Working out who would be "It"

[DJS]

What was your preferred method?

eenie meanie.......

eetle ottle......

dip dip....

potatoes

[Charles Bannerman]

"Eenie... meanie" in my day.

But nowadays that presumably becomes.....

"Eenie meanie miny mo

Catch a pigmentally intense person by the toe...."

[Kingsmills]

One potato, two potato.........

[caley100]

It was always 'eenie meenie' but the words we used would not be appropriate now...

What do kids use now... or have games consoles made choosing extinct?

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

eenie meenie for me too!

and being the 'politically correct' person that you have grown to love...... :015:

in our house it is... catch a TIGGER by his toe!

or the proper spelling being  tea~eye~double~g~ rrr  :001:  i know, i watch winine!

[RednBlackComeback]

"Ok everyone feet in !!!"

Then it was "My mu'err an your mu'err were hangeen out the washeen...."

cant remember the rest of the rhyme tho!

My personal favourite had to be the one for who got to pick teams first. Normally the two best players would stand facing each other about 10 yards apart and then, taking alternate turns, put one foot in front of the other. The winner was the one who landed their foot on top of the others first. But no tipsies allowed mind !!!! :015:

[RednBlackComeback]

Or how about

"Draw a snake upon your back... cut off it's head... cut off it's tail....which finger touched you last?"

was always the preferred method for hide'n'seek:003:

[Kingsmills]

Eekie ockie horse's .......

[caley100]

My old man used one years ago:

Eettle ottle black bottle, eettle ottle out.

Cant believe i've replied twice to this thread.... wheres the feckin football?

[DJS]

Some excellent snecky social history here.  Such things were a part of all of our childhoods.  My own personal favourite was a ditty that rhymed so beautifully and scanned so perfectly that it was surely the work of Keats or Wordsworth.

Dip dip birds sh*t you are not it.

[Caley Fish]

We used the old classic eenie meanie as well as  Dip Dip Dog Sh*t F*cking bstard hairy and you are not going to be it.

[kaiser]

"Ok everyone feet in !!!"

Then it was "My mu'err an your mu'err were hangeen out the washeen...."

cant remember the rest of the rhyme tho!

My personal favourite had to be the one for who got to pick teams first. Normally the two best players would stand facing each other about 10 yards apart and then, taking alternate turns, put one foot in front of the other. The winner was the one who landed their foot on top of the others first. But no tipsies allowed mind !!!! :015:

I remember...

                      " My mu'errr an yoor mu'err were hangeen out the clothes,

                        My mu'err punched yoor mu'err on the nose -

                        what colour was the blood?"

Wow, what a flashback.

[RednBlackComeback]

I remember...

                      " My mu'errr an yoor mu'err were hangeen out the clothes,

                        My mu'err punched yoor mu'err on the nose -

                        what colour was the blood?"

Wow, what a flashback.

Aye that's it.....then you'd spell out the colour they chose on everyone's feet " R-E-D an yoo are not it!"

:015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

[Scarlet Pimple]

My stepson, 20, would say..."are you people for real did you not have a laptop when you were small."?

I say...poor young sod, he disnae ken whit he is missing, the fresh air, the excitement, the squabbles and the general interest of a youth well spent..... :clapping04:

[+CaleyD]

Deciding who was "it" was often a game in itself.  One of the ways we used to decide was by having one person turn their back and giving everyone a nuumber, they then picked a random number to be "it".  Was suprising the number of times the person with back turned chose their own number  :015: - a similar method was also used for picking teams for football etc aswell.

[BIGTAMS]

How about Knifey Knifey, stretch them legs boy. :019:

[kaiser]

^^that sounds a bit full-on , sure you're on the right thread BT?? :010:

[CaleyJulz]

Just came for a nose in this bit and i remeber all these the kids that play in the park near mine still use the numbers one caleyd is on about to pick teams for football.

How about douing one for whos round it is in the pub ???