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# it's more fun if you run
I was giggling also.

Quick question : we used to play a game called 'thunder & lightning', this involved knocking like thunder on some poor sods front door, then running away like lightning.

A load of friends who live in Kent say they used to call it 'knock down ginger', which is a ridiculous name.

Does anybody else remember playing this game, and if so what did you use to call it?
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:01, archived)
# knock down ginger
thunder and lightning - tsk
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:05, archived)
# nowadays
people tend to do it to our door, as it's got four buzzers on one panel, and I always feel like hanging out of the window and shaking my fist angrily.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:07, archived)
# yep, knock down ginger
mind you, for some reason we learnt british bulldog as "rush and singles"
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:07, archived)
# you are crazy
thunder & lightning is a much better name.
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:09, archived)
# pah
how gay.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:10, archived)
# hah!
and 'knock down ginger' isn't gay?
I bet you skipped about singing 'tra-la-la' when you played it! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:15, archived)
#
I'm a girl, I can if I want - Gibbon played a variant called knock down ginger dares where you had to stand at the door for as long as you dared - very heterosexual.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:22, archived)
# I played British Bulldogs and witnessed the most shocking move ever
Towards the end of the game there were about 7 or 8 left free and about 20 odd running at us to catch us. This kid next to me ran at these kids running hands held to form a barrier and he forward somersaulted over them, clearing them, landed on his feet but crouched down to the ground and everyone else got caught.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:25, archived)
# ninja
stylee! :)
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:28, archived)
# Just knock and run,
not very imaginative is it?

And I stopped playing it when a guy in wheelchair came to the door; I felt really guilty. Still I was 24 and should have known better.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:06, archived)
# "time to go away"
you thought
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:13, archived)
# Ah yes - i remember it well.
Lovely sponging going on.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:17, archived)
# i hate to ask, as the replies are devastatingly obvious
but did anyone else play "corridor scat" at school?
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:45, archived)
# Hmm...
It is racist and I really don't understand why it was called this... but people around here always called it "nigger knocking".
(Dahaka, Wed 23 Oct 2002, 18:56, archived)