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Jeffrywith1e
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Date Joined Oct 2001
Total Posts : 34

Posted 8/28/2003 2:58 PM (GMT -6)

what was the game you played as a kid?

duck duck...

night
there was a young lady named Bright
whose speed was much faster than light
she departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous

PotOnWheel
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 9890

Posted 8/28/2003 3:42 PM (GMT -6)

I played "grey duck." (born '57) "Goose" seems to have happened later?

Another game. We played "Trench" and "Bombardment." My kids play "bomb ball." "Elimination" is the less catastrophic/war-like name.

Think about it: Both "Trench" and "Bombardment" must have roots in WWI trench warfare (where they wore gas masks, and had no-man's-lands, and mass killing).

So, whats the ORIGIN of "Duck, duck, "grey duck?"

(PS - "Ring around the rosery, achew, achew, all fall down" was about the Black Plague!)

Jeffrywith1e
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Date Joined Oct 2001
Total Posts : 34

Posted 8/29/2003 2:44 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by PotOnWheel

(PS - "Ring around the rosery, achew, achew, all fall down" was about the Black Plague!)

I learned that completely differently:

ring around the rosey
pocket full of posey
ashes ashes
we all fall down

night
there was a young lady named Bright
whose speed was much faster than light
she departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous

Tigress
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Date Joined Feb 2003
Total Posts : 1252

Posted 8/29/2003 7:47 AM (GMT -6)

I thought "Duck duck grayduck" was a Minnesota thing, while everywhere else in the U.S. people say "Duck duck goose." I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and we always said "goose." But when I got up here to MN I thought everybody was nuts. Tongue

Tigress

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