Games we played as youngsters....

We'd have all-day marathon sessions starting at 8am and going 12 hours just throwing and catching, throwing and catching.
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Boy! My Boo could handle a life like that! :woohoo:
 

My brother and I would line up the kitchen chairs in the kitchen and play choo choo train. I think we even had boxes of Good and Plenty, like choo choo Charlie on the TV commercials.
 
Frisbee on, SifuPhil! Started flip them things in the late fifties. Usually, there was no one to play with and got very good at boomaranging it back to myself. Great fun.
 

That Guy said:
Frisbee on, SifuPhil! Started flip them things in the late fifties. Usually, there was no one to play with and got very good at boomaranging it back to myself. Great fun.
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Coolness. I didn't get started until the mid-'60's, but I did it with a vengeance. ;)

I used to walk around the halls of my high-school and later the NYU campus spinning a disc on my fingernail. I carried a can of WD-40 and a bandana in my bookbag at all times to lube up the bottom of the disc so it would spin easier. :rolleyes:

Also a goodly supply of Band-aids, gauze, bee-sting kits and spare lighters (for the pipe). :cool:

Then when I was studying martial arts one of my first thoughts when learning a new move would be "How can I use this with the 'Bee?"
 
OH, Oh, Oh!!! Just remembered tossing the disc around on our breaks many, many years ago. We would play in the street and became wiseasses pretty quickly; playing with the air eddies around passing cars, bouncing it off roofs and windshields, bouncing under cars. One time, UPS guy came by. I tossed it into his cab hoping it would go through but he caught it and kept driving. On his return back down our little side street, he tossed it back to us. Cool!
 
That sounds like you guys had a lot of fun with the Frisbee thing. I remember trying it, but my dog was too old to chase it, and just throwing it by myself was not any good. My coordination and balance have both always been awful, so when the other kids were throwing and catching it, I couldn't run fast enough, and I ducked n stead of catching it. (Frisbee was not for me...)

I do remember the Hula Hoop craze though, and I was always pretty good at that one, and could keep it swinging around me for a long time, and enjoyed it a lot. Since I was pretty much a loner when I was a kid, the Hula Hoop was great, it didn't require anyone else to do it, and it was even better when I had the radio on, and did it with music.
 
I like the hula hoop too Happyflowerlady. :) They had some at the gym I belonged to for awhile, and I tried it again after all these years, did it just for a couple of minutes...still fun!
 
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That Guy said:
OH, Oh, Oh!!! Just remembered tossing the disc around on our breaks many, many years ago. We would play in the street and became wiseasses pretty quickly; playing with the air eddies around passing cars, bouncing it off roofs and windshields, bouncing under cars. One time, UPS guy came by. I tossed it into his cab hoping it would go through but he caught it and kept driving. On his return back down our little side street, he tossed it back to us. Cool!
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The "air bounce" - yes, they were always impressive when you could pull them off.

We used to get a lot of tourists in Washington Square Park in NYC where I practiced. It became a game to first spot them (fairly easy at the time) and then to terrify them by throwing the disc as close as possible to them. Bonus points for women shrieking and men cowering. :p

Happyflowerlady said:
That sounds like you guys had a lot of fun with the Frisbee thing. I remember trying it, but my dog was too old to chase it, and just throwing it by myself was not any good. My coordination and balance have both always been awful, so when the other kids were throwing and catching it, I couldn't run fast enough, and I ducked n stead of catching it. (Frisbee was not for me...) ...
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You might actually have saved yourself a lot of cuts, scrapes and bruises. When you start to play "professionally" you end up with a lot of sprained wrists and fingers, muscle pulls, etc. It might not seem like it, but Frisbee can be a real contact sport. :playful:

One of our crowd, Crazy Andy, used to catch it in his teeth just like a dog.

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The Wii fitness program has a hula hoop section that the wifey and I use. You have to twirl your hips just like the real thing to keep it going on the screen.

If anyone could see us, at our age, try to do this, it would be a riot. We get to giggling like a couple of kids.

Pictured is a less physical exercise we might try next.....
 
Yes, but I think I called them slider puzzles. I remember having the little hand-0hel square and moving those little tiles around and around trying to make a puzzle. They were so much fun but some were very challenging.
 
Jump rope and red light/green light and Mother May I? Those were the games we played and when I was inside I played secretary. I had my desk and all my papers and things I needed to be a secretary. I was an only child so I loved playing this secretary and office by myself.
 
Everything had to be horses with me. I put the dog leash around Bonzos nose, and of course, I tried to ride him, but he would just lay down, which was very frustrating to me. Finally, after being told by my mother that I was too heavy to ride poor Bonzo, I got Suzannah, my biggest doll, and let her ride instead. Bonzo did better with this, plus I could hold onto the leash better so he couldn't lie down as easily.
Instead of the skipping, I galloped around neighing loudly and enthusiastically. I used to have a sore throat by evening sometimes. And of course, there was the clopping around with the tuna fish cans or soup cans on my hands.

In the winter, we had a great time though. The snow in north Idaho was often over top of the cars, especially ones that were not being driven, and it could pile up on them. We used to climb up on top of the snow covered car, and then sled down off of the car and out into the street. I was never very good at the trick where you run with your sled, and then throw yourself down on top of it, and see how far you can slide that way, but the boys seemed to be really good at doing that.
We also built snow forts, and had snowball fights from our forts, and if the snow was fluffy, we built huge snowmen.
 
Hopscotch, skipping, hide and seek, the usual games. Taught my grandson how to play hopscotch last year. :) We've also got a hula hoop each... I'm not very good at either of those things now. ;)


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mamacathie said:
Yes, but I think I called them slider puzzles. I remember having the little hand-0hel square and moving those little tiles around and around trying to make a puzzle. They were so much fun but some were very challenging.
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Oh how those things were frustrating. But, I worked and worked and worked on them. Think I was successful, once. Saw one online but just not the same.
 
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when I was inside I played secretary. I had my desk and all my papers and things I needed to be a secretary. I was an only child so I loved playing this secretary and office by myself.
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Very creative and it sounds like fun. My older sister liked to play school where she was the teacher and our pets and I were the students. I loved it and she actually grew up to become a great teacher.
 
Pappy said:
Remember after you ate a box of candy, like Milk Duds, you could blow in the open end and make a noise like a sick monkey?

My buddies and I almost got thrown out of the movies once because of doing this.
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YES! I was right there with you, Pappy!!!
 
We used to play tag with the ocean. After a wave rushes up the beach you have to run down with it as it recedes while getting as close as possible to its ebb and run back up the beach infront of the next wave without getting wet. Great fun. Actually introduced two non-surfing adult friends to it and we laughed ourselves silly. Actually, I sat on the rocks laughing at them getting soaked...
 

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