Britpicking questions

[wook77]

Okaly dokaly - I have a few britpicking questions for my flist... (yes, they're dumb and yes they're random but they're all important to a plot...)

1.) What do you all call mudpies? Do you make mudpies (I assume you do as it seems a universal childish thing to do)? I know here in the US, there's a ton of names for it that are fairly regional so I'm looking for London-ish.

2.) What's a sandbox called? Were there sandboxes in public playgrounds say around late 1960s/early 1970s? What sort of childhood games would be played back then? Did you have things like 'Red Rover'?

3.) Veins - do you have slang for them?

Comments

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[flamewarrior.livejournal.com]

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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[wook77.livejournal.com]

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.