[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.
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.
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.
[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
Tell tale tip
Your Mum can't knit
Your Dad can't walk with a walking stick
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Georgie Best
Superstar
Wears frilly knickers and a Playtex bra
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Ip dip thr'penny bit
You are not it
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One potato, two potato, three potato more
Bad one mouldy
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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.
Chinny or stroiking chin saying 'jackanory' or 'jimmy hill'
'Bagzy' or 'dibs'
'Big chin whalla whalla' or Jimmy Hill when someone was lying :0)
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)
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!
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".
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?
that the lady in the city,
got a hitty on the titty,
by a hard boiled egg!
Lemonade
Round the corner
Chocolate's made.
Flixes
From the tough streets of Bexley-on-the-Heath
Vaynites
Bagsy
Chinny Reckon (although Jimmy Hill occasionally made an appearance)
from the wilds of Lewisham
Dartford.
Iceland