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So one of the guys I work with goes walking by me this morning, taps me on the shoulder and says, "You're it!" And then goes back to his desk. I told him that it wasn't fair because no one told me where homebase was (you know, the safehaven). That then led us down the path of games you use to play in the schoolyard in gradeschool. Can you think of any others?

Popular games included:

Jailbreak
Freeze Tag
TV Tag
Four Square Ball
Handball (or Wallball)

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Tetherball and soccer were big at my gradeschool

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tackle tag.
ice-ball.
smear the queer.
purple herman brigade....

those were the days....smile.gif

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jump rope
hopscotch
red rover
kick ball
dodge ball


i think all these games are outlawed on the gradschool playgrounds now...
damn communists! ashamed.gif

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Purple Herman Brigade? confused.gif

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um.....nipple twister. no.gif

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Smear the Queer? confused.gif

Not quite politically correct this day and age, whatever it is!

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

tackle tag.
ice-ball.
smear the queer.
purple herman brigade....

those were the days....smile.gif


Oh JD. no.gif



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lol it was a catholic grade school too....and by 8th grade I was lead altar boy. laughing.gif

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Hide and seek

Any-Over

King's Base


Any-Over: Two teams, one on each side of the school (small country school house). One team would throw a ball over the school. If you didn't catch it, you had to throw it back. If you caught it, you would run around the school and the person with the ball could tag members of the other team. If you got tagged, you were then on their team. As you ran around with the ball, you'd try to hide the ball until you were close enough to tag someone with it. Once there was no one left for the other team the game was over and time to start over.


King's Base: Every person had a base (an old tire). If you were on your base, you were safe. If you could get from your base and circle around another base three times without getting tagged, you captured their base. While circling another's base, they could tag you and you were then on their base and team.



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We couldn't play "smear the queer" at school, but we played it a lot when we were where we had a bunch of guys together. That was a rough game.





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still don't understand the "Smear the Queer" game that I've never heard of.

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Kids now a day are too busy w/ their remote controller in their hands, and gaining weight... instead of playing these games.

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Red Light, Green Light.
Tiger Pile(s)
Flag Football (which I am once again in a league playing!)
Chasing girls around. We had a Boy's side and Girl's side of our playground. Public school. I think that it made it more interesting than it really was just because it was forbidden.
Strike Out. Chalk strike zone on the wall of the school.smile

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I bet the majority of our summer vacations from 4th to 8th grade, a bunch of us were just obsessed with strike out. Even our school gym teacher, who was also the groundskeeper would come out and play a few rounds. A few gym classes he would set up a softball game for the rest, and get me and my 2 other buddies and we'd all head over to the strike out box...

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

um.....nipple twister. no.gif





AH! Around here that was called "purple nurple" rofl.gif

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ah yes, the nurple....biggrin.gif

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I don't know if JD's "smear the queer" was the same or not, but basically all it was was a bunch of guys with a football. If you had the ball, you were the queer and everyone else tried to tackle you. If (when) you got tackled (smeared) you'd throw the ball up and someone else would grab it and start running. It was just a game to see how long you could run and avoid getting smeared.



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I think I went to the same school as DS. She mentioned most of them I could think of.

I don't think Mother May I has been mentioned yet.

We also had a version of Hide & Seek and Tag that was only played at night. Ghosts in the Graveyard maybe?

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We played a lot of tag, wall ball, softball, and hide and seek.  We also played Horse....basketball game, don't remember the exact rules but I think you had to shoot from where the other person missed, first one to 21 wins. 

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WebGuy wrote:


I don't know if JD's "smear the queer" was the same or not, but basically all it was was a bunch of guys with a football. If you had the ball, you were the queer and everyone else tried to tackle you. If (when) you got tackled (smeared) you'd throw the ball up and someone else would grab it and start running. It was just a game to see how long you could run and avoid getting smeared.





yea that was pretty much it here too.smile.gif

there was a derrivative of it too where you'd just jump on the whimpy mama boys.smile.gif

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I seem to remember "Beat on Riggs" being a popular game with a lot of the kids crying.gif

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...and me in the studio carrying on the grand tradition of that game....biggrin.gif

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sniff.gif I know. Even as an adult I can't get no respect. sniff.gif

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

lol it was a catholic grade school too....and by 8th grade I was lead altar boy. laughing.gif


Oh JD. no.gif

I don't remember any of the guys I went to school with being that bad.



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WAIT! JAY DEE WAS AN ALTER BOY!!!! shocked.gif HOW'D I MISS THAT!!!!!

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Aw, now that's not true.  I respect you.  I just have a very warped way of showing respect, that's all.  biggrin

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lol I was one of the smaller kids, more often then not I was on the receiving end, or, if on the giving end, had to wait until one of the bigger kids knocked the "it" kid down....biggrin.gif

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Since all the kids in my neighborhood were boys, I had to learn to be tough otherwise I would've been picked on all the time.  hmm

But when we got to be teenagers, I had my pick of the boys while the other girls in school wondered how I knew all those boys.  biggrin

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

WAIT! JAY DEE WAS AN ALTER BOY!!!! shocked.gif HOW'D I MISS THAT!!!!!





I sure was, riggs. you didn't know that?confused.gif I guess it wouldn't have ever been bought up between us.
I had served the most masses by 8th grade. If you go to the Sacristry if Mother of Good Counsel, you'll find my name on the plack of lead altar boys for 1984.smile.gif

See, even tho I'm a Buddhist, I've got my gold castle in heaven waiting for me. aww.gif
I got my bases covered!! :woot:

aw who am I kidding. I will sit at the right hand of Satan....cry.giffurious.gifdevil.gif

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