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    The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future

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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    I found out just now that my crush and I have an 86% and 92% chance. WIN.
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    Image of Crackers In Bed Crackers In Bed
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    I can honestly say that I played these games as recently as last month :) Working nights at a bar isn't always exciting!
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    Image of sequined sequined
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    In the TRUE LOVE game I have like a 53% chance of being with myself forever. Like before I add anyone else's name. One time I tried it with a boy with a similarly long name (seven E's between us) and we had like a 128% of true love. That game always went my way.
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    Image of goldengirl23 goldengirl23
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    My MASH's always consisted of Prince William, Devon Sawa, JTT and whoever the "grossest" boy in our class was. Usually it was a kid named Jimmy who had a rattail. I wonder what Jimmy is doing these days.....maybe I'll look him up on facebook.
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    03/12/09

    @goldengirl23: I had Devon Sawa as a mainstay too!
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    03/12/09

    @goldengirl23: if you have any pictures of the rat tail, be sure to tag him in them after he adds you as a friend on there. it's your moral obligation.
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    We've used the cootie catchers at work to decide whose turn it is to order supplies, mop floors, clean up a spill, or whose cigarette break is next.


    I love my job.

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    resonanteye was starred resonanteye was unstarred
    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    03/12/09

    @resonanteye: I never had the patience for mash, though.
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    Image of wednesdayam wednesdayam
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    Anyone else ever do that "KNIFE in your back, feel the blood rushing down" one? I barely remember it, from somewhere around 2nd grade... seemed kinda creepy then, and still sort of does now!
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    03/12/09

    @wednesdayam: And there was something about cracking an egg on the head too...
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    Image of andonthatnote, JOC andonthatnote, JOC
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    YOU GUYS.


    [childstoryhour.com]


    double double this this

    double double that that...

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    Image of westward ho westward ho
    03/12/09

    @andonthatnote: whoa. major flashbacks. i remember some of those a little bit, but they've been locked away in my brain for decades. sweet.
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    Image of andonthatnote, JOC andonthatnote, JOC
    03/12/09

    @westward ho: and I found some more :)

    [www.beachnet.com]
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    These games are all well and good, but I'd really like to know how one goes about grabbing another's butt crack.
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    Image of Shamrockette Shamrockette
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    I was obsessed with MadLibs as a kid. Me and my friends would get those MadLibs books and during recess, we would sit in a circle and pick random words to use. It always resulted in hilarity.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    This one was my favorite as a kid:


    Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack

    Was dressed in black, black, black.

    With silver buttons, buttons, buttons

    All down her back, back, back.


    She asked her mother, mother, mother

    for fifty cents, cents, cents

    to see the elephants, elephants, elephants

    jump over the fence, fence, fence.


    They jumped so high, high, high

    they reached the sky, sky, sky

    and they didn't come back, back, back

    'til the 4th of July, ly, ly

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    Image of hortense hortense
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    But what do little girls play now instead?
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    03/12/09

    @hortense: They still play these. Don't worry.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    03/12/09

    @hortense: My daughter got a BOOK from Klutz that had like 20 different pre-printed pages with all types of cootie catchers. Yes, they are safe.
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    Don't worry. These are DEFINITELY still being played. I know this because my dad teaches seventh grade english and he has to keep telling his kids not to make cootie-catchers during class.
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    casi nadie (loves MCC forever) was starred casi nadie (loves MCC forever) was unstarred
    Image of andonthatnote, JOC andonthatnote, JOC
    03/12/09

    @o português é muito sexy loves making jezebelian friends: Thank goodness. That gives me hope for the future.
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    Image of exelizabeth exelizabeth
    03/12/09

    @o português é muito sexy loves making jezebelian friends: This makes me want to teach middle school even more.
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    03/12/09

    @exelizabeth: What may make you not want to teach middle school is the fact that a lot of his students are very, very troubled. One of his 12 year olds had a baby a few months ago.
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    I played MASH growing up in Mexico, but the tick marks were replaced by how old you were going to be when you got married. For me it was always 21 or 22.
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    Image of LibidinousSlut LibidinousSlut
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    HELP!


    If you're doing methods # 3

    and you get 12 for True and 9 for love does that mean that me and my potential have 129% chance at love?????


    I NEED TO KNOWZ!!!!

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    Image of SkipToMyLou SkipToMyLou
    03/12/09

    @LibidinousSlut: Wrong. Sorry. You keep adding til you have a 2 digit number. so 1+2 = 3

    you have a 39% chance at love. Glad I could so helpful!
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future
    I CANNOT believe I remember this:


    Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell
    Miss Susie went to heaven, the steamboat went to...
    Hello operator! Please give me number nine,
    Don't you disconnect me, or I'll kick you from--
    Behind the refrigerator, there was a piece of glass,
    Susie sat upon it, and cut her little...
    ASK me no more questions, tell me no more lies,
    The boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their...
    Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park
    Girls and boys are kissing in the dark, dark, dark


    I thought that was SO edgy when I was a kid.

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    Image of SkipToMyLou SkipToMyLou
    03/12/09

    @tscheese: Regional differences, same idea:

    Aunty Mary had a canary, she also had a duck

    She left. them in the kitchen to see if they would...

    Fried eggs for dinner, fried eggs for tea,

    The more you eat, the more you drink, he more you've gotta...

    Peter had a boat, he boat began to rock

    Up jumped a shark and bit him on the...

    Cocktails, ginger ale, thirty cent a glass

    If you have a question, you only need to ask!
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    03/12/09

    @tscheese:

    Mine was pretty much the same except for the end:


    ASK me no more questions, tell me no more lies,

    Miss Susie told me all of this the day before she

    Dyed her hair in purple, she dyed her hair in pink

    She dyed her hair in polka dots and washed it down the

    Sink me in the ocean, sink me in the sea,

    Sink me in the toilet, but please don't pee on me!

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    Image of andonthatnote, JOC andonthatnote, JOC
    03/12/09

    @tscheese: Ours actually started a little different:

    Miss Susie had a baby

    she named him Tiny Tim

    She put him in the bathtub

    To see if he could swim

    He drank up all the water

    He ate up all the soap

    He tried to eat the bathtub

    But it wouldn't go down his throat
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    Image of bluetrain84 bluetrain84
    03/12/09

    @tscheese: The edgiest sing-song game I knew wascalled "Concentrate," and in this game one girl would sit facing away from the other, (like both facing in the same direction), and the first girl would pound on the back of the girl and say:


    concentrate, concentrate,
    people dying, children crying,
    concentrate, concentrate,
    there's an egg on your head, let the yolk drip down, let the yolk drip down...


    etc etc, with the girl in back replicating all of the different actions, like yolks dripping down, knives stabbing you in the back. Anybody else know this one or was it just from the woods of NH?

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    Image of andonthatnote, JOC andonthatnote, JOC
    03/12/09

    @bluetrain84: HOLY FUCK I REMEMBER THAT. We did it down here in NC too. It was really intense and I never understood it. And my group of friends were edgy little bishes who said it was blood, not just egg yolk.
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    Image of Her Grace Her Grace
    03/12/09

    @bluetrain84: This was a slumber-party only one for us in NC, on par with light as a feather, stiff as a board. But the words are the same.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    03/12/09

    @bluetrain84: We did this one in the wilderness of South Dakota!


    "Criss, cross, applesauce" (and you'd draw an X on the person's back, then plant your fist kinda gently in the middle for "applesauce"


    "Circle with a dot,
    Knives down your back,
    BLOOOOOOOOOOOD!
    Feel the tight squeeze" (vulcan neck pinch)
    "Feel the cold breeze" (blow on the back of their neck)
    "NOW YOU'VE GOT THE SHIVERS!" (random tickling)


    It's a testament to how comfortable I was with my friends that I let them do this.

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    03/13/09

    @tscheese: awwwwwwwwww snap :: that was my SHIT(ake mushrooms)!!!!
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