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Rock, Paper, Scissors - A question

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  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,194
    [cite]Posted By: Ashers[/cite]It was bagsy for me too. What about 'chin rub' when you didn't believe someone? Live down on the coast now and nobody of my age (44) seems to have heard of it.

    BTW was ick ack ock in my house too, lived in Croydon but the name came from the Plumstead side of the family.
    'Chinny reckon'
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Got this while researching:

    In Peter and Iona Opie's great book Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, published in 1959, they found a huge variety of "truce terms" in use in British schools. Cross keys, crosses, creases, cruces, truces, bruises, cree, creams, crogs, croggie, scribs, scrams, screams, scrases, screws, scruces, skinch, scrogs, exes, kings, keys, vains, fains, fainites, fanlights, fainsies, snakes, keppies, barley, bars, barsey, barley-up, barley-bees, ballow, barrels were all in use somewhere in Britain. Of these, "barley" and its variants probably derive from "parley", and the "fains/fainites" group from the mediaeval English phrase "fain I" , meaning "I decline", from old French "se feindre" meaning "to make excuses, hang back, back away from a fight". The Opies noted that these truce words almost always went with a hand gesture, usually crossed fingers, so it's possible (though the Opies didn't commit themselves to this) that "crosses/cross keys/cruces" group refer to the gesture.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    As for first go it is 'bagsy'....or on my estate it was also stretched to 'baggiarda'.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,212
    Bagsy for me.

    Chinny or stroiking chin saying 'jackanory' or 'jimmy hill'
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    We did Jimmy Hill. The was also a time when we'd do the same chin rub but say Itchy Chin.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Tick, tack, toe?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    As a kid there always used to be the girls playing an endless game of bouncing two tennis balls off a wall in some kind of complicated way while singing a song or rhyme.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Presumably everyone here played "Hee"
  • Imnot Athletic
    Imnot Athletic Posts: 1,017
    Scissors, paper, stone in Bexleyheath

    'Bagzy' or 'dibs'

    'Big chin whalla whalla' or Jimmy Hill when someone was lying :0)
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Bagsy for me.

    Chinny or stroiking chin saying 'jackanory' or 'jimmy hill'[/quote]

    80s Charlton
    'Moose' = A non good looking girl
    'Beard' = Liar
    'Whitney' = Very good
    'Bugsy' = Claimed
    Torture Run outs
    40/40 add
    40/40 I see you
    Paper Scissors Stone

    One that pisses me off with my kids e.g

    That kid is 'bear' fast (as in very fast)
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  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    edited February 2011
    1970's Eltham -

    Tell tale tip
    Your Mum can't knit
    Your Dad can't walk with a walking stick
    *****************************************************
    Georgie Best
    Superstar
    Wears frilly knickers and a Playtex bra
    ****************************************************

    Ip dip thr'penny bit
    You are not it
    ****************************************************

    One potato, two potato, three potato more
    Bad one mouldy


    We were well 'ard!
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    And fans from other teams call us trainspotters - what are they on about?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,838
    Ig Ag Og in Catford - but my sister taught me that so probably just got it wrong from the one above!

    Also, "bagsy" and "Jimmy Hill/Itchy chin".

    And there was a time in Catford when "and your mum" appeared in just about every sentence.

    "I'm going to the shops .... and your mum"
    "Pass me the ball .... and your mum"
    "That stinks .... and your mum".
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181
    edited February 2011
    Well I was brought up in Pratts Bottom (or was it Pratt's Bottom) but went to school at Bromley Common

    Ick Ack Ock although also known as rock paper scissors.

    I now play it with my kids and we have added categories

    rock paper scissors guinea pig dynamite (guinea pig beats dynamite by nibbling the fuse) - I know I am barking mad.

    Vainites or vainies with fingers crossed

    My parents from Farnborough it was fainits

    Ip dip sky blue
    who's it not you

    and when no adults were listening

    ip dip dog shit
    you are not it

    One potato, two potato, three potato four
    five potato, six potato, seven potato more
    Bad spud

    Bagzy

    Anyone play the hide and seek game 40/40?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Isn't it a pity,
    that the lady in the city,
    got a hitty on the titty,
    by a hard boiled egg!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Milk Milk
    Lemonade
    Round the corner
    Chocolate's made.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,822
    Paper scissors stone

    Flixes

    From the tough streets of Bexley-on-the-Heath
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    edited February 2011
    We had a nuclear explosion which beat rock paper and scissors, and then fallout shelter which beat nuclear explosion but lost to the other three.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,272
    Rock Scissors Paper
    Vaynites
    Bagsy
    Chinny Reckon (although Jimmy Hill occasionally made an appearance)
    from the wilds of Lewisham
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    Paper scissors stone

    Dartford.
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  • Jarman
    Jarman Posts: 1,851
    Kivi Paperi Sakset

    Iceland

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