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Originally posted by Mike AI@May 30 2003, 09:34 AM
Colin, we used to do the same thing.... it is funny how things like that are universal....
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It is. I was just having this conversation yesterday night. Childhood mythology and rituals. "Cooties", boogeymen, "jinx, you owe me a coke!", "punch buggy!", "Engine, engine, number 9", "eenie meenie minie mo!" ....
Kids spread them to their friends and those kids grow up and spread them to their kids. My father taught me games he and his friends played as kids and I taught my friends that had never heard of them spreading the game-virus across a generation from Boston to Orlando.