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[challenge entry] Did anyone else call it this?

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(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:17, archived)
# no, you are utterly utterly
alone (probably). Nice pic.
Edit: but we called it "Nick-Knock-Nanny", so probably I am too.
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:18, archived)
# nah
we called it 'Knock Down Ginger' (London/Essex)

woo!
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:19, archived)
# why ginger?
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:20, archived)
# i have no idea
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:21, archived)
# exactly
"knock down ginger" makes no sense at all. "Chap door run" however, does exactly what it says on the tin. Chap on the door, and run away. Hurrah!
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:29, archived)
# the name doesn't really need to make sense though
once you explain that it means to knock on someones door and scarper that's the end of it

(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:35, archived)
# but it could mean
"hit the redheaded child" - which was also a popular game where I grew up.
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:40, archived)
# we
call called it knock door run. kinda self expanatory really
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:20, archived)
# are you from
'up north'?
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:21, archived)
# no
bumfluff (bournemouth)nearly as south as you can get (without getting wet)
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:23, archived)
# aaah
my northern flatmates (manchester, leeds etc) all call it knock door run, and think i'm a nutter for calling it Knock Down Ginger
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:24, archived)
# knock down ginger makes no sense.
my parent's are scottish so maybe it's a dormant gene*



*probably not though
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:26, archived)
# We called it Knock-door-run too
in Midlands

/edit: LOOK!!!!!!! I HAVE AN ICON!!!!!!! THANKS B3TA!!!!!!!!
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:26, archived)
# we called it "knocky nine door" in Newcastle
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:38, archived)
# i know a geordie fella
who calls it knicky knocky nine doors
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:41, archived)
# we called it
shitbagging.
cos we'd leave a firecracker in a bag of dog shit, and wait until they opened the door and the bag exploded
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:21, archived)
# I used to call it knockdown ginger,
but then I'm an essex bloke too.
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:21, archived)
# we called it
knock a door run

highly original i know
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:22, archived)
# cherry knocking here
Bristol area
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:27, archived)
# cherry knocking in the bristol area?
*fwap* *fwap* *fwap*
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:29, archived)
#
whose bristols would they be then?
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:32, archived)
# nope, maybe it's a scotch term
we called it 'knocky nine doors' (in Newcastle)
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:19, archived)
# yes,
because that's its name.

Nice pic!
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:20, archived)
# Knock and run
here.
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:23, archived)
# chappy -chappy in Perth
or is that Chappie Chappie? f*ck knows.
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:25, archived)
# i did
woo
(, Mon 15 Mar 2004, 13:30, archived)