In Astoria, we called it…

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In Astoria, we called it Ace,King,Queen. Asses. up had to be called in the beginning. We also had rules about who chased the ball if it went into the street. Last player to touch the wall had to get the ball. Chips were often called in case the ball went down the sewer. Spaldeens were the preferred ball but sometimes we used a Pennsy Pinky. We also had a rule that if the ball hit a car after only one bounce you could hit “off the car” legally. We the “Ace” got “out” he went to the end of the line, as did anyone else who faltered. I don’t recall if only the Ace scored points but I think so. A good, low “slice” would generally take out a player. We generally used the sidewalk boxes for each players area. Sometimes we would mark it off with chalk but that usually only happened if the landlord with the sidewalk boxes chased us away!

Several years ago, I was…

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Several years ago, I was trying to explain the game of skully (skullies) to my wife, when I came upon this site. I told my brother and sisters about it, and haven’t been back here since. Recently, we were talking about other games we played in the city (Bronx) and we all remembered the game SLUGS. We never knew it as any other name, no one on the block called it Chinese Handball, Ace-King-Queen, etc. It was always known by us, and everyone around the block, as SLUGS. We lived and played this game around 181 St., on Valentine Ave, and over at P.S. 9/115, which isn’t even called that anymore (damn, imagine that, they changed our school names). Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, it’s been 30 years since I lived and played in the Bronx. Can’t tell you how much I miss playing stickball, and off-the-point (stoop-ball), off-the-wall and skullies (we use to take the school chairs into the hallway or stairs where they had those big iron grids covering the radiators, the grids just the right size to pop the metal chair slide off the bottom of the chairs – which we all know kicked ass over the bottle cap tops, or the bottle rings tops). And then there was kick-the-can, Ringoleavio, and on a hot summer day, we open up those fire hydrants and use a can with the lid removed on both ends to direct volumes of arching water all over… damn, it was great. Anyway… just wanted to share, and will be forwarding this forum to my brother and sisters so that they too can be assured, we weren’t fooling ourselves… it was called SLUGS.

Peas Porridge …

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Peas Porridge Peas porridge hot, Peas porridge cold, Peas porridge in the pot, Nine days old; Some like it hot, Some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, Nine days old. I like it hot, I like it cold, I like it in the pot, Nine days old.

Miss Suzy had a steamboat,…

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Miss Suzy had a steamboat, Miss Suzy had a bell (ding ding), Miss Suzy went to heaven, The steamboat went to .. Hello operator, please give me number 9 and if you disconnect me, I’ll chop off your Behind the ‘frigerator, there was a piece of glass Miss Suzy sat upon it and broke her little Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies The boys are in the bathroom zipping up their Flies are in the meadow The bees are in the park Miss Suzy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, Dark, Dark, Dark! The dark is like a movie, a movies like a show, a show is like a TV and that is all I know. I know, I know my ma, I know, I know my pa, I know, I know my sister with the 40 acre bra!

My great uncle, Charlie Ballard,…

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My great uncle, Charlie Ballard, inspires me everday whether is be from sports to living my life to the fullest. This year is my first year as a coach and I have decided to dedicate it to my great uncle for inspiring me to play with my heart in any sport and dream I had in my life. He was such an inspiration….as all of you know…Thank you for giving him so many memories and great stories to share with us all!!!

Oh, my god!!!!!!! I cannot…

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Oh, my god!!!!!!! I cannot believe I have found this site. Skelly was my all time favorite street game growing up in the Bronx, though I first learned the game during the short time my family and I lived in the Edgemere projects in Far Rockaway in the mid-60’s. They called it skully there, skelly in Co-op City, but no matter the name, it was so much fun! I moved to Rochester, NY 8 years ago, and no one has ever heard of it, their loss. I am going out as soon as I can, get some sidewalk chalk, and draw a skelly board on my driveway come this spring…….Maybe I can teach these hicks up here what a good game looks like……… Thanks to the webmasters, and the creators of this website, you have brought back a flood of great memories for me, and I am going to pass this along……

This is the way i learned…

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This is the way i learned it Tweeleelee tweeleele Tweet baby tweet baby Your breath sting strong Rockin in the tree top all day long Huffin and a puffin and singing that song All the little girls on jay bird street Love to hear the robin goin tweet tweet tweet Rockin robin tweet tweelee Mothers in the kitchen cookin rice Daddy outside shootin that dice Brothers in jail raising up hell sisters on the corner sellin fruit •••• tail Rockin robin tweet tweelee went downstairs to get a stick of butter saw james brown sittin in the gutter took a piece of glass shoved it up his @$$ i never seen a mutha @$^* run so fast rockin robin Tweet tweelee