How dit you choose who was "IT" when playing games when you were younger.?

Question

Children have played group games for hundreds of years, choosing who was to be "IT" often caused arguements and sometimes even fights.

I'd be interested to know:

The dip or rhyme you used to choose who is "IT"?

The words you used to describe the child who is "IT", such as IT, ON, ON-IT, etc?

If you have children do they use the same dip/rhymes and Terminology for "IT"?

Answer 1

I don't know if i will get away with this but here goes: Ip dip dog sh*t fu*cking basta*d silly git you are not it. thats what we used to use we thought it was cool because of the swear words.

Answer 2

I know it's not PC now but for the record and your book We used to sing
Eeeny meeny miny mo
Catch a nig.ger by the toe
If he squeels let him go
Eeny meeny miny mo
And that was West London in the 70s
Nowadays my son would catch a Tigger by the toe

Also there was
Ip dip, sky blue
Who's it, not you

Or there was one that started
Ipadipadation, my operation
or something like that

If this system wasn't put into practice the norm would be that the biggest kid would tell everyone the smallest weakest kid was "it" and the game started from there

We generally used the term IT in that area at that time

Answer 3

Ip dip dog s***, you stood in it, gods words are true it is not you. This was done until one person was left.

There was a little monkey, running through the country, fell down a dark hole, split is little a*** hole, what colour was his blood (child picked a colour eg. red) r-e-d spells red and red you must have on you (if the child wasn't wearing red they were on, if they were the rhyme was said again).

Or the usual eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if it squeals let it go, eenie, meenie, miney, mo!

Answer 4

Sometimes eenie, meenie
Sometimes one potato, two potato

But this was the particular favorite: My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes. My mother punched your mother right smack in the nose. What color blood was it? The color would be spelled out, B-l-u-e And your are not the one to be IT. Continuing until only IT was left.

You're IT! You're IT! You can't get out of it!

We live in a rural area without any children the same ages as mine. They don't play these kinds of games. They are children of their generation and play computer games, Gameboy, and Xbox

Answer 5

When I was young (1960s) we used one potato, two potato or eenie meenie minee mo...

My children (in 2000s) use the following to remove kids until the last one standing is "it". Like others, the syncopated rhythm can be cleverly manipulated, so many many arguments ensue. I think they enjoy the arguments! I spell it like it sounds - I think it's made-up words. Oh yeah, it also goes very very fast.

Eenie meenie dip-a-lee-nee
Boo bop bop ba-lee-nee
otchie gotchie little rotchie
out goes you!

Answer 6

We did "ickle ockle chocolate bottle ickle ockle out" we would continue to do this till there are two people left in, because that rhyme could be rigged we had do another one so we did "theres a party on the hill will you come, bring your own bread and butter and a bun someone will be there with ribbon in her hair what colour will it be? (whoever it landed on had to choose a colour then spell the colour out whoever the last letter landed on they would out too and the last one in was on), it was all very scientific (Not). We also did eeny meeny miney mo catch a piggy by his toe if he squeals let him go eeny miney miney mo out you must go.

Answer 7

I seem to remember (it WAS a long time ago) everyone in a circle with outheld fists. Then one member of the circle would tap around the fists, the rhyme was "one potato, two potato, three potato, four O, U, T, spells OUT. Then that person was out and we would begin again until one person was left.

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Answer 9

I remember this one primarily because of the language:
"Ip dip dog sh*t, dirty b*stard, f**king git, you are NOT it".
The one who the dip landed on on the last 'it' would be eliminated. This would continue until one unfortunate was left standing; they would be 'on it'.
The clever thing is it's all based on rhythm and if you had a bit of nous, by working from your starting point you could effectively choose who was to be 'on it'.

Answer 10

We most often used either 'one potato, two potato, three potato, four. 5 potato six potato, seven potato, more. O - U - T spells out, so out you must go, because the king and queen says so!' or 'ip dip sky blue, who's it, not you' if we were in a hurry.
You were either 'it' or 'on it'