And here class is a perfect demonstration of how quickly ingroups and outgroups can form in a society.
In Japanese, it’s ピンポンダッシュ which is a transliteration of “ping pong dash.”
That’s the most European phrase i have heard so far
Nicky Nicky Nine Doors or Ding Dong Dash were the only names I heard as a child. Never played since we lived in a rural area and too much distance between houses. My cousins in the city talked of it though.
Nobody else called it Knock-Knock Zoom-Zoom???
I’ve heard of most of the ones mentioned in the comments, but this one is new to me (Western U.S.).
My cohorts called it (n-bomb) knocking. Glad I never participated in it with them.
I did, and I called it that. Grew up in the middle of Arkansas and didn’t know any better. I learned better eventually, and I regret things I did and said back then.
South Florida myself, which there isn’t a great divide between the two culturally.
Florida is the Arkansas of the Gulf Coast.
The scouse version of this prank is they nick your telly and run off down the street with it.
It was called knocky door ginger when I was growing up, and ive since learned that my neck of the woods boasts the highest percentage of variation in shades of ginger hair in the UK.
Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?
Doorbell prank.
“Knock-a-door run”
We are but a simple people.
It’s Nicky Nicky nine doors
Dyraat
Why not ring and run? Or ding and dash?
How do people get such dumb colloquialisms to stick?
Belleke trek
