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?

Oh I know the song now!

Cinderella dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
How many kisses did she get
1,2,3,4.....

I'm co down too!

We had catchies or chasies.

We called it 123 round my way (East midlands)

Does anybody remember:

High low, pick a low,
Pick a low, high low,

(and then I think)
High up, down low,
Too slow!

glitter i know of ip dip, but we never used it. The potato thing was prevalent. Whereabouts are you?

Ok going wayyy back now. Handstands. There was a 'simon says' type person who chose the style, and by god they had names. Jellywobble. Ambulance. Flip flop. The director was also the judge, and the winner was the new caller. I do not remember ever being the caller. Shit at gym

hahaha Jen I forgot that one about Cinders!

Sardines!! That's one of the ones my cousin taught us but I forget how it went?

Anyone remember the Gospel tennis ball rhyme? Matthew Mark Luke and John, next door neighbour carry on? And the tennis ball in a leg of your mum's old tights, stand with your back to the wall and whack it side to side etc?

we always said "eeny meeny", apart from the odd badly-brought-up types who went in for "ip dip bird sh*t" etc.

Do kids even play these games any more? It's so sad if they don't ..it's been years since Iv seen groups of kids playing or skipping now that I think of it

No kids seem to play out anymore. My 7 year spends every day playing out by himself

Exactly the same "I went to achinese bakery"....

Also an awful one looking back
"my boyfriend gave me an apple, my boyfriend gave me a pear, my boyfriend gave me a kiss on the cheeks and he threw me down the stairs. I gave him back his apple I gave him back his pear I gave him back his kiss on the cheek and....

jenlindley its reverse hide and seek. One person hides, and the rest seek. When they find, they hide with them. The last person to find is the next initial hider.

Alwats results in seven kids giggling in a wardrobe.

Or possibly, just possibly, seven grown women on a hen do in a big rented house, giggling behind a curtain at 2am

Chinny Reckon was Chinny Billy Santa round my way (North West). Chinny you put your fist on your chin, for Billy you brought it down to about chest level, then for Santa you swept it out extravagantly in front of you. Maybe ties in with the beard thing other posters mentioned? Santa has a long beard but I don't know who the Billy was.

We'd also shout "Billy Boswell" if someone was clearly bullshitting. Maybe he was the bearded Billy? No idea who he was but remember the name clear as day.

The skipping game was "England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Inside, Outside, Inside, TAILS!" You jumped with one foot inside and one outside the elastic for the first four, both feet in/out for the next bit then both feet diagonally on the elastics for the tails bit.

There was something that was something about burglars in the night."and this is what they said to me..."?

Not last night but the night before
25 robbers came knocking at the door?

I remember "the big ship sailed..." as well. Always thought it was about the Titanic for some reason

Chinny reckon/Jimmy Hill here!!

Suss/gutted if someone got something wrong.

Faynights/squitsies accompanied by crossed fingers (thrust in their face) to mean you were immune and you couldn't be made 'it' or 'on'!

I also remember lots of playtimes spent 'joining up' for kiss chase/it etc around the playground-you'd end up with half of the class 'joined up' and arm in arm ready to play-but then the bell would go and you'd run out of time to actually start the game!!

I also remember a bizarre clapping (or maybe handstand related?!) rhyme about Diana Dors! 'I'm Diana Dors, I'm a movie star, I've got cute cute lips and a ten foot bra!!

Thanks fast! That has given me the best memory of me and my cousin getting stuck on the top shelf of my hot press and being too scared to call my mum to help us get down as she would shout. Eventually my sister found us and touted.

We played Sardines!! Loved it.

'Akee 123' is the game I thought of too when I started reading this thread; also mentioned as '24 Save All' on here. My children call it 'Tip the Can'

The catch a person so they are then on - 'tig' ' was what I called it, my children call it 'catch' and my younger relatives call it 'tag'

Yes glitter that's the one!!

Not sure if this was skipping or clapping but:

'When Susie was a baby, a baby Susie was and she went whaah! X7.
This escalated agewise until:
'When Susie was a teenager, a teenager she was! And she went Ooh! Ahh! Ive lost my bra! Ive left my knickers in my boyfriend's car! '
Hahaha!!!

Mogloveseggs....I remember playing that (North West)

Oh an it was chinny reason and Jimmy hill where i grew up