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  • Drip drop, hippity hop, higglety pigglety, dickory dock, somebody needs to go to the barbershop.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Asked to say something during a Broadway audition with Alfred Lunt, a young Marlon Brando recites "Hickory . . . dickory . . . dock" and walks away.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • Remember that, in the smallest nutshell into which we can oversimplify it, Lines 1, 2 and 5 of the limerick must each contain the meter "o-hickory-dickory-dock" and must rhyme with one another; and that Lines 3 and 4 must contain "o-dickory-dock" and rhyme with each other.

    Week 887: A new contest: We give you a line, you write the rest of the limerick The Empress 2010

  • Asked to say something during a Broadway audition with Alfred Lunt, a young Marlon Brando recites "Hickory . . . dickory . . . dock" and walks away.

    Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied Edward Kosner 2011

  • Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock… wait, what?

    Regretsy – Wing Flapper 2010

  • Hickory dickory dock, teh maus ran up teh . . . um, no, I guess we bedder nawt go ther!

    Intervention Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • In it, Kerrey screws up a limerick: "Hick dickory dock, a woman fellated my penis ...:" thosethingswesay. blogspot.com

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • She has them in every pose imaginable from the 3 blind mice to hickory dickory dock.

    Beware The Oddball Gun 2007

  • For example, say, “Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the _______” or “Little Jack Horner sat in a ________” or “Jack, be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the _____________.”

    The Toddler's Busy Book Trish Kuffner 2008

  • Yet he grew increasingly impatient with the Clock People's notions, and toward the end of his Sierra stay his hickory dickory mouse of mockery ran frequently up their clock.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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