Stuff When You Were A Kid

Steve · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: Stuff When You Were A Kid

So I'm trying to build a reference base about things you do/did as a kid. I'm looking for games played like hide and seek, hopscotch, tag, etc. Mocking names like copy cat, tattletale, scaredy cat, etc.

There's a couple of more things I'll throw in the mix later but I think this is a good start.

I imagine it being fun just to talk about
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Steve · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

to kick it off.

I was stuck at day care most of my childhood but the advantage was there were a lot of other kids stuck there too. We use to play a lot of pretend games that included others like hide and seek or racing.

There were black rubber mats around the jungle gym and monkey bars and we would pretend it was water and gym and bars were island havens. Sometimes people would disappear and we would have to form search parties to find and rescue them.

I also use to spin myself around and around til i fell down and stumbled and fell again trying to get back up.
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yino · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

My childhood, was spent in the end of the world, even more south from where I am currently, there were no movies, tv arrived with days of delay, so imagination came in pretty handy,

Childhood, seems to be similar for all, everyone played hide and seek, tag and races.

We also used to pretend a lot, we even pretended to be a family (much resemblance to sims), we used to pretend a lot with small cars (those that are really small, matchbox, hotwheels and stuff) we could build a whole city with anything we could find, computers didn't have color, so qbasic nibbles was the best game ever (LOL). In summer water guns offered and balloons gave us lots of fun.
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Steve · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject:

i was really looking forward to your response too Yino. happy you were the first to respond.

I figures they'd be similar. Hoping that someone will bring up some gem that we've forgotten or never heard about.

I remember sim'ish family games too
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Mike · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject:

Hey, I have the perfect thing for this. It'll make every kid go "ZOMG!"

PSYCH!
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Dave · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

GAMES
Tug o' War
Hand Ball
Tetherball
Kick Ball

I used to build obstacle courses outta boxes, old tires, sand pits, etc., and me and the other kids would try to get through them as quickly as possible.

TOYS
Toy Cars
Building cities with legos
Atari and Nintendo
Uno
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yino · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

Mike explain please
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Mike · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

Dodgeball and Socco were the shit.

Make and throw paper air planes.
Ride bikes
Sit down on a skateboard and go balls first down a hill.
Throw fruit at walls to make 'em go BOOM.

Come on steve... you know you remember our time as kids (or like 20+ year olds) jumping off the swings at the Rose Bowl.

Lastly... for the ladies.

Mash

Stupid fucking game.
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trebuchet · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject:

G.I. Joes

Making forts out of cardboard boxes

We did this thing on the playground called The 5th Grade Raid: a bunch of us boys would wait 'til a bunch o' the girls were settling into some kind of pretend game and then we'd crash it. And, sure enough, they'd chase us around the playground until it evolved into tag or something. Everyone had a good time except for the Queen Bee of the bunch because she was a control freak.

Lots and lots of T.V.
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Dave · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

For some reason, back in my old grade school, the girls got it into their heads that it'd be fun to "hit" the boys. Nothing serious, but a punch that would be felt. That morphed into the boys keeping tabs as to either A) how many of them girls they could avoid, or B) how many hits they've taken and just shrugged it off.

Was fun.
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Steve · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

tug o' war is great. forgot about that
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Steve · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

anyone remember like taunts/nicknames? like tattle-tale, snitch, copy cat, etc? list anything, even if you think i've heard it before or would seem uninteresting.
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Dave · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

NamesTattle-tail (always thought it was tail, not tale)
Snitch
Copy Cat
Wet Blanket
Stick in the Mud
Booger
Sissy
Wuss
Dork
Nerd
Pansy
Crybaby

Taunts
Liar liar, pants on fire, your nose is bigger than a telephone wire!
Neener neener neener!
You got the cooties!
Sucker!
<insult> say what?
<boy> and <girl> sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
<boy> loves <girl>, <boy> loves <girl>!
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Steve · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

Wet Blanket
Stick in the Mud

what do these mean?
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Dave · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: