ID: 183
Date: 1990s - 2004
Title: I'm rubber
Gender: Male 
Classification: Retort 
Rhyme: 

I'm rubber, you're glue, 
What you say 
Bounces off me 
And sticks to you.

(Northland, 2000; Taumaranui, 2004)

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I'm the rubber, you're the glue,
Whatever you say, sticks to you.
You're the wee, and I'm the poo,
Whatever I say, sticks to you.

(Auckland, 1990s)

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I'm rubber, you're glue,
Anything you say bounces offa me
And sticks to you.

(NZ ex USA, 1998)

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I'm rubber,
You're glue,
Whatever you say,
Rebounds off me,
And sticks to you.

(Northland, 2000)

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Background Info: Bauer, 2003:112 discusses the retort related to  someone giving you something you don't want.

I'm a mirror,
You're the glue,
Everything you give to me,
Reflects off me and sticks to you.

(NZ, c. 2003)

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This rhyme is usually accompanied by a hand being placed in front of the face of the speaker and sometimes the words..

Talk to the hand,
The head ain't home.
Leave a message 
At the end of the tone.

(NZ, c. 2003)

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Keywords: retort, scatological 
Location: Various NZ 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 5