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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:26 -0000, Gilles Tran
<gil### [at] agroparistech fr> did spake, saying:
> 47cfca31$1@news.povray.org...
>> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
>> and her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini,
>> not
>> the bug. I don't know where they got it from.
>
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years
> ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
On the subject of games I have a vague recollection of someone writing a
book about it. He travelled around schools and made a note of what was
being played; I think he was surprised at the cross-pollination i.e. all
the schools had some form of Tag or British Bulldog etc.
Heh just checked Wikipedia had British Bulldog - "characterised by its
high level of violence and physicality, leading it to be banned from many
schools", but that's why it was fun.
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Phil Cook
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