I don't like THIS OLD MAN. All that stuff about playing knick-knack on my thumb and all that knick-knack paddywhack stuff . . . gives me the creeps.
Well, it did inspire my favourite Far Side cartoon. An old lady shouts up the hill behind her house "Knick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone!" Then in the next frame, her husband comes tumbling down to her.