Cooties

March 28th, 2011 by admin

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  1. George Reynolds:

    April 10th, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    Just to confirm that school children were using the term cooties before 1967: I can remember the word from the 4th grade in 1955.

  2. aleksandar:

    June 21st, 2011 at 8:29 am

    To confirm, the Tagalog word “kuto” means louse

  3. Topi Linkala:

    July 3rd, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    How todays anti-microbial wipes are marketed we are getting into the bizzare situation where our toilets are cleaner than our kitchens.

  4. MarkB:

    December 27th, 2012 at 1:02 am

    Cootie Williams played trumpet in the Duke Ellington band, and later led his own band. He was born in 1911. Wikipedia sez:

    “According to Williams he got his nickname when, as a boy, his father took him to a band concert. When it was over his father asked him what he’d heard and the lad replied “Cootie,cootie, cootie”

    Somehow I doubt that self-reported story.

  5. Anonymous:

    August 25th, 2019 at 4:54 am

    The Game of Cootie, in which children competed to complete the building of their own outsized plastic bugs, was released in 1949. It was very popular in the 1950s, when kids had already been accusing each other of having cooties for years.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Cootie

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