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?

Hetero - we definitely had a version of "Here comes Doctor. .." but I suspect ours was a bit wrong as it makes zero sense:
Here comes Dr Vannister
Sliding down the bannister
Half way down he ripped his pants
Then he did a chop - chop dance.

Did anyone else play Inspector Wink?

Oh and we used to say catch a fish by its toe. Fish didn't have toes either!

a - croggy
b - pumps
c - barm

Love this thread! I'd forgotten about the skipping but that was HUGE at my primary school, we'd sing 'England Ireland Scotland Wales inside outside stand on the rails'. Thank you to the poster above for reminding me!

The chin thing- where I'm from (N Ireland) it was a cry of 'Yarnnnnn' (as in spinning a yarn/tall tale) accompanied by a beard stroking gesture. If you really wanted to emphasise your disbelief you mimed a long trailing beard with a flick of your pinched fingers at the end!

Ooh and:
A backup
Gut ties
A nap

That should have been:

A backie
Gutties
A bap

We used to have a thing in school 'contact', where you would slap someones forehead. I had a fringe, so luckily it never happened to me. A lad in my year done it to a teacher who had a particularly large fod. He got suspended. It was quite a mean game really. Also, deffo did chinny reckon. I still use it haha.

A) getting a lift on the back of a friend's push-bike - dunno

B) The slip on gym shoes used for PE at school? - pumps

C) A bread roll. - a batch

South west London here, I remember the gesture of chin rubbing but don't think we called it anything. My memory isn't the best though!
Yes to French skipping, and 40/40.
I tried to introduce French skipping to the playground I work in a couple of years ago, they loved it for about a fortnight and then it died out. 40/40 was good, the catcher had to call out who they saw '40/40 I see intrusive' if they said the wrong name everyone hid again, we would swap jumpers to confuse them.

I don't actually recall the chin stroking gesture in childhood. Any suspected tall tale would simply be met with "Aaaas if!" and an accompanying sceptical expression.

We played 40-40 and Tim-Tam-Tommy

They had slightly different rules. With Tommy, you were out if you were seen (like hide and seek) but in 40-40 you had to get caught.

The "big kids" would play "40-40 beats" if caught you got a few punches from the person who was "it"

Getting a lift on the back of a friend's bike was called a 'backie' where I'm from.

Oh our ip dip rhyme was just 'Ip dip, dog shit, you are not it'.

On the subject of counting-out rhymes, I've just remembered the hideously politically incorrect 'There's a German in the grass, grass, grass, with a bullet up his arse, arse, arse, pull it out, pull it out, good Boy Scout, and you are not it'. I was at primary school in the 80s. WTF?

We said chinny reckon or itchy chin or Jimmy Hill.

I am ashamed to say that we used to sing Eenie Meenie with the n word. I'm a teacher now and the children all use Eenie Meenie and they say tiger.

We used to play 40-40 home.
However if you wanted to stop playing for a moment you would put your hand up and say pax or paxies.

I remember the Chinese restaurant song.

We also played the thing with a tennis ball in a long sock. You would stand against a wall and bang it either side of you. When you got to the word 'sir' in the rhyme you would lift up one leg and bang it on the wall between your legs. The rhyme was:
Want a cup of tea, sir?
No, sir
Why, sir?
Because I caught a cold, sir
Where'd you catch your cold, sir?
From the North Pole, sir
What you doing there, sir?
Catching polar bears, sir
How many polar bears did you catch, sir?
One, sir
Two, sir

And so on until you made a mistake.

A backie
Plimsolls
Bap

Used to catch a piggy by its toe
Ip dip do the cats got the flu the dogs got the chicken pox and out goes you

What's the time Mr. Wolf?, Stuck in the mud (freed with someone crawling through your legs),British bulldog & Bust 21, basically hide & seek but if you made it to the lamp post & said screamed "Bust 21" you were safe from being the seeker.

We mainly played Block 123, Stuck in the Mud, Red Rover and British Bulldog.

Also French skipping with elastic bands and various complicated 'deny menu' type selection systems that took longer than the game itself.

We used to say just chinny rather than chinny reckon I think, said in a very mocking down and with a chin tickle rather than a stroke.

Another one we said, altho it was only for a while, was "yeah maaaate", the cooler you were, the longer you dragged out the "mate".

A) Backer
B) Sanners, short for sandshoes
C) Bread bun or stottie depending on size (that'll give away where I grew up to anyone who knows their regional slang!)

We had a rhyme that went something like
My name is Elvis Presley
Girls are sexy
Sitting in the backseat drinking pepsi

Too old for chinny here,

I remember Queenie, Queenie who's got the ball though.

Wallflower, wallflower growing up so high
Apart from from poor

Molyholy - we used to do the forehead slapping thing too and shout "Spam!" No idea why.

Anyone else know 40-40 as "down 1-2-3".

Exactly the same game, but only knew it as 40-40 after we moved house in '85.

We all used to link arms and march round the playground chanting

'We won the war
In 1944'

This would have been late 60s in Wales so at least 20 years on. We were very little at the time.

Just remembered we did this thing when we thought someone was talking shite or lying ..we'd sort of put our finger under our eye and pull down slightly saying 'eyyyyyee' as in 'aye' ..and we'd do it quietly behind someone's back if we didn't want them to know we knew they were talking rubbish ..so weird lol
Also a spin on a bike was a backie
Black gym shoes were plimsoles/gutties
A bread roll is a bap