Talk:Itsy Bitsy Spider

message: It's been quite a while, but ISTR that the events of the rhyme occurred in the rain-gutter system of the roof of a house, rather than a teapot. Would seem likelier for rain to occur there. - knoodelhed 18:04, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Setting of story

message: The itsy bitsy spider can be viewed as a metaphor for the failure of urination as a female method of birth control. The story is sweetly ironic where a mother lovingly teaches the child the  nursery rhyme as the child demonstrates the mistake of not using a more effective contraceptive method. This instruction is now given by mothers to adolescent girls more directly and is reinforced by the girl realizing, finally, that she exists because of that misconception (sic). The joke is on her and, is her. I can still hear the mother's call as a young woman leaves on a date; "Don't forget the Itsy Bitsy Spider!"
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Are you a vandal or something? Give me a break!
:Yet ever so creative, for which I give credit. Ha! :) Fieryrogue 22:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Itsy Bitsy Spider as Irony  

message: In The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series), the first several notes of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" form the ringtone programmed into Peter Parker's mobile phone. On one occasion, the ringtone ironically foils Spider-Man's sneak attack of the Lizard. Glenn L (talk) 02:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ringtone

message: The first version given here talks of "The itsy bitsy spider", thereby giving "itsy bitsy" as an adjective describing the spider.  The second version ("Incy Wincy spider") implies that "Incy Wincy" is the spider's name, which is how I've always interpreted it.  Does anybody have any idea which is the correct or original interpretation? — Smjg (talk) 18:45, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name or description? 

message: On The Pony Rider Series Episode Nightmare Moon Strikes Again (2007) The Nightmare Band (Nightmare Moon Celestea Cadence And Shining Armor) Performed A Rock And Roll Version Of The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Alt Lyrics Climbed Up The Walter Spout)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.2.193 (talk) 18:57, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock And Roll 

message: During a talkback on (Australian) ABC radio Trevor Chappell's Overnights program 22 July in which a number of callers discussed this song, an overwhelming majority (including the presenter) knew the words as "Incy Wincy". Is this version unique to Oz? Doug butler (talk) 12:58, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional variations 

message: What about the Hungarian origin? I'm a native Hungarian speaker, and the we have "ici-pici" and "icike-picike", "piciri", "pirinyó", "piti", etc words. You can find these in more hundred years old Hungarian books, newspapers, fabulas, songs and poems too. These are very common used Hungarian words. For example if you want a coffee in a restaurant and the waiter ask you about the sugar and you want just a few, you can say that: "Csak egy picit" or "ici-picit". There are a few Hungarian origin words in every European language, the English is not an exception.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by H Miki (talk • contribs) 01:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: I was about to "revert" an edit of mine, but I realized I should probably ask first. To quote the summary I was gonna use, "I could see where User:Doug butler is coming from (deleting that much is a bad idea [he called my edit 'indiscriminate wholesale blanking']). However, mentioning a song's cover versions is unnecessary."
:I do agree to a point. Itsy Bitsy Spider is not Here Comes the Sun, but it's a popular article, and a lot of people come to Wikipedia for that sort of information. I'm not particularly concerned with nursery rhymes, but got involved because only the American version (Itsy Bitsy) was mentioned, and I knew nothing but "Incey Wincey". And it's fascinating how pointless little things permeate popular culture. "Memes" I think it's called. Doug butler (talk) 22:35, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion Fancruft?