Did you play this game in school when you were a kid?

8/11/2015 11:58:55 AM

indeed

8/11/2015 12:01:31 PM

Yes

8/11/2015 12:10:08 PM

yep

somebody would get mad and a game of smear the queer would break out

8/11/2015 12:10:36 PM

Ha.

Oh the early 90's where a strange time.

8/11/2015 12:12:20 PM

yes. nobody ever called me though because i was the red rover juggernaut.

8/11/2015 12:29:25 PM

i wonder how many shoulders were pulled out of their sockets

what about freeze tag where you had to crawl through people's legs to unfreeze them?

8/11/2015 12:40:29 PM

this probably belongs in the perpetual pussification thread, but "jump the creek" is banned in a lot of places now a days too. (the game where you have to jump across two jump ropes that represent the river bank, which gets progressively wider and wider)

TOO DANGEROUS OMG

8/11/2015 12:46:41 PM

I hated Red Rover! I was always called over because I was tiny, but then the biggest boys would always go through one of my arms. I can't believe I made it through recess without breaking or spraining something.

8/11/2015 12:47:31 PM

yeah

8/11/2015 12:59:03 PM

No

8/11/2015 1:07:05 PM

I tried getting people at my gym to play a few rounds of this but nobody seemed too excited about it

I also tried getting the powers that be at my church to allow me to start a game of it at Sunday School (1st and second graders) but that was a no-go (lawsuits). I feel bad for kids these days

see also: pickle, ghost in the graveyard, SPUD

8/11/2015 3:26:10 PM

I remember sometime after I left they took down the huge slide at my elementary school. Apparently too many kids fell off and broke their arms. I vividly remember in kindergarten that we used to stand on the end of it and jump off right before the person coming down hit you. Well, once is sliding down, and my best friend was standing at the bottom, andh e forgot to jump. There was also a hole at the bottom made by kids feet when they hit the ground, and naturally it had rained earlier so this hole was full of water/mud. We both had to get new clothes brought from home.

Also during this same year, I threw up all over this same kids while we were in the lunch line. Good times.

Also, in middle school, paerabol sprained my ankle while we were playing dodgeball. Bastard dove for a ball or something and landed on my ankle.

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8/11/2015 8:40:07 PM

^Im gonna use that. I love that.

8/11/2015 10:49:01 PM

Was playing once and they called me over. I get a head of a steam, the 2 people drop their arms down trying to avoid the catching the brunt of my shot. Joke was on them because they dropped it, I hit the arms, flipped over their arms, and kicked one of them right in the face. Gave him a nice shiner.

They won the battle as I didn't break the chain, but I won the war as he had to roll around with that black-eye for a week.

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