When you take a knife and stab in between your fingers faster and faster... is there a name for that?
Is there a name for this game?
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I'm pretty sure Siddow is correct. That's what I've heard it called. I remember seeing boys stab themselves when I was in Boy Scouts.
We did a different version of mumbletypeg, too. You face each other, legs wide apart, and threw the knife into the ground. Then you had to move one foot to the knife. Repeat until the gap is so narrow the kid quits because he doesn't want a knife stuck in his foot.
We did a different version of mumbletypeg, too. You face each other, legs wide apart, and threw the knife into the ground. Then you had to move one foot to the knife. Repeat until the gap is so narrow the kid quits because he doesn't want a knife stuck in his foot.
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It sounds related to Mumbledy-peg (sp?), but that involved throwing a knife in the ground between the other player's feet.
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Which is exactly what Joe said right above you, Poet. Nice job, there, chief.
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You brought a bat to a knife fight? Hey, then again, that might be mighty persuasive.
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I remember there was a song (chant, really) that went with the whole knife-between-the-fingers thing: "Whoops Johnny." You start on the outside of the pinky "Johnny" and move the knife between your fingers until you get to the gap between your index finger and thumb, "Whoops," then outside the thumb, "Johnny," then "Whoops" again between the thumb and index finger, and "Johnny" back to the outside of the pinky, and repeat, faster, and faster, and faster, until the "Whoops" is "OWW--WTF?"
Maybe the really weird girl who shared my seat on the bus made it up?
Maybe the really weird girl who shared my seat on the bus made it up?
No, the Johnny-Johnny-Johnny-Johnny-WHOOPS-Johnny-Johnny-Johnny thing existed in my childhood, although we played with Ticonderoga #2 pencils, not knives. We weren't stupid. Well, about that anyway.
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Sadly related: I sliced my finger REAL BAD earning my "tote n' chip" -- a card that says you're allowed to wield axes and knives at boy scout activities like campouts.
So I'm bleeding profusely from my hand when I come up to the scoutmaster and say "Can I have my safety card now?"
/dclary, of the nine fingers
So I'm bleeding profusely from my hand when I come up to the scoutmaster and say "Can I have my safety card now?"
/dclary, of the nine fingers
Damn straight! You think the scoutmaster was going to have me trying and make wood chips again?!?
Stupid scouts. I'll post a picture of the scar someday. It's this beautiful white crescent on my right pointing finger.