Chinny reckon...

[Caramellattelady]

I have seen that phrase on MN several times since I started lurking around on here, despite never having heard it in real life. But from context and similarity, I guess it means the same as "itchy chin" which we used to say as kids to mean "yeah, right". I'd be willing to bet the accompanying hand gesture was the same too!

It got me thinking cos I'm a loser about other (possibly regional?) differences in sayings or games. One example I always remember cropping up when we were kids is the hide & seek game known either as 40-40 or 50-50 (obviously the 50-50-ers were just wrong..)

I find this kind of thing fascinating and would therefore like to open the MN floor to other examples....anyone?

The elastic round legs was just 'elastics' for us spankhurst.
'England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales;
Inside, outside, inside, out (or treads if it was knee height or below)'

We did '40 40 in' OP, also 'kick the can'.

French skipping for us was also called double Dutch (two rope skipping)

In elastics & French skipping you had 1st & 2nd endie - usually 'bagsied' (as in "bagsied not 2nd endie)!

Even as a grown up a few years ago (aged 32), when one time an extra duty came up at work that we had to do - there was the option of days or nights, but both had to be covered.
I shouted "bagsie not doing nights" without thinking - when they started taking preferences.
I was put straight onto the day shift first, when someone else questioned it, the boss said "well she bagsied it", without a trace of irony and everyone else (all adults) agreed that bagsie rules always apply!
It never leaves us...

It wasn't chinny reckon here but chin ruuuuuuuub! And you had to over pronounce rub. No idea why.

Can you remember when there was a group of people walking round in a line singing "who's wants to play, it (or whatever the game was)? If you wanted to play you'd join in the line too!

Ahh, good times...

MangoMoon i'm also the grand old age of 32 and Bagsie rules definitely still apply in day to day life... Most often used in our house for the next poopie nappy change

Moanranger we also used to shout "olly olly ochs in freeeeeeee" at the top of our lungs in 40/40 home for the same reason but what on earth does it actually mean?

Crocodilian if you said 'cacked it' where I'm from they would think you had pooped in your pants! Cack means poo.
And a Benny is a tight woolly hat.

We didn't have bikes we had scooters!
We wore pumps for PE
And ate cobs (crusty) or rolls (soft).

I wonder if anyone remembers a sort of dance/clapping game that contained the line "Here comes the other one, just like the other one" that required one girl to strut down in a fancy kind of way between two lines of girls? I've been trying to remember the rest of it for years but have never come across anyone else who remembered it.

I just tried googling it (don't know why I didn't think of it before) and have only been able to find a handful of references - all American, strangely. I don't know how the game reached a South Wales primary school in the early 1980s!

It seems to be called This Way, Valerie, though I don't recollect that at all:

www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/thiswayvalerie.html

Sorry, that should have been early 70s, not 80s.

Hack I love that about these childhood rhymes and games. They cross continents. Travelling with people as they move and you see the variations from county to county and then country to country.