Pinch your tongue and say "I was born on a pirate ship".

There was the winter’s day my cousin challenged me to lick the flagpole.

Throwing a snowball at the principal…he burned one right back at me right in the kisser! He was a cool guy!!

@noelleptc Nope. As I recall he was smart enough to wait for the warm water? Or have I got my stories mixed up?

I had a brand spanking new pair of trousers on one day & the teacher said that they were very smart. She asked me when I got them & I proudly said that my mum bought me them tomorrow!! Bless, I was only 17…..5yrs old at the time.

It wasn’t done on the playground, but behind the corner of the building during recess. It was breathing in and out deeply and really fast and then holding their breath while someone grabbed them around the waist from behind and picking them up. It usually made the person pass out. What in the world were we thinking?

Here’s one:

boy:Look down your shirt and spell ATTIC.
girl: A T T I C
boy: snicker

We used to ask other kids to put their pinkie in their mouth and bite down on the middle of the nail as hard as they are comfortable with for a minute or so. Then quickly interlock pinkies and pull.

@noelleptc There’s also the one where you have the kid hold his hand on his face and you try to pull his middle finger away from his face and he tries as hard as he can to keep it on his face. Then you let go of the finger.

@noelleptc LMAO.

@noelleptc – The quarter thing was what I was just going to say! That was always a good one :)

Josh and Sarah sittin’ in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love,
Then comes marriage,
Then comes baby in a golden carriage!

@Adirondackwannabe I do a variation of that, where I say “Did you know that if your hand is bigger than your face then you’re really smart?” and I slam their hand against their face as they try it out.

@erichw1504 Smacking the hand into the face is a little mean. With the finger it’s just one finger and the person does it to themself. Why not just punch them in the face, it’s easier.

Cup your fingers on top of a kid’s head and say “this is a brain detecting spider. Know what it’s doing? Starving to death.”

“Did you know that the first sign of madness is a hair growing out of the middle of the palm of your hand?”
<Suspects a trick but opens palm, holds hand to face and stares >
“And the second sign is looking for a hair in the palm of your hand.”

Pinch your tongue and say “I’m an apple.” I didn’t really get it the first time I was told to do it. There was also the “cootie shot”, and a lot of the things that people have already mentioned. I had forgotten how weird little kids are.

Noel Noel boe boe-ell banana fanna foe foe-ell me my moe moe-ell… Noel!
My older sister once tricked me into singing this one with the word “duck”... think about it.

We did a bunch of those playground rhymes where you and a partner would clap, smack and bang your hands together while chanting something silly like:

Miss Susie had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Susie went to Heaven
The steamboat went to

Hell-o operator
Give me number nine
And if you don’t connect me
I’ll kick you from

Behind the ‘frigerator
There lay a piece of glass
Miss Susie sat upon it
And poked her little

Ass-k me no more questions
I’ll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their flies!

@WillWorkForChocolate We used to do those clapping rhymes for hours!
Oh, playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree

Slide down my rainbarrel
Into my cellar door
And we’ll be jolly friends
Forever more – more – mo mo mo more!

The only one I really remember was coating the cap of a highlighter with the ink from the highlighter and then dropping it on the floor and asking someone to pick it up.

And of course, they can’t see it’s covered in ink.

I remember some of them:

What comes after 29?
30.
Your face is dirty!

What comes after 79?
80.
You’re an old lady!

When I ask you a question, answer with, “Rubber buns and liquor”.

What did you have for breakfast?
Rubber buns and liquor.
What would you do if you found Marilyn Monroe in your bathtub?
Rubber buns and liquor. ;-o

Say, “Three smart boys all felt smart” 5 times as fast as you can.
That used to trip me up most of the time when I was younger, but for some reason it doesn’t now, and it’s not like I’ve been practicing it for the last 40 years.

@Blueroses – We had a variation of that one:

JJ my boyfriend
Come out and play with me
And bring your kisses three
Climb up my apple tree (I guess we couldn’t find a good replacement!)
Slide down my bra strap
Into my booby trap
And we’ll be jolly friends… etc.
Whaddaya want, we were eight!

We used to say “Look up, look down, you owe me half a crown” Half a crown was 2 shillings and 6 pence, or an eighth of a pound, that is 12.5 pence. It was a large silver coin and was worth a considerable amount of money in those days.

Oh here’s a lame one..

Look under there!

Under where?

* snicker *

@noelleptc—People did that all the time when I was a kid. What the heck was that about? I never got it. Nobody did it to me.. but I’d see guys do it to each other.

This question has gotten my memories going. Like when I first saw the thread, I remembered that we’d sing “I was born on a pirate ship” for some reason.

This will date me but I remember people pulling off those weird little tags on the back of oxford shirts and calling out F-G TAG! Some kid in my class had the whole back of his shirt ripped off by accident once. I always made sure to cut mine off when they were new, so nobody would tag me.

Say the word lettuce then spell the word cup.

@WillWorkForChocolate
Isn’t there more to that? I’m trying to recall old memories…
Flies are in the meadow bees are in the ___
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are _______
etc…

If there is more to it, I don’t remember it.

@dxs
Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
Darker than the ocean, darker than the sea
Darker than the underwear my mommy puts on me
See? (said pretending to lift skirt)

Thanks for the memory jog :)

@Blueroses YES but I don’t remember the lifting-up-of-the skirt part…maybe because I’m a guy

Did you ever give a Chinese burn?

@flutherother Is that when you turn the arm/wrist area in two different directions? If so, I called it an Indian Burn…Somewhere the Asian countries must’ve gotten mixed up somehow.

Yes that’s it. It was done on the arm, twist in two different directions, reverse and reverse again. We always called it a Chinese burn in Scotland.