Anyone remember Pencil Break?

We used to play quarters in middle school. You spin a quarter on the table and go back and forth to flick it and keep it moving. If you knock it down or make it spin off the table, then you put both hands down on the table in two fists (knuckles down). Then the other person flicks (pushes) the quarter at your fists with their two thumbs. You'd see a lot of cuts and swollen knuckles playing that game.

 

ahh, smear the queer, an un-PC game with an un-PC name. it was a simpler time.

loved wall ball, mostly b/c i was pretty coordinated so i didn't drop it very often.


and i would've forgot about the moving the quarter to hang over the edge game if Stack hadn't mentioned it.


also, in our bathroom in elementary school we had a urinal with a tiled wall behind it, so there was often a contest to see who could pee the highest up on the wall. that game doesn't sound juvenile at all. there was a spot on one of the ceilings and it was rumored one kid peed up there, but i don't believe it.


i never really played pencil break but it was definitely a big thing and i can remember a lot of the games mentioned so far, though i don't remember B-spike being (spike!) very big (spike!).

 

There was a "tank" game where you drew a battlefield on a piece of paper then held your pen a certain way where you would "shoot" your pen-mark across the paper trying to hit your opponent. There were mines etc you had to avoid...

 

HULA WARS

The gym teachers in elementary school created a tournament-based game in which students would go one-on-one spinning hula hoops around their waists in an attempt to knock the opponent's hoop to the ground. The last one standing won.

Techniques included:
Bumblebee (You lean forward, quickly alternating the foot you're standing on, so your hoop is at an angle, knocking your opponent's hoop downward.)
Hurricane (You spin around while pacing in a circle. It was effective for some reason.)
Tornado (Some variation of the Hurricane, I forget.)

 

I missed my 3rd grade field trip due to that game (missed my bus and we couldn't go on the trip).

Damn you wall ball. Damn you River Oaks Elem....

 

The stupidest game I ever played was called, "Open Chest." At recess, everyone would would walk around with their arms crossed over their chest. Anyone who didn't was fair game to punch hard in the chest. newbies learned quicky. It was ridiculous watching everyone with their arms crossed.

 

Has anybody here played the game, "finger in the culo"?

 

So that's what "Smear the Queer" is. I had never heard of it until this summer when the kids at our camp were playing it. I was a little alarmed by the name of it and hoped they weren't doing this to single anyone out. OK, now I know; still don't like the rude name, though.

 

I remember Smear the Queer. If kids were to call it that today, there would probably be a federal lawsuit.

I saw something on the news last week where some group is trying to have all jungle-gyms removed from playgrounds because they are too dangerous. Man, we sure are raising our kids to be a bunch of p*****s. Pardon my french.

Anyway, did anyone else have "book drops"? Someone would spread the word to have everyone in the whole school drop a book squarely on the floor (for maximum pop) at at exactly 1:38, for example. So at 1:38, you would hear loud 'pops' all over the school.

 

Did anyone play Four Squares with rules like clean or dirty? Clean would have to be soft, underhand hits to the other squares and dirty you could smash it right towards their face. LOL.
Also, my friends and I would also play 'multisyllabic cursing'. We would start out by saying a single curse word and then slowly string them together, all the while increasing the volume of our voice. We would end up yelling out strings of 15 curses that would inevitably include the word anal. Whoever could say it loudest before the teacher caught you would win. Needless to say whoever got caught was the loser.

 

I helped a friend of mine doctor a chop stick to look like a pencil. We added an eraser, sharpened it, and colored the tip to look like lead. It killed many normal pencils before meeting its maker.

I also remember walking around the school grounds and there would be what seemed like hundreds of broken bits of pencils every where. Our school never outlawed the game in fact they started selling pencils for like $.25 each.

Guys would buy a brand new pencil with all sorts of decorative paint jobs and never even sharpen the pencil before it would be broken in a pencil fight match. I knew guys that could break a pencil with one hit and not to brag, but I usually could break a pencil with one hit or do so much damage that my opponent couldn't put much pressure on his pencil without breaking it when it was his turn to take a lick.

 

If you don't like Smear the Queer, you would hate what we used to call knocking on somebody's door and then running away before they answered.

 

Ahhhhhh i played that all the time. Great game. Especially cause iw as the only one who knew how to revive a dead quarter.

 

haha, I bet you didn't knock on any doors in the ghetto.

 

Bragging about pencil break skills is sadder than genocide.

Thank God you didn't brag.

 

My girlfriend punched me for suggesting we go do that one night.

(where she's from it's called "Doorbell Ditching")

 

no but I remember my cousin asking me to make a hoop and then thumping a booger in it and me having to beat his ass for that

 

"Hey man, you can't use that... that's a rubber pencil!!!"

I decided not to read the rest of the thread, so... anybody play thumps?

 

pencil break was the schitz. i remember i used to ask my mom to go to west oaks mall simply to go to the corndog restraunt. the corndogs were good... yeah... but, the sticks that held them... they were the same size as a pencil. i colored those mofo's to look just like pencils and kicked everybody's arse. [edit] of course i had to take the cap and eraser off a regular pencil and put it on the fakey.

good times. thanks for the throwback, stack.