Comments on: Top 10 Childhood "Sports" I Still Wanna Play http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/ The World's Most Popular Independently-Owned Website for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women Sat, 25 May 2013 09:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257299 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:52:24 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257299 Double dutch. I started a double dutch craze at my elementary school that got so bad I had to bring my own ropes because there were NEVER any available. And then the popular kids started taking over and I lost my ropes and took up the flip-bars instead.

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257298 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:51:08 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257298 I love marbles! I have some still, in a nice little bag. Also, Pogs. I never played at school, but my brother did. When he left home he left them to me. And then I lost most of them because I was a stupid little kid who didn’t understand how cool it would be to have them now :(

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257295 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:48:46 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257295 Gah, I mean pole! I’m still in election mode!

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257294 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:48:05 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257294 One of my fondest elementary school memories is climbing to the top of the tether ball poll to hook the ball back up after winter break. And then giving my friend a boost to get the other one.

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257292 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:45:09 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257292 Everyone puts their head down, save 7 kids; they’re the 7 that are “up.” Everyone with their head down puts their thumb up, then the 7 go around and push down the thumb of one person a piece. Once all the 7 are back at the front of the room, the people that had their thumbs pushed down stand up and guess who tagged them. If you guess right, you get to be up and the person who tapped you is back down. The “up” people continue to be up until someone guesses them correctly.

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257290 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:42:25 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257290 HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE? We played that game *so* much.

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257289 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:41:25 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257289 We played a variation of dodgeball that involved more, and softer, balls. Once I was the only kid left on my team (of like 15 kids!) because I had been going around picking up balls and giving them to people who could aim really well. I didn’t notice until every started yelling at me from the sidelines, I just went on my merry ball-gathering way. Stupid PE teacher wouldn’t call Jail-Break!

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]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-257286 Elizabeth Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:38:24 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-257286 There was a video floating around the internet not too long ago where a bunch of kids had one on campus and were trying to hotbox it, until campus police showed up…

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]]> By: Ruby http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-238059 Ruby Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:27:04 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-238059 Bullrush anyone?? Funniest game ver may only be an Aussie thing but soo good as the one girl in my school who was comfortable around guys it was the bee’s knee’s (sarcasm I’m not my mum I don’t use that term) its where you have two areas such as a grass area and you have to run from one side to the other while the person who is in tries to catch you as you do it. You end up with like 20 kids running for their lives, another great game is murder in the dark it’s like tips but you have to walk because the lights are turned off. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THEY KNOW THESE GAMES.

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]]> By: Ruby http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-238055 Ruby Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:15:55 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-238055 That always hurt my nose

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]]> By: hny_b http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-196151 hny_b Wed, 02 May 2012 12:58:50 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-196151 Yes! Very mystifying. I remember the first time I saw one in 3rd grade, I was like what the FUCK is this thing, and why is it so awesome? Like, who invented it? Perhaps it was engineered to be some kind of top secret military training tool, but then someone said, “Let’s bestow this gift upon the youth of the world to offset some of the smaller horrors of adulthood.”

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]]> By: Elise Parisian http://www.autostraddle.com/top-10-childhood-sports-i-wish-i-could-still-play-136876/#comment-195865 Elise Parisian Tue, 01 May 2012 23:01:50 +0000 http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=136876#comment-195865 Does the Ouija Board count as a childhood game? I still really want to try that..

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