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ventaA quick survey about junior school games, for those who can remember that far back.
Yesterday, with half an eye on the rugby, I commented that parts of it were pretty much indistinguishable from an extended game of Pile On.
The basic principle of which is, you push someone over, shout "Pile On!" and then pile as many people on them as possible.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
onebyone fixed me with his special "you're a weird Northerner" gaze, and told me that the game was, and always has been, called Bundle.
Any offers? I suspect I may be relying onjiggery_pokery to back me up here.
My mum agrees that it was definitely Pile On in her day, my dad appears to have gone to too refined a school to do such things. They did comment, however, on there being a big regional variation on what you say when you're playing some game like Tiggy[*] and for some reason, such as injury, require not to be tiggable for a while.
Round our way saying "kings" (and crossing your fingers) rendered you untouchable... for a while. Anyone suspected of overusing it probably got Piled On. I'm sure someone's probably done proper etymological research into all this, but how could it possibly be better than the answers of a self-selecting LJ readership?
[*] or Tag, if you're a southern jessy.
Oh, and my Designated Hero for the Week (DHW) this week is alsoonebyone. Though I'm ashamed to admit I've completely forgotten why. I quite like the idea of a DHW, I shall try and keep it up.
Yesterday, with half an eye on the rugby, I commented that parts of it were pretty much indistinguishable from an extended game of Pile On.
The basic principle of which is, you push someone over, shout "Pile On!" and then pile as many people on them as possible.
onebyone fixed me with his special "you're a weird Northerner" gaze, and told me that the game was, and always has been, called Bundle. Any offers? I suspect I may be relying on
jiggery_pokery to back me up here.My mum agrees that it was definitely Pile On in her day, my dad appears to have gone to too refined a school to do such things. They did comment, however, on there being a big regional variation on what you say when you're playing some game like Tiggy[*] and for some reason, such as injury, require not to be tiggable for a while.
Round our way saying "kings" (and crossing your fingers) rendered you untouchable... for a while. Anyone suspected of overusing it probably got Piled On. I'm sure someone's probably done proper etymological research into all this, but how could it possibly be better than the answers of a self-selecting LJ readership?
[*] or Tag, if you're a southern jessy.
Oh, and my Designated Hero for the Week (DHW) this week is also
onebyone. Though I'm ashamed to admit I've completely forgotten why. I quite like the idea of a DHW, I shall try and keep it up.
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Re: Tag/Tig/It
Date: 2003-03-24 01:30 am (UTC)Nah, the game is "Tiggy", the verb is "to tig", and the person most recently tigged is "on".
cf. "Let's play Tiggy, <thump> you're on!"
Oh - and I never realised 'bundle' was a game. Where I grew up it was a form of warfare
There's a difference when you're seven?
Re: Tag/Tig/It
Date: 2003-03-24 03:46 am (UTC)The game is called Tag. Everyone knows that, surely! :)
Re: Tag/Tig/It
Date: 2003-03-24 08:42 am (UTC)We called the game "had", the person most recently "had" being "it".
We also had no scheme for dealing with injury, but there was usually a "home" in which you couldn't be "had", and which ideally was too small for everyone to fit in at once. If it wasn't, there would be a sub-game in which whoever was perceived to be spending too much time in the home would be bodily flung out by everyone else.