." Schoolyard memes are fascinating things.

[conuly]

I don't think so. That one is pretty unambiguously parodied (many iterations ago) from "Poor Little Country Maid". The spoken melody of "Boys Go to Jupiter" is different, as is the rhythm, including the pauses. They could be related, but I don't think they are.

Not that I have any *evidence*, of course.

[conuly]

There's a town in France/Where the ladies don't wear pants/And the men don't care/Cuz they don't wear underwear

[azurelunatic]

On my bus, it wasn't girls going to Mars, nor boys going to Jupiter, just people. Venus was evidently the sex-change planet, because everyone went there to get a penis.

[appadil.livejournal.com]

At my camp, it was "And the men wear bikinis/ and the babies drink martinis".

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Around here it is indeed a candy bar, whether Mars or Hershey's.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We never heard this one before. We just think it's cool. We're going to learn it and drive the adults here crazy with it. Bwah hah haaa.

[conuly]

When you get bored, you do know "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves", right?

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

In my day, Canadian girls went to Mars to eat chocolate bars, of course - we don't call them candy bars here. :-D

[conuly]

Come to think, I'm not sure what *we* call them! I'd be inclined to say "a bar of chocolate", or maybe use the specific term. Hm....

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

I remember first encountering "candy bar" in Archie comics as a small child, and being confused because here the word candy is reserved for sweets that don't have chocolate in them, and Mars and Snickers and all that are chocolate bars. For some reason, I always imagined that a candy bar was a big stick of chewy toffee.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have never heard that song/chant/rhyme before, but I wonder if it is related to the song my friends and I used to sing: "There's a land called Mars, where the ladies smoke cigars, and the men run around, with their dinks all hanging down." (I think "dink" was probably supposed to be "dick.")

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Hee - at the schools I attended, it was: "There's a land called Mars, where the ladies smoke cigars / and the men don't care, 'cause they wear no underwear / and the kids don't mind, 'cause they're naked all the time." Schoolyard memes are fascinating things.

[conuly]

I don't think so. That one is pretty unambiguously parodied (many iterations ago) from "Poor Little Country Maid". The spoken melody of "Boys Go to Jupiter" is different, as is the rhythm, including the pauses. They could be related, but I don't think they are.

Not that I have any *evidence*, of course.

[conuly]

There's a town in France/Where the ladies don't wear pants/And the men don't care/Cuz they don't wear underwear

[azurelunatic]

On my bus, it wasn't girls going to Mars, nor boys going to Jupiter, just people. Venus was evidently the sex-change planet, because everyone went there to get a penis.

[appadil.livejournal.com]

At my camp, it was "And the men wear bikinis/ and the babies drink martinis".

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Around here it is indeed a candy bar, whether Mars or Hershey's.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We never heard this one before. We just think it's cool. We're going to learn it and drive the adults here crazy with it. Bwah hah haaa.

[conuly]

When you get bored, you do know "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves", right?