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A little experiment - When you were at school and you were playing tag or british bulldog...

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 21:55

or any other kind of "you're it" game, and you needed to go to the loo or do your shoelaces up, or otherwise be excused momentarily from the game ... what was the code word you used?

Apparantly in state schools it changes all over the country. At my state primary school in Brighton we said "veins" or "veinites" - public secondary was "Pax" as it is allegedly in most public schools.

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:07

Oh go on.. Dh says he cant remember and he thinks I'm mad.

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ArseBiscuits · 21/07/2006 22:07

British Bulldogs until it was banned.

lucy5 · 21/07/2006 22:08

I'm afraid, i'm with your dh, I can't remember either. Although pax sounds more familiar.

bran · 21/07/2006 22:08

I remember saying Pax, only in primary school though, I don't think I played tag in secondary school.

BettySpaghetti · 21/07/2006 22:09

Ypour DH may have a point

(I don't remember any code word /get out clause - sorry)

Aimsmum · 21/07/2006 22:11

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:11

Oh please! DH is laughing at me now

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:12

Hurray! cheers aimsmum!

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Fastasleep · 21/07/2006 22:12

All I remember saying is 'Stop stop no I mean it...STOP... oh BUGGER OFF' I think we needed a code word...

JonesTheSteam · 21/07/2006 22:13

Don't remember using it when playing British Bulldog, but when we played 'tag' in primary school, we used to have areas that we could run to and we would shout out 'cree', and we couldn't be tagged!!!

Does that count?

Fastasleep · 21/07/2006 22:13

I think we did cree for tag actually... how bizarre

cat64 · 21/07/2006 22:14

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:14

ooh yes cree counts thats a good one!

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:15

Fastasleep and JonestheSteam were you at school in the same area?

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misdee · 21/07/2006 22:15

i remember A4 (papaer size??). and er no thats it.

flutterbee · 21/07/2006 22:15

veinites for me, my 3 older brothers, 2 younger brothers and younger sister.

Fastasleep · 21/07/2006 22:16

Yorkshire?

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:16

flutterbee anywhere near brighton??

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 21/07/2006 22:16

Veinlines/veinlites/veinies

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treacletart · 21/07/2006 22:17

See I'm not mad!

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JonesTheSteam · 21/07/2006 22:18

Caerphilly - near Cardiff - not even close

DontlookatmeImshy · 21/07/2006 22:18

The only thing I remember about this game was that the teachers kept banning it, so we just carried on playing but called it something else so when they tried to tell us "X is banned" we replied "But we are playing Y".

Fastasleep · 21/07/2006 22:19

Anyone played electric chair? Now that was a painful game... we used to stop when someone cried...(usually me, I was the littlest)

JonesTheSteam · 21/07/2006 22:20

British Bulldog was banned at our school as well.

JonesTheSteam · 21/07/2006 22:20

Did anyone ever play 'Red Rover'?