reminds me of those vials of rocks("Opals") they sold late at night on TV.
Chestnuts roasted by hjgdhfgd @ 08/01/2003 3:25 PM
Speaking of banned games in school, I got busted for pogs, pencil break, and the ultimate game, Slap Attack. Also known as Hot Hands, and maybe some other things. Me and my buddies still play to this day, even though we are now college students. I love that game. Me and my buddies would play until our hands were swollen and red. Anyone else love this game as much as I do?
Chestnuts roasted by Bansheex @ 08/01/2003 6:42 PM
Yup but we just called it slaps and it was considered more of a junior type of bloody knuckles. Almost exactly like slaps except with clenched fists and yes sometimes you do bleed, at least you weren’t one of those kids that masteurbated in the bathroom.
Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/01/2003 7:10 PM
My friends and I originated a game in junior high called "Chop to the Neck". It was very simple…you had to trick someone into looking upward, and when they did, you gave them a karate chop to the throat.
Yeah, we were kind of dicks back then.
You remember the pencils that had the row of little plastic nubs with a lead stuck on the end inside of them? You’d write til you wore down the lead, then remove the nub and shove into the back of the pencil, forcing the next one upwards. Haven’t seen those things in ages, but I always thought they were pretty cool (though not very practical).
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 08/01/2003 7:18 PM
We called it Slap Hands, I think. What’s Pencil Break?
Once I got busted for playing Rock, Paper, Scissors while waiting to take the yearly hearing test. We weren’t even hitting each other or pinching or anything, just 3-2-1-shoot, but the crazy ear testing hag dragged us to the principal’s office for playing the deadly game of "Roshambo" as she called it. http://www.gameskidsplay.net/ is a pretty cool site that has the official playground rules to tons of games. If you’re the kind of geek who’s into that kind of thing.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/01/2003 7:23 PM
Roshambo? Sounds like an Akira Kurosawa film.
Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/01/2003 7:48 PM
Isn’t Roshambo when you kick each other in the nuts till one of you gives up? I loved a good game of bloody knuckles. I bet Photog sucked at bloody knuckles. Just so I could bring up Photog.
Chestnuts roasted by Bansheex @ 08/01/2003 8:07 PM
Roshambo is Japanese for rocks-paper-scissors.
Chestnuts roasted by Menchi @ 08/01/2003 10:06 PM
Man, playing slaps or bloody knuckles against Fisto would have sucked, wouldn’t it?
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 08/01/2003 11:34 PM
In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?
Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.
Greg.
Chestnuts roasted by GTS-4orced @ 08/02/2003 9:10 AM
I’m looking forward to what Teddy will say. How is he gonna turn this into an issue, this will be his greatest challenge yet. >>
How did I get dragged into this? I don’t turn things into "issues." In fact, I pretty much dig everything Matt does and I don’t give him grief about anything…the only thing I make "issues" about is when people run the same shit into the ground blog entry after blog entry about the same shit (i.e. Mac and Me, the fucking Advent Calendar, etc.)…personally I liked the Invasion list…like all the other lists before them…
Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 08/09/2003 5:29 PM
"In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?
Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.
Greg."
That is the fucking best thing I have ever heard of in my entire life (and, remember, that’s saying a lot, beacuse I still hum the theme song to Superhuman Samurai Cybersquad).
All we had up in Ohio where I grew up was thumb wrestling. But occasionally, for some odd reason, if you were losing, you could call out "Chinese Helpers!" and immediately use your pointer finger to pin the other guy’s thumb before he summoned his own "Chinese Helper".
My god, does that last paragraph sound absurd. I feel as if I need to take a shower just to wash the evil off.
ha we play bloody knuckles and slaps in school but we call it tennis…lol…its awsome
Chestnuts roasted by kk @ 12/19/2003 5:05 PM
"In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?
Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.
Greg."
We still played barcode when i was in school- which wasn’t that long ago- that game is pure evil for a tiny 5’3 girl ….
and i thought a rock pencil was like one of those pet rocks with the googly eyes stuck onto the end of a pencil- i’m happy to say that i was more than impressed with what the actual rock pencil in question looked like.
I got my rock pencil when I was 6 from a natural history museum in Arizona.
Chestnuts roasted by Amy @ 05/10/2007 2:36 PM
i HAVE one of those rock pencils somewhere in my house, and have an intense urge to go find it! i got it when i was like 6 at the monterey bay aquarium in cali. oh how i love aquariums and rock pencils!
Chestnuts roasted by the one and only Jenny @ 05/21/2007 12:27 AM
Just to let you know, if you are ever in Toronto, Ontario…the Toronto Science Center still sells rock pencils. I bought one for my son last year for the grand sum of $2.99 (plus tax)
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reminds me of those vials of rocks("Opals") they sold late at night on TV.