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Bella · 01-21-2008, 03:29 PM

There was a particular song that stands out that we used when bouncing the ball under our leg - I remember it had something to do with the alphabet...
Didn't have a lot of concrete (grew up in a very rural area) so we had to draw our hopscotch in the dirt...lines got buried alot...

This is fun...

nONIE · 01-21-2008, 04:50 PM

Bella,

Was it the song about"my name is Anna and I come from Alabama with a car load of apples." Then you would go on to the b's and all thru the alphabet????

Did anyone mention Double dutch jumprope where you use 2 jumpropes going at the same time in opposite directions?

nONIE · 01-21-2008, 04:52 PM

Sorry, I see double dutch was mentioned, another senior moment. sigh!

Bella · 01-21-2008, 06:17 PM

Nonie,

What a memory - that's the song...

01-21-2008, 07:26 PM

Bella just to let you know my sister did the bouncing and singing not me!

bsliny · 01-21-2008, 08:11 PM

Do you remember Stick Ball Punch Ball Running Bases Monkey in the Middle Ring ALeevio
(not sure about the spelling )and what about Stoop Ball

KathieI · 01-21-2008, 08:17 PM

Nonie, great memory, Kid. But I remembered it too, can't believe that and after the surgery I had... good for me...

Now, does anybody rememberrrrrrr bouncing the spaulding, singing "A my name is Anna and I come from Alabama and with us we bring apples," and thennnnnnn crossing your leg over the ball (there was a name for that action and I can't remember it)

....and as you sang on by the time you got to L's, you had to be able to jump up in the air and double cross your legs over the ball. Gosh, today, I'd fall flat on my tush!!

JohnnyM, you've got the game of Pottsy perfect. I remember it all too well. Yes, chalk too expensive, we used stones... ha, ha ha, ha I love this thread!!! Kathie :redface:

nONIE · 01-21-2008, 09:49 PM

Kathie, it sounds like you would have to be a contorshinist (sp?) to do that bouncing ball trick. Gosh we were never that advanced!!!Also Reds Hula Hoop trick I was amazed reading her post. You girls were really tricky ! LOL

You should have been on Ted Mac's amature hour.(remember him?)

Avista · 01-22-2008, 12:14 AM

Nonie, Of course I remember babushkas. They were tied in front under the our chins, of course! Will try to find a picture and post.

nONIE · 01-22-2008, 12:26 AM

Sorry Avista,

guess I didnt make myself clear. Our babushkas were tied ON our chin between our bottom lip and lower chin. That was supposed to look really cool! LOL

nONIE · 01-22-2008, 01:27 AM

How about the big black velvet bow stuck right up in front of our huge boufant hairdoo!

OMG I cant stop!!! 040

Barefoot · 01-22-2008, 01:34 AM

My husband said to me today "I wonder ..." and I replied "Don't wander too far, you might get lost". That was one of the stupid high school expressions I used when I was 14; I could not believe it actually came out of my mouth!

Or when someone asked us to do something, we would cleverly reply: "Who was your servant last year?"

Anyone else remember the stupid high school expressions they used?

nONIE · 01-22-2008, 01:46 AM

See ya later alligator, after while crocodile! Later Gator!

oh how corney we were.

chelsea24 · 01-22-2008, 01:51 AM

Yeeeks! I still say Later Gator, especially since we moved here! Here's an old expression used on the guys or snotty girls when they were staring at you "Take a picture, it lasts longer." I'm sure we've all used that one. I'm still with ya on the busbuska's Nonie. On chin or between the lower lip and chin. Lol ;D

01-22-2008, 04:35 AM

Bungalow Bar Ice cream truck, The Good Humor Man, Hear a knock on your door and it's the Dugan man selling doughnuts and cake. The beungalene man (Sp?) for the clothes washer. Bottles of milk at the front door in the am and of course the Italian Ice Cart man scraping the ice into a little pointed cardboard cup. How, oh how did we survive taking swigs from our best friends soda bottle....we never got sick. Johnny

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