On 5 Mar 2008 15:05:01 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>
>Tired or sore? ;-)
>

I imagine a little of both!

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Kyle wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2008 14:32:11 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> aka "Slug Bug".
>>
> 
> My kids resurrected the game about a years ago.  We were playing it like crazy
because of the popularity of the new beetles around town.  Luckily, they got tired of
playing and it died out pretty
> quickly.
> 
> Damn, Wikipedia has a page for it.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
> 
> 
> 


They don't have a variant listed that I played.

'Beaver whack!  No beaver whack-backs" << <whack!!> >>
Basically the same as 'Woody' listed on the above site.

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"Kyle" <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:22:24 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>>    Same here, no.  <sniff>  :o/

> Wikipedia explains it pretty well here...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy

     Yes, thank you, but what I mean is that I don't know of it even though 
it may have been around since the '60's.

    I've never seen it nor heard of it although I've played many games 
travelling in the UK as a kid. Is this game an American travelling game 
only?

      ~Steve~


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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
> 
>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
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>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>>  I didn't really get it.
>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
> 
> aka "Slug Bug".

Similar to "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke", you can tell what region someone 
is from by what version of referring to VW Beetles they use.  XD

bah, popvssoda.com is down...they had a distribution map of the US.

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:28:09 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>>>  I didn't really get it.
>>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
>> 
>> aka "Slug Bug".
> 
> Similar to "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke", you can tell what region someone
> is from by what version of referring to VW Beetles they use.  XD

Yup. :-)

> bah, popvssoda.com is down...they had a distribution map of the US.

I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda".  In 
Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda".  In 
> Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".

Man, I haven't had RC in forever.

Here's another copy of the map:
http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png

(I grew up near Chicago, and we called it pop)

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:42:05 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda".  In
>> Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".
> 
> Man, I haven't had RC in forever.

Same here.  Long may it last. ;-)

> Here's another copy of the map:
> http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png
> 
> (I grew up near Chicago, and we called it pop)

That was more common - my half brother used to live in Lombard, and 
that's what he called it.

Jim

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:52:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>Is this game an American travelling game 
>only?

I dunno.  Andrew may be familiar with it, since he started the post, and I think he's
in the UK.

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:52:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>
>    I've never seen it nor heard of it although I've played many games 
>travelling in the UK as a kid. Is this game an American travelling game 
>only?

I remember something like it but it never took off. It went like:
Hits, no hits back.
Whomp!
But I said "No hits back"
So!


Regards
	Stephen

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>> Is this game an American travelling game 
>> only?
> 
> I dunno.  Andrew may be familiar with it, since he started the post, and I think
he's in the UK.

1. I *am* in the UK.

2. I have never, ever heard of this game. But I've seen similarly stupid 
things along similar lines. (E.g., hitting somebody because it's the 
first of the month. WTF?)

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