All the RomCom of Qi Xi

1.) Phew. I had a friend insisting that they were mudflops or mudpatties or something.

2.) OOHHH, awesome! *makes changes* Red Rover is where the "it" person goes "Red Rover Red Rover Send Sazzlette On Over" and then you have to make it to the other side of the playground without getting tagged by anyone that's been tagged by the person that's "it". Last person to not get tagged wins.

3.) awesome, will continue just saying veins then.

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sazzlette.livejournal.com

1. omg no, certainly not where I come from

2. Ooh okay our red rover was somewhere in between that and bulldog. Bulldog is where one person is it, and everyone else stands at one side of the playground (this can be anywhere between 5 and infinite number of kids xD)

On the word go, everyone has to run to the other side of the playground, and 'it' has to catch as many people as possible. They then also become it. Game continues until one kid is left.

They banned bulldog in most schools >.>

3. :D

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Yeah, they banned red rover at my school after everyone ganged up on one kid every phys ed class.

I'm so glad I can use mudpie, you have no idea. It's actually a fairly pivotal part of the plot. I'm insane, I guess.

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Red Rover was SUCH a completely different game where I grew up.

There were two teams on opposite sides of a yard/field/abandoned-lot-full-of-broken-things. The team would all either link arms, or grab each other's arms/hands. One team would yell out a Rover to come over from the opposite team and that person would have to try to break through the line of linked arms. If they broke it, they got to take a person from the opposite team back with them. If they didn't break it, they had to join the opposite team. The winners were usually whichever team had the most members when everyone had to go home for dinner.

This game usually resulted in bloody noses, air being forced out of lungs & the little wimpy kids being called out as the Rover repeatedly.

heheh...strange how I never thought of it before, but yeah, I guess every little group would have it's own rules. :D

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That's the version of Red Rover that we played here in Trinidad (Caribbean). :D

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Dude, we were NEVER allowed to play it like that. I think my school was wussy.

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Thanks for the tip! The flist came through :)

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1. What's a mudpie? Is it the same as a sandcastle?

2. We call them sandpits and yes, some public playgrounds had them then, but not that common. Early 70s childhood games played in Birmingham: British Bulldogs, skipping, french skipping, spinning round until your dizzy and falling over, tig (aka tag), tag-on-high, 'kick the can' (I can't remember what we called it then - that's a name a friend at uni used and it's overwritten my original memory), pretend games (e.g. pretending to be Dr. Who and assistant with a friend)

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1.) It's a patty (like a hamburger?) made of mud. Some kids eat it and some kids throw them at others and some kids do both.

2.) Oh very cool! OK, good thing to know about the common-ness of them.

What's french skipping?

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1. eurggh!!!

French skipping is a jumping game involving a long piece of elastic. Two kids (usually girls) loop the elastic round their ankles so it forms two parallel lines. The girl who's playing jumps in a pattern over/between the lines to the rhyme "England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside, puppy-dog tails". If she successfully completes the first go, the elastic goes up to mid-calf, then to knee, then to mid-thigh then to hip then to waist. If she fails at any point, the next girl gets to go, starting again at ankle. The next round starts with every girl at the point where she failed in the previous round.

Does that make sense?!

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You never sat in your garden and made mud pies, and then tried to serve them to your friends as cakes with your plastic tea set?

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Nope. I probably baked them real cakes, knowing me!

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You were a deprived child if you missed out on this and the wriggling worm filling. :0)

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2. What's the time, Mr. Wolf; Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?. Re. skipping we had a number of different skipping rhymes that would go with different patterns of running into and out of the skipping rope (which was most often a length of washing line), e.g: "Bumper car, bumper car, number 58, whizzing round the cooooooorner - slam on the brakes!"

3. Not that I know of.

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Very cool, I'll remember the skipping bits, especially. *debates*

Um, right, *backs away from the fic*

Cool, I'll call them veins then. I know that when I was a kid, we called them "tunnels", I have no idea why.

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For girls there were clapping games and french skipping with elastic that started around two people's ankles then gradually got higher. The 'skipper' had to do an increasingly complex set of jumps on or over the elastic as it got higher. It was my favourite game.

In the late 60's we used to act out cowboys and indians, Stingray or Thunderbirds.

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Ooh, yes, clapping games! I've forgotten all the rhymes for those. Also, slapping games - holding hands palms together and fingertips touching with your friend/opponent and trying to slap each other's hands and not get hit. If you lifted your hands out the way before your opponent moved when it was their turn to slap they got a free go at you!

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