Streetplay Discussions
I wa big on pretending when…
My cousin and I LOVED Cat’s…
My cousin and I LOVED Cat’s Cradle, we’d play it for hours… We would sometimes make up these crazy ways to take the string, and they’d actually work… Of course, if you take it in a weird way, then the next turn gets more complicated… We got to be pretty darn good at it. I was trying to figure out how to make a Cat’s Cradle string for a kid I know. I dunno what type of string to use, though. I tried rubber bands, but it doesn’t work too well… I saw the Koosh book about the game, I think someone I knew had it, but I could never get the moves from the book…
Hey, my sister learned a…
Hey, my sister learned a similar song made up of product names from a friend at camp (80s), and taught it to me. She couldn’t remember it, but I found it one a website. I also found the older one that someone mentioned on this board… I know the one she knew is a bit different, I’ll ask her what’s different and post it too. The tune is kinda similar to the “Miss suzy had a baby” one. Here are both versions from the site: As I was walking down the street one dark and gloomy day I came upon a billboard and much to my dismay The sign was torn and tattered from the storm the night before The wind and rain had done it’s work and this it what I saw Smoke Coca-Cola Cigarettes, chew Wrigley’s Spearmint beer Ken-L Ration Dog Food keeps your wife’s complexion clear Simonize your baby with a Hershey’s candy bar And Texaco’s the beauty cream that’s used by all the stars So take your next vacation in a brand new Fridgidaire Learn to play piano in your winter underwear Doctors say that babies should smoke until they are three And people over 65 should bathe in Lipton Tea Here is the older version: As I was walking down the street a billboard met my eye. The advertising that was there would make you laugh or cry. The wind and rain had almost washed that old billboard away. But the advertising painted there would have that billboard say: Have a smoke of Coca-Cola. Chew catsup cigarettes. Watch Lillian Russell wrestle with a box of Cascarets. Pork and beans will meet tonight in a finish fight. Hear Chauncey DePeeuw speak upon sapolio tonight. Bay rum is good for horses; it is the best in town. Castoria cures the measles, if you pay ten dollars down. Teeth extracted without pain, a nickel or a half a dime. Ingersolls are selling now, a little behind the times. Chew Wrigleys for that headache. Eat Campbells for that cough. There’s going to be a swimming bee at the village watering trough. Buy a case of ginger-ale, it makes the best of broth. Shinola’s good to curl the hair, it will not rub it off!
My sis told me the rest…
My sis told me the rest of the frogs one: Three little spotted frogs, sittin on a spotted log, eating the most delicious bugs YUM YUM! One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool, now there are two brown spotted frogs. Here’s another, I’m not sure if I have it right or not: 10 little monkeys jumpin on the bed one fell off and hit his head mama called the doctor and the doctor said “no more monkeys jumpin on the bed!” 9 little monkeys…
Hey! Anyone else used to…
Hey! Anyone else used to have those ugly rollerskates, usually with racing stripes, with HUGE orange wheels? I had blue ones with ORANGE stripes! I think they were hand-me-downs from my sister (I had them in the mid 80s-early 90s, until I finally got Rollerblades). I learned to rollerskate when I was about 6 or 7. They were big and heavy, and pretty clumsy, but a lot of fun to use. Mine got pretty worn out, I remember once, I was skating with a friend and suddenly, the axel and front wheels fell off my skate!! I got rollerblades pretty soon after that… The first time I went to the hospital (er) was because of those skates… I was rollerskating, and the ground got suddenly bumpy/gravelly, and I fell down and hurt my arm. It hurt a LOT and I couldn’t move it. I sat there yelling HELP for about 3 minutes until finally someone stopped… My parents drove me to the er. The whole time I was holding my arm strait, I couldn’t bend it at all. They x-rayed it, then a doctor came in, said it was just a bad sprain and forced my arm to bend! That HURRRRT. I guess it was so he could put a sling over it, but sheesh! The worst part, though, was when I went to school and these mean girls kept saying that I was lying and my arm wasn’t really hurt. Too bad it was my non-writing arm, though, so I could still do my school work, hehe… (Isn’t it always the wrong one? 🙂
That’s funny… Everyone…
That’s funny… Everyone I know calls them Underdogs, not underducks. Maybe it’s different in different places (I’m from Chicago) You push the person in the swing, then say One! (push), Two! (push), Three! (push)… Underdog! And you push hard and run under the swing. The 2 kids I babysit for are constantly asking for them. I usually say no, especially with the older one (longer legs), cause I don’t wanna get kicked in the back! It is fun to give, though!
Well, this isn’t exactly…
My first pet was our family’s…
My first pet was our family’s dog. She was actually a part of the family before me- my parents got her as a young puppy, and she was a year older than me. She passed away when she was nearly 17 (RIP Tansy). I always had some kind of little animals, starting when I was pretty young… Started with some goldfish, which I’d usually win at carnivals. Later I got some frogs/toads, a couple newts (not all at once) Finally in 5th grade or so, my science teacher’s hamster had babies, so I brought one home. He was a great pet, never bit… I named him Hambrain. Pretty soon after, a friend’s hamster had babies, and I brought 3 home. I caged all 4 together, and you can imagine what happened next… I ended up with generations and generations of hamsters, I think the most I ever had at once was 20 (about 12 were babies). Between me and the friend I got them from, we supplied the whole neighborhood with pets! It was pretty cool, all the hamsters were so friendly and most never bit, I guess they had good genes. I think I had about 6-8 generations of hamsters. The friend and I tried to make a hamster family tree of all our related hamsters. It was pretty complicated- there were great-uncles and nieces that had offspring, etc… I guess inbreeding isn’t really a problem with hamsters, we never had any bad health problems. These were Golden hamsters, the odd thing is everyone keeps telling me now that you should NEVER house Golden hamsters together, because they’ll kill each other. Most of mine lived with other hamsters, I had up to 5 or so in one cage at a time, never hurt each other. When I had the original 4 hamsters, I also bought 2 mice who lived with and got along with the hamsters. I ‘co-owned’ the mice with another friend, and when they would stay at her house, they would be caged with her 2 hamsters (who were related to mine) and they always got along too… We even had sleepovers where we would bring our hamsters and the mice and they’d all sleep in the same cage, and they seemed to enjoy it.
I was definately a tomboy….
I was definately a tomboy. My favorite things to do were to climb trees/fences, and to race people… Actually, I remember once when I was like 6-7, and I had cut my hair (yes I cut it- in kindergarten, very short- my mom kept the scissors away after that!) and someone called me ‘young man’ (I NEVER wore a skirt/dress, except for school picture day)… hehe.