Knock Down Ginger versus Ding Dong Ditch
Knock Down Ginger versus Ding Dong Ditch
Personally, we used to call it ding dong ditch ... but I just found myself calling it the other 'fing' due to 'peer pressure' -- so which was it?
And don't anyone even dare bother trying to refer to it as 'nicky-nine doors' or other such verbal tosh ...
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Billy wrote:
And don't anyone even dare bother trying to refer to it as 'nicky-nine doors' or other such verbal tosh ...
Oh, okay.
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Harvey K-Tel wrote:Billy wrote:
And don't anyone even dare bother trying to refer to it as 'nicky-nine doors' or other such verbal tosh ...
Oh, okay.
Harvey .... you of all people!
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Billy wrote:Harvey K-Tel wrote:Billy wrote:
And don't anyone even dare bother trying to refer to it as 'nicky-nine doors' or other such verbal tosh ...
Oh, okay.
Harvey .... you of all people!
Well, not really. In the town where I grew up we called it 'Calculon 5050', but when I moved away from there at the age of 12, I discovered the 'other' name, and that's the only other name I've ever heard it called.
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I'm afraid that this is one of those things (like Brazil Nuts) for which the n-word will always immediately leap into my mind. Hopefully, that's not the case for kids anymore, but I guess I was around for the last vestige of that sort of thing.
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Re: Knock Down Ginger versus Ding Dong Ditchck.
Round here it is Chap door run.
Chap being a Scots word for knock.
Chap being a Scots word for knock.
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We used to call it "Really Fucking Annoying".
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Harvey K-Tel wrote:In the town where I grew up we called it 'Calculon 5050'
Why?
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oh ostrich wrote:Harvey K-Tel wrote:In the town where I grew up we called it 'Calculon 5050'
Why?
It was all based on statistical odds of getting caught, and whether or not it'd be a woman in a nightgown, or a man with a pipe, etc. We used to carry slide rules and notebooks on our little adventures.
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It is, isn't it?
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I did this when I was a kid, in my gang, like a lot of people, but the lark was resurrected when we were 18 or 19 and we'd be walking home from the pub. We'd pass by rows of terraced houses in the posh part of Whitehaven (yes, there is one!) and it was ideal for knocky-nine-door.
We'd dare each other to do worse things, too - like uprooting plants from people's front gardens (we loved the word 'uproot' and if we did it we'd be able to say the word the following day if other mates asked what we'd been up to). We smashed a few windows, too. I took out the window of the Cons Club (at the time proudly displaying a large picture of Maggie T) once, and lived in fear for weeks afterward.
We'd dare each other to do worse things, too - like uprooting plants from people's front gardens (we loved the word 'uproot' and if we did it we'd be able to say the word the following day if other mates asked what we'd been up to). We smashed a few windows, too. I took out the window of the Cons Club (at the time proudly displaying a large picture of Maggie T) once, and lived in fear for weeks afterward.
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But..but...that's criminal behaviour!
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Harvey K-Tel wrote:But..but...that's criminal behaviour!
It certainly is. What kind of vandals love the word "uproot".
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We were bad lads. Just for a short while. I think it had something to do with school.
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Beebsy wrote:Harvey K-Tel wrote:But..but...that's criminal behaviour!
It certainly is. What kind of vandals love the word "uproot".
Magilla will be around to tell us that all the Kiwi vandals use it regularly.
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It was Knocky Door Neighbour when I was growing up.
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Just to be different
we used to call it Tok-Tokkie
we used to call it Tok-Tokkie
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Hugh wrote:Round here it is Chap door run.
Chap being a Scots word for knock.
Knock door run, where I grew up too, bit of a boring descriptive phrase really.
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Brer Baron wrote:I'm afraid that this is one of those things (like Brazil Nuts) for which the n-word will always immediately leap into my mind. Hopefully, that's not the case for kids anymore, but I guess I was around for the last vestige of that sort of thing.
Well, in that case: Maryann, or Mrs. Howell?
"Quite."