First the Worst...

[meatmachines]

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[peastrab]

First the worst,
Second the best,
Third the one with the hairy chest,
Fourth the golden eagle,
Fifth the witch, down in the ditch, eating bread and treacle

:D

[meatmachines]

Okay, so I guess the golden eagle needs to repeat on line four, or just move down a notch. He seems to work as a step three too, though!

[skullyflower]

Um, excuse my ignorance, but what is this? I have never heard of this. Is it a children's rhyme sort of thing?

[meatmachines]

Hah, yes it is. Sorry, I should have explained more, I'll edit the post. It's a schoolyard chant thing recited by children who didn't come first after a race or contest, but there's lot of local variants with some appealingly odd and surreal positions and stations. From what I'm hearing, it's possibly just a british thing.

[_w_o_o_d_]

Haha, For some reason when I first saw the chart I assumed it was a thing about first sexual experiences, using some kinds of metaphors...

[meatmachines]

That's.. disturbingly fitting. Sort of. Maybe that's the secret meaning to the rhyme...

[_w_o_o_d_]

I'm still trying to figure out "the ghost eating toast halfway up a lamp-post", though. How do you even do that ? How many people does it take ?

[smartlikeatruck]

I'm in California- we had "first the worst, second the best, third the nerd" I don't remember after that, sadly. It was twenty years ago I was in grade school.

[lilacsigil]

Australia - "first the worst, second the best, third going to down to the town in the West".