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Chinny reckon...

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Caramellattelady · 23/08/2016 22:47

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?

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FoxesOnSocks · 23/08/2016 23:59

Sticky Toffee and Posion where very similar games we played, with subtle differences.

The basics where the person who was on walked around (backwards) whilst everyone else held onto thier fingers (as much as they could depending on the number of people) telling a story.

At the point of the story they mentioned either 'sticky toffee' or 'poison' everyone screamed and ran off.

If the person who was on would chase caught anyone they tapped them saying 'sticky toffee' or 'poison' and the caught person froze - stood still either with their feet apart (in poison I think) or arms outstretched (for sticky toffee)

The still person was freed if another player ran under thier arms or crawled between thier feet without both bring tapped by the on person again.

The idea was to catch everyone so all players were frozen.

JenLindley · 24/08/2016 00:00

My daddy is a banker and he banks all day

My daddy is a shipper and he ships all day

Grin

Or we used to try and say really fast "I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, I'm only plucking pheasants 'Til the pheasant plucker comes" Grin

apatheticfallacy · 24/08/2016 00:01

Oh and holding hands in a circle with arms raised, one person would weave in and out and we'd all sing

In and out the dusty bluebells
In and out the dusty bluebells
In and out the dusty bluebells
Will you be my master?
Pitter patter pitter patter on my shoulder X3
Will you be my master?

And the person being tapped on the shoulders would dance around following the person weaving in and out of the other children until there was only one left

DesolateWaist · 24/08/2016 00:01

Chinny reckon (but said rec on) in the south west.

I wonder where it came from? It was country wide.

talksensetome · 24/08/2016 00:03

QueenBea we sang that to we had a few clapping songs....

My boyfriends name is Billy, he has a ten foot willy, one day he gave me an apple, one day he gave me a pear, one day he gave me a kiss on the lips so I threw him down the stairs, I threw him over London, I threw him over France, I threw him over the USA and he split his under pants.

My name is Kylie Minogue I'm a movie star
I got the pink frilly knickers and the see thru bra. I got the lips, the hips and the jiggley bits.

Mov1ngOn · 24/08/2016 00:04

Oh the dusty bluebells was one if my favourites when I was about 5/6. My daughter 7 really doesn't know any of these :( I think they just play role play type games

AnotherUsernameBitesTheDust · 24/08/2016 00:07

Itchy beard or Jimmy Hill here. Or just Jimmy.

40/40 was my favourite game.

We also did ip dip dog shit with one foot in a circle to decide who would be It.

We still play Stuck in the Mud with our Beavers.

HappyAxolotl · 24/08/2016 00:08

We had the rather sexist & dodgy clapping song:

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
Boys have got the muscles
Girls have got the brains
Teacher's got the sexy legs
Walking down the lane
Whit-whoo!

FastWindow · 24/08/2016 00:08

And then we discovered music and boys, and the rollerboots and skipping ropes gathered dust from that day forward.

I also loved a good bike ride. Especially if some people had come out that day with rollerboots, so you could drag them up and down the road, pretending you were a bus and the lampposts were stops.

apatheticfallacy · 24/08/2016 00:09

Some of us are bumble bees, bumble bees, bumble bees,
Some of us are bumble bees and some of us are toadstools,
Here I come to find a seat, find a seat, find a seat,
Here I come to find a seat
And here's a lovely toadstool!

(Person on dances around the circle until he song stops, they sit on the person newest when the singing's over. Person being squished either said 'buzz' or nothing depending if they had been predetermined as a bumblebee or toadstool. If a bumblebee they'd swap places, if a toadstool then the person on gets another go)

talksensetome · 24/08/2016 00:09

Fairy I always wondered if anyone else ever played it!

apatheticfallacy · 24/08/2016 00:11

Oh! And

Oranges and lemons say the bells of st Clemens etc etc! I loved that one and the excitement of being 'chopped'

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 24/08/2016 00:11

We played something which I think we called French Skipping with a big loop of elastic around 2 people's ankles, knees or waists. The rhyme was 'jingle jangle centre spangle jingle jangle out!' It was a bit odd and I always wondered if it was played elsewhere

I can't believe I can't recall anybody db the rhymes as I was brilliant at it and used to skip every break! It got really competitive at our schoolGrin

FastWindow · 24/08/2016 00:11

We lived in a long dead end road, in the late 70s- early 80s, so zero traffic in the day. Perfect.

And who got to drive the milk float at 7?we did. The milkman would let us sit on his lap and steer. Now sounds dodgier than it was.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 24/08/2016 00:12

**any of the rhymes

talksensetome · 24/08/2016 00:14

Also our version of ip dip was terrible. I grew up on a very rough council Street with a park in the middle where we could play without being heard.

Ip dip dog shit
Hairy fanny
Juicy tits
You are not it.

Lovely children we were.

DropZoneOne · 24/08/2016 00:19

My daughter is 8 and she came home about 18 months ago wanting to try out her new game on me - clapping! She knew the sailor went to sea, I googled and found cee cee my playmate.

My mum taught her elastics this summer. I remember practicing at home with it tied round chairs and the chairs always falling over!

apatheticfallacy · 24/08/2016 00:22

Erm... When you sang eenie meenie miney mow.... What did you catch by its toe? BlushConfusedShock (may well be best not to answer?!)

We used to innocently say 'knicker" which we thought was hilarious because knickers didn't have toes.m because they're underwear. Hilarious.

But the realisation as an adult of what we'd been taught to say leaves me feeling very uncomfortable indeed!

Please tell me you were taught something better?!

glitterwhip · 24/08/2016 00:24

We said tigger lol

JenLindley · 24/08/2016 00:24

We caught babies by the toe Confused why babies?

FoxesOnSocks · 24/08/2016 00:29

Weasel toes where what we caught in the end. Though I think it started out as the one I'm not going to write.

apatheticfallacy · 24/08/2016 00:29

My very best friend in primary school was black, she sang 'knicker' with me, enjoying the underwear joke. We had absolutely no idea. I wonder what our parents must have thought?! I wonder how much public shushing they had to do?

brittabot · 24/08/2016 00:29

We played "had", and "Pom pom 123". For "eeny meeny' I used to say spider (didn't understand what that was about until I was a lot older), my kids say "shoe" and have no idea of the horrible origins of rhyme.

FoxesOnSocks · 24/08/2016 00:30

Actually maybe it was a tigger's toe. The weasels popped didn't they?

DeloresDeSyn · 24/08/2016 00:33

Ah, elastics! You had to be pally with the one girl in school who owned the elastic though.

With this in mind I bought my daughter some (they have rainbow French elastic on Amazon), and showed her how to do it, she really loved it and I enthusiastically told her how everyone would be desperate to play it with her at school and how huge a thing it was when I was there and I just couldn't believe her and her friends hadn't heard of it, blah blah

Her friends played it with her for a bit - but just because they are nice friends I think, but no one else was interested apparently. Poor DD, I built it up so much, and she really loved it and had to resort to playing it with me and a chair...

But really, are they all mad? What's wrong with them? It's undoubtably the best game ever!

Also loved oranges and lemons, had forgotten that one.

We played a lot of Star Wars. Everyone spent ages arguing about who they were (my mum always did Princess Leia hair for me so no dispute there), and then the bell went.