Cultural References
The phrase or its variant appears in the following songs: "Little Tiger" by Jason Collett, "Stranger Than Fiction" by Bad Religion, "Papercut Skin" by The Matches, "At the Helm" by Hieroglyphics, "Love the Hardest Way" by HIM, "Ollie Ollie" by Flatfoot 56, "Drive" by R.E.M., "Play with Me" by Extreme, "Spore" by Ramona Falls, "Eagle Scout" by Dirt Bike Annie, "Saint Ex" by Widespread Panic, "It's Ok, But Just This Once" by Gym Class Heroes, "Olly Olly Oxen Free" by Amanda Palmer, "Sho' Improve" by Giant Panda, "Ollie" by The Brobecks, "Ally, Ally, Oxen Free" by Rod McKuen, "Hide and Seek" by Schematic and "Olley Oxen Free" by Terry Scott Taylor.
In the game "Bugs Bunny Lost in Time" for the PlayStation, the word is one of the unlockeable magic tricks needed to reach hidden areas. By saying it, he is pushed up as if there was a spring below him. It would only work above a shining spring symbol.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)