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So lets take a trip back in time. When you were young and in school what type of things did you during recess. or games did you play when it was raining outside?
I was always big on doing cat's cradle, Hand clapping games (like slide). TV tag.
and when it would rain i always look forward to playing 7 up.
How about you?
We had this game at my school called "Toilet Monster" which involved having one person (the "Toilet Monster") inside this pyramid-jungle-gym thing who would try to jump up and tag the kids hanging around on the outside before they would hit the top of the pyramid and "flush" him. It was a pretty unbalanced game because the Toilet Monster's odds were pretty damn low but none of the kids seemed to care.
Myself, I liked to stay indoors and play Word Munchers:
http://www.vizzed.com/videogames/app...Munchers-3.png
HEADS UP 7 UP YES
And I always played board games like a pro.
We had a ton of four square courts and everyone took it very seriously. During the winter, the snow piles formed by plows also caused dangerous games of King of the Hill!
In our innocent youth, a few friends and I would spend rainy days drawing the levels to an incredibly racist fictional game called 'Muslims Strike Back' (Because terrerists = muslims, natch). They were all dressed like ninjas and were trying to nuke cities.
And then 9/11 happened and we became soothsayers and were championed as patriotic local heroes.
In primary school, during normal lunch breaks we'd either play football with a bunch of kids from various grades (at one point "banned" because there were separate play areas for certain grades or some trout), do backflips off the swing sets or play handball which I have been led to believe is the same as this "foursquare" Sephex mentioned only it rarely was limited to four squares.
During rainy days when we were stuck in the classroom we made castle and catapults out of these wooden blocks used for maths. There were ones cubes, then a stick of ten of those glued together for tens, ten tens stuck together for hundreds, and then ten hundreds stuck together for the smurfing behemoth thousands. You could easily make a catapult out of a ten block as the fulcrum and the hundred as the rest of it, and then launch ones around. We often threw thousands around though and got in huge trout for it.
At high school it was the same until we got too lazy to go to the oval so just handball. There was a period in year 12 where we did pissweak "parkour" off this one brick wall but nobody really had the balls to do anything impressive because if you fell you broke your everything. One day I will go back and wallflip that smurfing wall, I swear. On rainy days the school smurfing hated us so made us stay outside anyway. :bou::bou::bou::bou:s.
Kill the man with the football, some basket ball, hacky sack, and ultimate frisbee.
There was also a good sized bamboo thicket behind the basket ball courts where everyone went to hook-up and fool around, and smoke/drink various things and generally be the horrible little delinquents we were.
I'd just throw a basketball into a hoop by myself because nobody would let me join their games when I was in elementary and when they did I was really obnoxious about it :cry:
...I didn't go to elementary school for long. I didn't have this "recess" you all are talking about. When it rained, I was outside whether I wanted to be or not. I found very dangerous ways to keep myself entertained. Like climbing trees in random yards, playing with stray dogs, and playing with a box of matches I found.
My friends and I got together and did hand-clapping games like Down By The Bank, etc. We played four square and kickball. The last half of elementary school, I started going to the library to read at recess because Harry Potter was a hot item and I had to swallow that trout up.
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
You are just the worst.
They're your words! It's not even like I'm assembling the sentences from tiny soundbites; that one was clearly written there for all to see!
We'd put itchy pips down other kid's backs and watch them squirm for hours.
We also played pokemon and I ran around all day once pretending to be a pikachu.
Yep... we were wild.
That reminds me...I used to have a light blue sweat shirt and sweat pants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parker
When I wore that to school I was Mega Man.