But they got braver and braver and they went up finally, after a long time, and they got a little more braver and braver and more curious and more curious about the well cause Chang had told hi brother about the well and what had happened inside it. Um, so, the boys were very scared of that incident, so many, many months pass before they go up on the hill again. ![]() Underneath the tree.” So Tiki Tiki Timbo No Saw Rembo Pali Pali Gucci Rick Ricky Rimbo runs over to the man with the ladder and says, “Ohh my brother has fallen into the well, Chang has fallen into the well! Please come help me with the ladder!!” And the guy says, “Oh I’m comin’ right straight away!” So they get him out, they fish him out of the well and, uh, the old man, like turns him up on his knee and pumps all the water out of him and Chang is kinda choking and gasping for a moment, but he comes back to life, you know, he’s good as new within 20 minutes. So the boy hollers, “Chang fell into the well!!” And his mother goes, “Ohhh, go get the old man with the ladder then. And the mother said, “Oh what? What are you saying? Speak up, the water’s so loud down here I can’t hear. ![]() And Tiki Tiki Timbo No Saw Rembo Pali Pali Gucci Rick Ricky Rimbo ran all the way down the hill with his little legs and told his mother that Chang had fallen into the well. ![]() So they’d play around up there and, um, one time, Chang, got a little too adventurous, and he was lookin’ in the well and he was so small and he, uh, lost his balance, and he tumbled in… and, it was awful. And there was a well by the river and um, sometimes their mother would let them go up on the hill and let them play, play near the well cause it was a nice view. And she idolized her oldest son and thought he was wonderful and, um, but anyway, the boys loved each other and they would play together and everyday the mother would go down to the river and do her washing and the boys would go and they’d play around her. So and then, which means like “One that I adore” or “Most wonderful child in the world” and then she had a second son and she named him Chang, which means like “Second” or “Another” or something– you know, it was a very short name. The first one, her firstborn she named Tiki Tiki Timbo No Saw Rembo Pali Pali Gucci Rick Ricky Rimbo. It would be like, “One that I worship” And so it would be a big long name like, uh, and then, uh, so this woman had two sons. Cause of that they gave them huge long regal names that worshipped them. So back then, way, way back in time, back in Chinese time, um, sons were idolized and first borns were the most treasured member of the family. Tiki Tiki Timbo No Saw Rembo Pali Pali Gucci Rick Ricky Rimbo. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.“So this is a Chinese one. ![]() Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Publisher's Synopsis: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) on September 15, 1989 She looked me in the eye and said, “It’s racist.” Continue reading. I had never heard those words before, so I asked her, “What does that mean?” The quiet seriousness of her response struck me. A Chinese-American friend was talking about the way other kids chanted “Tikki Tikki Tembo” around her. My first encounter with Tikki Tikki Tembo occurred around middle school.
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