If you trawl Pedestrian.TV every hour on the hour, you’d have come across this article we wrote about a woman who called the cops ‘cos she had a spider in her bedroom. It’s a good yarn, read it if you haven’t as yet.
Well, when I, the writer of said yarn, was trying to come up with that spicy Facebook copy you all know and love, I threw out to the office “What about that part in ‘Incy Wincy Spider‘? You know, down the water spout or whatever”.
WELL. WELL, WELL, WELL. Did this start a screaming match or did this start a screaming match.
It seems the Ped.TV team is aggressively divided over whether the famous kids nursery rhyme no Aussie could have avoided in their formative years is actually titled ‘Incy Wincy Spider‘ or ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider‘.
Things that have been said by unnamed team members:
“IT’S FUCKING INCY WINCY YOU HEATHENS”
“Itsy Bitsy is the cooked American version”
“I am seriously going to come over there if you say Incy Wincy again”
Google? It does not help matters. As our Deputy Editor James correctly informed us, Wikipedia has it as ‘Itsy Bitsy’. It does, at least, acknowledge that some people may call it ‘Incy Wincy’.
But YouTube is fucked up as fucked up can be. Here’s ‘Incy Wincy Spider’.
But wait! Here’s ITSY BITSY SPIDER.
INCY WINCY.
ITSY BITSY.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, GUYS. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. WHAT IS IT. I’LL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN UNTIL I KNOW.
I’m even doubting what I previously knew to be absolute truth at this point. This is ‘The Dress’ but in nursery rhyme form.
This entire story is literally to help us clear this shit up. Go tell us in the Facebook comments which one you learnt at school so we can once and for all figure this fuckery out.
