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aadroma

[Memories] The Polio Game

Jul 23, 2010 12:52

I think every child who had siblings (or friends who were like siblings), at one point, invented stupid illogical games to pass the time. With my brother and sister, we invented a game we played all the time called "The Polio Game ( Read more... )

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muckefuck July 23 2010, 18:04:43 UTC

OMG! We used to play "Ghosts in the Graveyard", too! (No chanting involved in our version, however.)

We also invented a live-action version of Pac Man, even though I don't ever really remember playing Pac Man as a kid.

robearal July 23 2010, 18:23:53 UTC

I played a variant of "Ghosts in the Graveyard." Our version was a "call and response" variant. One had to call out "Ghost in a Graveyard" when the person who was "It" called out "1-2-3" I can't remember if the non-Its had a home base they were allowed to touch that allowed them to beat "It" in this game.

progbear July 23 2010, 18:25:33 UTC

My sister and I had a “bored and trapped in the house on a rainy day” game called “Nice Ladies and Stuff.” In it, we started from either end of the hallway and had to walk past each other in a certain style, for example like “nice ladies” (i.e.: waving and saying “Hi!”). It became a free-for-all once we passed each other, with each of us sprinting to slam our hands on the far wall. The person going towards the living room had the advantage as they could just skid on sock-feet on the linoleum floor for the last few feet.

It was all over once we discovered that furniture polish sprayed on the floor increased its slickness. More to the point, it was all over once our mother discovered we were using furniture polish to slick up the living room floor! O dear, no more “Nice Ladies and Stuff”!

greatbearmd July 23 2010, 18:39:10 UTC

*chases after Regev and grabs him*

YOU'VE GOT THE BEAR LOAD!!!!11

*runs away, squeeing*

Aids Tag! maxauburn July 23 2010, 19:18:52 UTC

The kids in this neighborhood used to play a game called "Aids Tag."

This was back in the late 80's.

One kid is it.

He had Aids, and if he touches another kid who was running away from him, then that kid had Aids, and any kid he touched would get Aids, too.

I always thought this was the dumbest, most ignorant game that I ever heard of for kids to play.

I was playing an Aids game back then, too.

It was called " Go to the funerals and memorial services for my good friends who'd died from Aids."

That is the reality of Aids, as we on LJ already know.

Stupid kids.