Rhymes You Used To Decide Who Was 'It' At School....

We used those ones aswell, but we said this instead -

'There's a party on the hill would you like to come? *whoever the finger landed on would say yes*

Bring your own bread & butter and your own cream bun (we'd sometimes say bum and then giggle)

Name your true love's name *whoever the finger landed on when say who they fancied*

*Insert true loves name* will be there with his knickers in the air

O U T spells out'

"Ip dip do, cat's got the flu, dog's got chicken pox, out goes you"

We used ip dip dog *** aswell and...

Eeny miny miny mo, catch a rabbit by its toe, if it hollers let it go, eeny miny miny mo (who ever mo landed was in or out - depending on which way round you were playing it)

Eeeny meeny macaraca raaari dominaca chicka licka lollipopa rom pop puuuushka.

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WTF?!

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We used that one

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We had an extended version of this one:

Ip dog dog ****, f***ing b***ard, silly g*t, you are not it

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we used to use this until for some reason i wrote it down (i think so i didnt forget it) my cousin found it and showed my mum!!!!!

i didnt use it as often after that!

It makes sense (sorta) if I say it out loud, Barry!

Ip dip - dog ...

or

Ippa dippa dation my operation, something, something you catch the flu and that will be the end of you O U T spells out

I'm afraid I am old enough to have grown up in a time where PC-ness didn't exist...

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Me too......it doesn't start 'eeny meeny minie mo' by any chance?

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Aye, that's the one.

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Squeeee! Me too!!

And the hand clapping thing that starts "Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky, where the bullfrogs leap from bank to banky..."

Me and my sister did this a few weeks back, in full, unprompted, without recap... perfectly. Mr C looked on with shame.

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ha ha, i remember that one!

Our version was:

There's a party on the hill can you come?

Bring your own bread and butter and a bun. (the person landed ont hen said "can't afford")

Who is your very best friend? (the person then said whoevere their best friend was)

xyz will be there will a rbbon in her hair and what colour shall it be? (the person then said a colour)

R E D spells red and you are not IT!

We also did the eeny meeny miny mo but my auntie taught us it was catch a TIGGER by his toe.

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we used to say

Eeeny meeny macaraca raaari dominaca pitcha pop a lollipop rah rah roo (well it could just have been me making up random sounds when i was younger!)

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This reminded me of a 'game' we played. Basically you had to jump up and land legs crossed, then jump up and land legs open. While you jumped you said

"cat's got the measles. Dog's got the flu. Chickens's got the chicken pox and so have you"

Now, here was the fun bit. If you landed legs open you had to take off an item of clothing ?. If you landed legs crossed you got to put it back on.

Hmmmm. Doesn't seem so much like an innocent game any more. Oooooh the shame! ?

Another one "Ippa dippa dation, my operation, how many people at the station? (person who it lands on shouts a random number). The one who comes to number x (the previously shouted number) will surely not be it 1,2,3" etc until you got to the number and the one that it landed one was "out"

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We changed it to 'tigger' wasn't until I was older that I realised what the original version was.

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In my defence, I didn't really understand what the word I was singing meant

We sang "cats got the measles , the measles the measles, cats got the measles, measles got the cats". I have no idea what it was about though?!

We also had one called Orange Balls - to the tune of Jingle Bells "Orange balls, orange balls, here we go again, the last one to sit down is IT"

wow

we use racing car number 7 uses petrol every second **** you are not it and

Tarzan monkey man hanging from a rubber band, slips falls hangs by his bowels what colour was his blood? then you say colour spell colour and then you are not it or

dip dip sky blue who's it not you not because you're dirty not because you're clean my mother says you're the fairy queen

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Racing car number 9 loosing petrol all the time
How many gallons did he loose then the person would say a number and then count that number and you were not it

Does anyone remember the skipping game that went like this:
Not last night but the night before 24 robbers came knocking at the door.
As I ran out (at which point you exited the skipping rope ran around one of the rope turners and back in to skip) to let them in they hit me on the head with a rolling pin and said…Spanish dancer turn around, Spanish dancer touch the ground, Spanish dancer do a high kick, Spanish dancer do the splits. To this we did all the requests whilst skipping!

My friend taught me one when I was in primary school and it was similar to the other party on the hill ones:
"There's a party on the hill would you like to come?" (Yes)
"Then bring a bottle of rum." (Can't afford it)"Who's your worst best friend?" (______)"______ will come with a sausage up their bum""That's the end of chapter 1".