it wasn't a lie, it was parents not comprehending that there is a difference between one person saving a token of a childhood memory and 99% of people saving a token of a childhood memory. there are 3 Superman #1 comics surviving. there are 3 billion beanie babies.
Bloody Mary, MASH, the string game (Cat's Cradle), the fortune game are ALL popular games in the US. They're known as playground or recess games. So crazy how universal our childhoods were.
I'm almost 30 and they all came across my playgrounds near DC! I think one or two of us may have done the eraser one! I had an 8 ball when I was 6 and I was all writing and tossing it on something would be easier if one said yes and the other no and so maybe it was just me actually doing it but my friends asked to borrow mine when they wanted something vs making one themselves! The only ones I haven't heard of are MASH and the butter cup one! I tried to get my Furby to swear too!
I was using the restroom at school when I was in about grade 3 and a girl came in to the restroom, closed the door, and shut off the lights, and started doing Bloody Mary. Let’s just say I was screaming VERY loud and a load of teachers came in. I’m from the US btw.
Californian here - we played a game called "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" during sleep-overs. One of us would lie flat on the floor. The rest of the kids would sit on either side (an equal number on each side) with 2 fingers under the one kid's back, and chant, "Light as a Feather, Stiff Asa a Board" overs and over, while lifting the kid up off the floor (with just the two fingers). lol
I remember I was a member of a paranormal club at my middle school in Florida back in 1974. We did the light as a feather thing during a club meeting, and it worked!
Can we talk about the fact that we all thought that turning the little light inside the car was ilegal? I thought that until I started my driving lessons
Yes, my parents for years would tell me and I quote, "turn the goddamn light off, the cops will pull us over and get a ticket. Then I'm gonna beat your ass." I was raised in the south, so this language was common to hear from your parents growing up.
@@charlesmassie8938 Dana says- My mom told us it was illegal too, but whether parents curse at their kids has nothing to do with what region they're from. Tons of Southern parents don't, tons of Northern parents do, and vice versa.
They can cite you for having a light on as distracted driving. Just like police can pull you over for having objects hanging from your rear view mirror. I know from experience. It’s an unenforced rule but you run into the wrong cop on the wrong day and you can be ticketed for it.
I was under the impression as a kid that "Ring around the Rosie, Pocket full of Posies" was a fun children's song until I discovered it was about the Plague.
That was the rumor about Mikey from the 80s Life cereal commercials. He came out a couple years ago saying, no he didn't do that and it didn't kill him. 😂
I’m 58 and I’ve never did Bloody Mary. My sisters who are 6 years older than me did get me involved in a Ouija board one night. They swore up and down that the viewer moved. I don’t remember that happening but I was like 7. Now I did play in a cemetery that was behind our elementary school playground with a friend of mine. Laying full out on people’s graves. After all of the strange occurrences I’ve had in cemeteries, I still wonder what the heck I was thinking.
Where I’m from MASH, and Bloody Mary are quite popular as well, at least when I was 8 in 2011-ish. And the buttercup game was always so funny, and I’ve just realized how nonsense it is. 😂
I can't think of a good name For some reason ours always showed very yellow even if people didn’t like butter, but still we believed it because we were so naïve. 😂
@@Victoria-kp5mk for some reason I thought it was whether you liked someone if the buttercup showed yellow. Buttercup is also a term of endearment (well used to be) so maybe that's where we got it? Idk
There was a toy in the early 90's that I forget but it had multiple characters, one of which was called "Hairy Velo" and people at my school were saying that was greek for hairy penis!
We definitely did Bloody Mary. As a child I was told that after I ate I couldn't go swimming for half an hour or I would go to the bottom of the pool and drown. I grew up in Florida and still live there. I was also told that if I had swallowed chewing gum it would stay in my intestines for 7 years.
As a kid growing up in Newfoundland Canada, we always played the buttercup game, cats cradle, and cootie catches (fortune tellers). When I moved to Alberta Canada, know one even knew about the buttercup game! So odd how different parts of Canada wouldn’t know the same games, but different parts of the world!
Yes, we were told that one too! However, it won't stay in, since as with everything the next time we go poop it comes out. Our bodies just can't dissolve it as gum is essentially springy, chewy, flavored plastic! To learn more look up the video by "Doctor Mike The Truth About Swallowing Gum | Responding To Comments #16". If I recall it's about 2 minutes in though he posts all the comments on the screen and so it will be easily found! He is a really funny doc.
We had the same ones in Mississippi. But some beanie babies are worth a lot now. I was always told if someone sweeps under your feet you would never get married. Frogs pee gave you warts.
Beanie Baby, Keenan and Kel, Bloody Mary, Finger Fortune, MASH, the Finger String game, Ferbie Swearing, Blue dye in the Pool. I heard all of these growing up in FL.
I said “Bloody Mary” 3 times in a mirror at a slumber party and somehow sliced my finger on the edge. That was nearly 30 years ago and I can still see the scar.
Here is one for you, When I was a kid back in the 60's and 70's we were told if girls swallowed a watermellon seed they would get pregnant. Great video you two are always so fun to watch and listen to.
oh yeah-- now I remember how it all connected! I was told if you ate watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow in your tummy. When I saw a pregnant woman with a big baby bump, I was told it was because she had eaten watermelon seeds and it was the watermelon growing. I think this wisdom was passed on to me by my older brothers, not my parents. But, the lies with children begin as a way to coerce them into something or to avoid uncomfortable conversations. And some stories are just children trying to manipulate each other. Except the Beanie Babies-- I'm pretty sure that was marketing because even adults believed that they would be valuable someday....and maybe they will and we just haven't reached that day yet ;)
Joel did you have the Princess Di beanie baby? Yes Lia please do the "why you thought you were an alien"!!! Shows us on a map where you both are from. Texas had the Bloody Mary, the erase (rubber), the paper thing, cat's cradle, making furby.... so funny that the same myths are both in America and the UK. Eating bread cut makes your hair grow.....LMAO!!!!!
I was a 90s baby and kid from California and we did majority of these. Except the flower/ butter thing and the eraser thing. We did play with erasers and draw/write on them.
Funny thing was, I never liked coffee growing up but I LOVED coffee ice cream.... and then when I got older, I started liking the taste of coffee (with milk/cream and lots of sugar haha). But no wonder I am on the shorter side of my family's height.... haha I ate coffee ice cream all the time!
My mom told me eating straight sugar would give me worms. I told my son that drinking his milk would put hair on his chest. When he was a toddler, he kept looking for his chest hair (to be like dad).
In North Carolina, we also thought beanie babies would be worth a lot, we did the butter flower under the chin, we were also scared to say Bloody Mary in the bathroom 3 times, and I had pride in how well I could make the paper fortune cookie.
Janice Winsor I realized later that the device I was talking about was actually called Skip-It not Skip-Bo mine had a yellow ring that my foot went through the plastic cord was also yellow and my bell on the end was a Kelly green. The bells all had jingle bells inside,we must have driven the playground monitors nuts
We totally did the buttercup thing in the 1990s in New England. also the Bloody Mary thing freaked me out and I didn’t mess with it. Loved cats cradle, the mash stuff and the paper predictors.
We had most of these things in the US, too. It’s fascinating how these things transcended OCEANS and generations. Also, does anyone remember that fancy “S” everyone would draw?
In CA as a child in the 70s we would do the flower butter thing and the scary one. I refused to do that one. I hate scary stuff to this day. Cats in the cradle for the finger yarn thing. Loved that!
Wow - J&L are two beautiful Legends. You get better looking everyday. And radiant joy and happiness from the inside out. Good together and good on your separate channels as well.
I'm from El Paso Texas, I remember all these games from my childhood, we also played a game at school called "Red Rover". My brother used to hide my Ferby because it creeped him out, as I would leave it all over the house. I don't remember aliens... then again I'm 23, I had "sticky hands" that we'd throw at the wall. Growing up I had to watch out for "El Cucuy" (my mom is Mexican) and "Krampus" (my dad is German).
I'd love you guys to do one with Joel's parents with UK parental sayings! Like, in the USA when parents say "I brought you into the world and I can take you out," or, "you make a better door than you do a window". What eye-roll worthy phrases did you guys grow up hearing?
Hay guys! Been a fan for a long time. Tho this is the first comment I've left. I'm from Canada, we also had the buttercup game, the cats and the cradle game, (with string,or elastics) the paper fortune tellers, and M.A.S.H game which was played on a piece of paper. Love your videos, and hope to visit britan someday. Which is why I started watching you guys. Love British humor, and you guys are funny, awesome people!
when I was a kid my parents told me and my siblings that if we ate our peas we would fly, so we all chomped down on our peas and kept jumping off the couch trying to fly lol.
In the U.S., we gave each other "cootie shots." With our finger, we'd draw two circles on your friend's arm, and poke the center of each circle, while chanting, "circle, circle, dot, dot, now you've got your cootie shot!" For you Brits, "Cooties" is imaginary germs you get from children of the opposite sex. So if a boy touched a girl, he gave her boy cooties, and she would need to get a cootie shot to protect from them.
In Australia we had Cat's Cradle and the paper game thing. I also remember elastics and pick up sticks. I remember a kid's game where you'd hold your hand over a friend's head and count up until they put their hand under their chin, whatever number you got to was how many boyfriends or girlfriends you have! 😂
Yes! Please do part 2, and also I'd love to see Lia's reasons for being an alien. 🤣 Btw, I grew up in America and all of these things, (except the squishy aliens making babies and the bread crust giving you curly hair), also happened where I was growing up. I'm in my mid 30s, so I'm a bit older than u both, and we didn't have the internet here either at that point, so I'm surprised how similar our experiences were! We definitely played Cat's cradle (the string game you talked about), and the fortune game with the folded paper, the eraser game, and Mash. Did you have those magic 8 ball toys?
I taught school at a catholic school when we lived in Bangesh. 3rd grade as I remenbef. When one of the boys came to my desk and "Miss, can I have a rubber?" I almost died! 🤣
"If you can pour salt on a bird's tail, you can catch it." Obviously it is about proximity of your hands to the bird, but my sweet daughter told me years later that she chased birds all over the yard with a salt shaker one day. :)
Ooo.. I forgot this one... This is just for East coasters. "Man Hunt". And smashing people's pumpkins in the streets after Halloween. I brought man Hunt to CO and everybody that played loved it.
I'm old enough to be your grannies, and I remember the buttercup (although my children don't know that), we did the fortune-teller paper, we played MASH, we believed in Bloody Mary, and we played Cat's Cradle all the time. This is back in the 60's. Being from Florida, I never would have believed the pee story. I knew people who peed in the pools all the time! Although Daddy told me the ocean was salty because of people peeing in it. Did you guys have Cootie shots? You'd go "Dot, Dot, Circle, Cross, now you've had your cootie shot." Poking people for the dot and drawing the circle and cross with your finger on someone's back or arm. That way we didn't get cooties from the boys (or they didn't get them from us girls).
Used dandelions in Chicago in the 50's. But we rubbed the dandelion under the chin, didn't just hold it there. So of course the yellow would rub off proving the process was true.
Beanie Babies were totally a thing in Virginia and we all believed they would eventually be worth a ton! We also did the butter cups! I knew people who did bloody Mary but none of my friends.
Yeah!! We did the paper thing!! It was fun! One of my friends told me that if I stared in the mirror long enough in a dimly lit room, I would see ghosts! Haha, I tried it multiple times and it never worked!
I grew up in Delaware in the US- my mom collected beanie babies, we played MASH, cats cradle string game, the paper finger game, checked to see if we liked butter with the buttercup and also heard about the Bloody Mary in the mirror.
What a walk down memory lane! We did most of these in Canada in the 70's. We used dandelions instead though because we didn't have buttercups in a field. It was to tell if someone had a crush on you. One I was always told was that if you watch TV for more than 4 hours you would go deaf. Another lie/urban myth was that Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials died from eating pop rock and then drinking Coke and his stomach exploded.
I’m in my 20’s and also grew up in the age of no internet, so it too baffles me how these things happened up and down the country. I’m from Birmingham and would do swim meets up and down the country and I used to be so amazed that kids from all over knew the same games / things.
As a kid growing up in1950s Yorkshire, we had many of these stories:- Eating dandelions makes you pee. Eating bread crust makes your hair curl. Eating sugar will give you worms. If a bird poops on you, it’s lucky. If you tread on a line, you will marry a swine, and a beetle will come to your wedding. See a pin and pick it up. All the day you will have good luck. But then I discovered one of my own: Pouring the contents of a firework into teacher’s pipe tobacco pouch, results in severe hand pain.
Bloody Mary and the paper question game We definitely had. My husband who is from Georgia, calls The paper thing a dreamcatcher. Which I never called it that because we actually had dream catchers like native American artistic items that were called dreamcatcher where I grew up in Arizona. And mash was definitely a thing. It was a combination of numbers and shapes you had to draw and you had to do it with a friend and it would tell you who you were going to marry What kind of house you were going to live in and how many kids you had. And I definitely remember the string thing but I don't remember what we called it
I think this was just my dad but, he had me believing that once I turned 18, it would be my responsibility to take care of him and mum and the house and everything (!) He thought this was hilarious, as a child I was very pressured with the thoughts of how I would be able to manage 😂😂🤣😂
Yes, taught that to my daughter a few weeks ago actually when she and her friend were worried about coodies from boys. I told them they are immune now.
I remember"cat-eyes" because you can make one, up to seven eyes. (This is separate from the one where you play with another person and make other configurations....)
@@Jack_Stafford Dana says- Jacob's Ladder was a specific pattern you could make, but not what they called the string game itself. Another pattern was called the Cup and Saucer.
@@thomasrichards6245 I remember there was a book by the company called Klutz (I think they're still in existence) that had different string patterns in it. And it came with a multicolored string to play with! And then they came out with a "string patterns around the world" book which had even MORE patterns in it!! Some of them I memorized and some of them I'd have to look at the steps, but it was SO much fun to see how fast I could make the memorized ones! And then I would play "cat's cradle" with my friends all the time, too! But, unfortunately no one today knows the game. What has happened to society?? :-(
The buttercup thing seems to be everywhere those little flowers grow. I'm in the US and we did the "do you like butter" back in the 80s. We also used to dare each other about the Bloody Mary thing as well. MASH and the fortune teller things were a big deal when I was in elementary (primary) school. We grew up with the myths "don't make a funny face because if you do and someone slap you on the back your face will stay that way", "someone fluhed a baby aligator and now there are aligators in the NYC sewers, and they can come back up thru the toilets, so check before you sit", and there were tons of stories about Cropsey .. a man with a hook for a hand that stalked sleep away camps (NYC/Hudson Valley area) and killed children who were wandering alone at night. As a kid I flat out reused to go camping. I was petrified to evensleep in a tent in my friend's back yard, even with the tent flush against the back door.
One of my roommates from college was an exchange student in the UK. As an American, he was taken aback the first time he was asked by a classmate to "borrow a rubber."
Re: the "grow hair on your chest", here in Texas over time I've heard various male adults use the phrase, "better eat that (whatever it is, usually a vegetable presumably), it'll put hair on your chest." It's only now I've thought about what a strange motivation tool that is to eat something! Hahahahaha Like, why do I want hair on my chest?!
The paper fortune tellers were called cootie catchers when I was in school long before either of you were even born. Cat’s cradle was the string game done with your hands and fingers. Forgot to say I lived in Connecticut for my Elementary School years.
in the US (Oklahoma) we had a similar thing about the buttercup, but we used dandelions, cant remember what it was supposed to mean. 6:10 even though I know that "rubber" means eraser for yall, I still immediately thought of our word. 😂 7:50 we called those fortune tellers, I had a teacher who said they were called "cootie catchers" 8:20 You are describing a "cat's cradle" lol and yes we also heard the pool dye lie.
Eating watermelon seeds will cause watermelons to grow in your belly.
I did hear that growing up but was told by my parents it wasn't true.
@@Gr8man4sex I was told that myth by my older brothers. So I'm thinking my parents just went along with it. Lol jerks
Wake of Time I was told by my cousin that I would get diabetes if I did that! I was so scared since I had just swallowed one.
I remember being told the same thing about apples and oranges 😂.
We were told that, too. Several years ago, though, I saw toasted watermelon seeds being sold in a store in Oregon. Tricky, tricky.
We in the USA definitely had the beany baby craze with the “they’ll be worth something some day” lie 😋
it wasn't a lie, it was parents not comprehending that there is a difference between one person saving a token of a childhood memory and 99% of people saving a token of a childhood memory. there are 3 Superman #1 comics surviving. there are 3 billion beanie babies.
The limited edition ones maybe worth something
Yeah I actually worked at a kiosk in a mall that sold beanie babies for a little while.
Cross your eyes & they will stay like that forever. 👀
Oh yeah I remember that one too haha!
How about "if you make a face at someone and someone slaps you on the back, your face will stick that way forever"?
Not to piggyback, but mine is similar. If you make an ugly face(like to tease somebody with), it will stay that way.
Yeah i remember that! And if you sit too close to the telly you'll get square eyes! ... now we're always inches from screens :)
What about... step on a crack, and u break your mammas back?( meaning the crack on pavement while walking anywhere and you jump over the crack? )
I was told drinking coffee would stunt your growth so when I reached 5'10" I started drinking coffee cause I didnt want to be any taller 🤣
😆that's cute.
😂
But did you get any taller?
Same 5'9intches and I drink coffee Nescafe blend 43 yummy at 14 years
Bloody Mary, MASH, the string game (Cat's Cradle), the fortune game are ALL popular games in the US. They're known as playground or recess games. So crazy how universal our childhoods were.
We didn't do Bloody Mary or MASH in California (I grew up in the 60's but my kids are mid-20's and never heard of them).
I did Bloody Mary and MASH and I live in California (and always have). I’m late 30s.
I'm almost 30 and they all came across my playgrounds near DC! I think one or two of us may have done the eraser one! I had an 8 ball when I was 6 and I was all writing and tossing it on something would be easier if one said yes and the other no and so maybe it was just me actually doing it but my friends asked to borrow mine when they wanted something vs making one themselves! The only ones I haven't heard of are MASH and the butter cup one! I tried to get my Furby to swear too!
I was using the restroom at school when I was in about grade 3 and a girl came in to the restroom, closed the door, and shut off the lights, and started doing Bloody Mary. Let’s just say I was screaming VERY loud and a load of teachers came in. I’m from the US btw.
I never heard of any of those names ever
Im 59 and from The USA and we had that same buttercup game here when I was a child!😂
Californian here - we played a game called "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" during sleep-overs. One of us would lie flat on the floor. The rest of the kids would sit on either side (an equal number on each side) with 2 fingers under the one kid's back, and chant, "Light as a Feather, Stiff Asa a Board" overs and over, while lifting the kid up off the floor (with just the two fingers). lol
Shawn Marie I remember doing that too. Could never lift anyone though😀
Brandy Arellano we all cheated and used our whole hands (but never admitted it) lol
I totally remember that! I grew up in southern California too. I wonder if people did that elsewhere.
@@emiller760408 I'm in Maryland and we did this game at every sleepover as well!
I remember I was a member of a paranormal club at my middle school in Florida back in 1974. We did the light as a feather thing during a club meeting, and it worked!
Mom would warn that if I continued to make faces, my face would FREEZE that way!
That’s the version I remember. “If you keep making faces like that, one day it will freeze that way!”
Can we talk about the fact that we all thought that turning the little light inside the car was ilegal? I thought that until I started my driving lessons
Yes!!! I think my mom told me it was, but don't quote me on it!
Yes, we were taught the same in the central plains in Driving School, A dome light on at night was assumed a quick way to get pulled over.
Yes, my parents for years would tell me and I quote, "turn the goddamn light off, the cops will pull us over and get a ticket. Then I'm gonna beat your ass." I was raised in the south, so this language was common to hear from your parents growing up.
@@charlesmassie8938 Dana says- My mom told us it was illegal too, but whether parents curse at their kids has nothing to do with what region they're from. Tons of Southern parents don't, tons of Northern parents do, and vice versa.
They can cite you for having a light on as distracted driving. Just like police can pull you over for having objects hanging from your rear view mirror. I know from experience. It’s an unenforced rule but you run into the wrong cop on the wrong day and you can be ticketed for it.
I was under the impression as a kid that "Ring around the Rosie, Pocket full of Posies" was a fun children's song until I discovered it was about the Plague.
Eating Pop Rocks (carbonated candy) and drinking soda (fizzy drink) will cause your stomach to explode.
I remember that from the '80's in USA, Southwest.
That was the rumor about Mikey from the 80s Life cereal commercials. He came out a couple years ago saying, no he didn't do that and it didn't kill him. 😂
Ah yes, memories!
"You trusted everything in the fate of this rubber." 😂😂😂😂
I STILL, at 48 years old, will not look in a mirror in a dark room let alone say Bloody Mary. Still scares me. 😱 😆
lol same. why chance it at our age, right?? lol
53 here, and YES!
chrissyzcreationz LOL! Exactly!
I’m 58 and I’ve never did Bloody Mary. My sisters who are 6 years older than me did get me involved in a Ouija board one night. They swore up and down that the viewer moved. I don’t remember that happening but I was like 7. Now I did play in a cemetery that was behind our elementary school playground with a friend of mine. Laying full out on people’s graves. After all of the strange occurrences I’ve had in cemeteries, I still wonder what the heck I was thinking.
Same! I was always too scared to do it. I work with kids now and they do the bloody mary thing still.
The one I remember most as a kid was being told that my face would get stuck if I pulled a face and the wind changed direction.
Beenie Babies, the buttercup game, the folded paper game, and cat's cradle (cat strings) are all big things in the US as well.
Where I’m from MASH, and Bloody Mary are quite popular as well, at least when I was 8 in 2011-ish. And the buttercup game was always so funny, and I’ve just realized how nonsense it is. 😂
I remember these as well. (In the US)It's so interesting that we have similar "lies" in completely different countries
@@Victoria-kp5mk The buttercup game always worked for my friends and me. It was actually always accurate
I can't think of a good name For some reason ours always showed very yellow even if people didn’t like butter, but still we believed it because we were so naïve. 😂
@@Victoria-kp5mk for some reason I thought it was whether you liked someone if the buttercup showed yellow. Buttercup is also a term of endearment (well used to be) so maybe that's where we got it? Idk
Anybody ever do "Mama had a baby and her head popped off" with dandelion's?
oh we used to sing Miss Dolly had a dolly and her head popped off! and flick the dandelions head off when you said POPPED OFF! lol
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@@heatherreid2261 we did this in uk aswell
@@heatherreid2261 Colorado... and I think even in Jersey.
The folded paper thing we called it a Cootie Catcher. Lol 💜
Kathy Reinhofer we called it a fortune teller
Finally someone who actually knows what it’s called. I was starting to think I was the only one.
🤫😂😂😂
I grew up in Northern California. Cats cradle, bloody Marry, MASH, and beanie babies were all things we had in school too!
Fun fact about the Beanie Baby named Spunky: his parents are named Randy and Fannie.
Matt Hill 😂
There was a toy in the early 90's that I forget but it had multiple characters, one of which was called "Hairy Velo" and people at my school were saying that was greek for hairy penis!
😂😂😂
We definitely did Bloody Mary. As a child I was told that after I ate I couldn't go swimming for half an hour or I would go to the bottom of the pool and drown. I grew up in Florida and still live there. I was also told that if I had swallowed chewing gum it would stay in my intestines for 7 years.
We did the "Do you like butter" thing in central Arkansas, USA, when I was a child back in the 1950s.
70s here in Indianapolis!
Son_of_Ottie 1960s New Jersey!
Me too! in the 70's and 80's in Michigan.
Same here in Tennessee in the 70's
We did it in California in the 80s.
As a kid growing up in Newfoundland Canada, we always played the buttercup game, cats cradle, and cootie catches (fortune tellers). When I moved to Alberta Canada, know one even knew about the buttercup game! So odd how different parts of Canada wouldn’t know the same games, but different parts of the world!
The gum thing, I still don’t know if it’s true or not. Gum Will stay in your intestines for seven years and build up.
Warrior Lover heard that one here in Florida many times. 😊
Yes, we were told that one too! However, it won't stay in, since as with everything the next time we go poop it comes out. Our bodies just can't dissolve it as gum is essentially springy, chewy, flavored plastic! To learn more look up the video by "Doctor Mike The Truth About Swallowing Gum | Responding To Comments #16". If I recall it's about 2 minutes in though he posts all the comments on the screen and so it will be easily found! He is a really funny doc.
@@TheMechanicalGirl999 Love Doctor Mike's videos!
It won't. But it is very difficult for your body to digest gum. It does take longer to digest than food. But not 7 years.
I have actually looked that up and no it's not true. It will just pass out without anything else happening.
We had the same ones in Mississippi. But some beanie babies are worth a lot now. I was always told if someone sweeps under your feet you would never get married. Frogs pee gave you warts.
We definitely had the buttercup, Bloody Mary, and paper thingamajiggy in the US...
john brinton paper thingamajiggy is called a cootie catcher.
We used to skip stepping on cracks. Kids would say “step on a crack you break your mothers back”
Father's back here 🏴 hehe
I love how those weird things we do as kids spread even overseas before the internet was so vast. Pretty interesting ☺️
Beanie Baby, Keenan and Kel, Bloody Mary, Finger Fortune, MASH, the Finger String game, Ferbie Swearing, Blue dye in the Pool. I heard all of these growing up in FL.
I said “Bloody Mary” 3 times in a mirror at a slumber party and somehow sliced my finger on the edge. That was nearly 30 years ago and I can still see the scar.
Growing up in Pennsylvania, we did the buttercup test, the cats cradle, the paper count game and the pool rumors.
I grew up on a farm in NY and we played with “butter”cup game too!
Courtney Batt same in NH 😊
Same in Minnesota! In the 1960s!!
Pennsylvania here, same 😂
I'm from Ohio & we did this too... except they'd then smash the flower into your chin & get flower guts all over you!
We did in PA too!
Here is one for you, When I was a kid back in the 60's and 70's we were told if girls swallowed a watermellon seed they would get pregnant. Great video you two are always so fun to watch and listen to.
Winfield I remember the watermelon pregnancy link
oh yeah-- now I remember how it all connected! I was told if you ate watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow in your tummy. When I saw a pregnant woman with a big baby bump, I was told it was because she had eaten watermelon seeds and it was the watermelon growing. I think this wisdom was passed on to me by my older brothers, not my parents.
But, the lies with children begin as a way to coerce them into something or to avoid uncomfortable conversations. And some stories are just children trying to manipulate each other. Except the Beanie Babies-- I'm pretty sure that was marketing because even adults believed that they would be valuable someday....and maybe they will and we just haven't reached that day yet ;)
I’m from the US and I am a few decades older than you and we did that as children in the 1970s the butter cup challenge LOL
Joel did you have the Princess Di beanie baby? Yes Lia please do the "why you thought you were an alien"!!! Shows us on a map where you both are from. Texas had the Bloody Mary, the erase (rubber), the paper thing, cat's cradle, making furby.... so funny that the same myths are both in America and the UK. Eating bread cut makes your hair grow.....LMAO!!!!!
Yes, the string game was here in the U.S. back in the early 1960's, when I was in gradeschool. We called it cat's cradle.
I was a 90s baby and kid from California and we did majority of these. Except the flower/ butter thing and the eraser thing. We did play with erasers and draw/write on them.
I was told when I was a child that drinking coffee would stunt your growth! That you would never grow tall if you drank coffee! 🤣
Funny thing was, I never liked coffee growing up but I LOVED coffee ice cream.... and then when I got older, I started liking the taste of coffee (with milk/cream and lots of sugar haha). But no wonder I am on the shorter side of my family's height.... haha I ate coffee ice cream all the time!
Nimeariel, Mmm, maybe there IS some truth to this after all? 🤣
My mom told me eating straight sugar would give me worms. I told my son that drinking his milk would put hair on his chest. When he was a toddler, he kept looking for his chest hair (to be like dad).
I still believe that
Ha, I avoided coffee for that reason and now I'm only 5ft tall.
In North Carolina, we also thought beanie babies would be worth a lot, we did the butter flower under the chin, we were also scared to say Bloody Mary in the bathroom 3 times, and I had pride in how well I could make the paper fortune cookie.
When I was in Elementary school way back in the late 1960s early 1970s Butterfly Duncan Yoyos were all the rage as were Skip-Bo.
Also do you have (get) a skift of snow. Came from my Mom. She had mostly
Irish and German blood.
I grew up with those also. Loved my skip bo so much. I wore the ball down to a tube.
Did you also play the card game Skip~Bo
Janice Winsor I realized later that the device I was talking about was actually called Skip-It not Skip-Bo mine had a yellow ring that my foot went through the plastic cord was also yellow and my bell on the end was a Kelly green. The bells all had jingle bells inside,we must have driven the playground monitors nuts
I remember seeing that toy on TV
We totally did the buttercup thing in the 1990s in New England. also the Bloody Mary thing freaked me out and I didn’t mess with it. Loved cats cradle, the mash stuff and the paper predictors.
We had most of these things in the US, too. It’s fascinating how these things transcended OCEANS and generations.
Also, does anyone remember that fancy “S” everyone would draw?
Yes! The one that’s pointy on top and bottom?! Lol
Yes! and my son (9) just started drawing it randomly too
In CA as a child in the 70s we would do the flower butter thing and the scary one. I refused to do that one. I hate scary stuff to this day. Cats in the cradle for the finger yarn thing. Loved that!
Wow - J&L are two beautiful Legends. You get better looking everyday. And radiant joy and happiness from the inside out. Good together and good on your separate channels as well.
So very true!
I'm from El Paso Texas, I remember all these games from my childhood, we also played a game at school called "Red Rover". My brother used to hide my Ferby because it creeped him out, as I would leave it all over the house. I don't remember aliens... then again I'm 23, I had "sticky hands" that we'd throw at the wall. Growing up I had to watch out for "El Cucuy" (my mom is Mexican) and "Krampus" (my dad is German).
Who remembers ‘Miss Mary Mack’??!!
YES! My sisters played this hand clap game and another one called See ,see my baby
Yes!
Remember that. And some similar rhymes for jumping double dutch.
Omg I remember that silly song it was popular I grade school!
Vixter Te - ...”with silver buttons, buttons buttons buttons all down her back back back!”
Ty beanie babies were a American thing, too. We call them "Tie" rather than "Tee-Why".
Where did you say tie? Just curious. In Florida we say tee-why
I'd love you guys to do one with Joel's parents with UK parental sayings! Like, in the USA when parents say "I brought you into the world and I can take you out," or, "you make a better door than you do a window". What eye-roll worthy phrases did you guys grow up hearing?
Hay guys! Been a fan for a long time. Tho this is the first comment I've left. I'm from Canada, we also had the buttercup game, the cats and the cradle game, (with string,or elastics) the paper fortune tellers, and M.A.S.H game which was played on a piece of paper. Love your videos, and hope to visit britan someday. Which is why I started watching you guys. Love British humor, and you guys are funny, awesome people!
I always called the "paper thing" (that's folded up) a cootie catcher
when I was a kid my parents told me and my siblings that if we ate our peas we would fly, so we all chomped down on our peas and kept jumping off the couch trying to fly lol.
Horray for Joel & Lia!! Love you guys!❤️🌷 YES, A PART TWO WOULD BE GREAT!!
In the U.S., we gave each other "cootie shots." With our finger, we'd draw two circles on your friend's arm, and poke the center of each circle, while chanting, "circle, circle, dot, dot, now you've got your cootie shot!"
For you Brits, "Cooties" is imaginary germs you get from children of the opposite sex. So if a boy touched a girl, he gave her boy cooties, and she would need to get a cootie shot to protect from them.
We did the string thing here in West Florida and made a shape called Jacob’s Ladder. You guys should take a trip to the Florida Keys.
In Australia we had Cat's Cradle and the paper game thing. I also remember elastics and pick up sticks. I remember a kid's game where you'd hold your hand over a friend's head and count up until they put their hand under their chin, whatever number you got to was how many boyfriends or girlfriends you have! 😂
The buttercup thing was in the USA as well
This is great!! Thanks ❤
I'm 50 yrs old and STILL will not play Bloody Mary! No way! Lmao
Joel and Lia: *weird hand motions*
Comments: Cats cradle.
🤣😂lmao!!
Joel: the fate of everything depends on that rubber! 🤣😂😂🤣
Here in Washington State, I haven't heard of the rubbing squishy aliens together to make a baby...WOW!!🙄😆🤣😂
@@Judy_R yes, you're right, generation differences.☺️
My kids are about J&L's ages, we would have bought alien squishies if they'd been available 👽👽👽
I think that's because that product didn't exist in the US. It was probably something that couldn't be sold in the US if I had to guess.
@@jwb52z9 It was all part of the government alien cover up. The truth is out there.
Kimberly K hahaha. Early sex Ed?
In central Pennsylvania U.S. I did the paper future telling thing, cat's cradle and the butter cup trick that's funny.
Yes! Please do part 2, and also I'd love to see Lia's reasons for being an alien. 🤣
Btw, I grew up in America and all of these things, (except the squishy aliens making babies and the bread crust giving you curly hair), also happened where I was growing up. I'm in my mid 30s, so I'm a bit older than u both, and we didn't have the internet here either at that point, so I'm surprised how similar our experiences were!
We definitely played Cat's cradle (the string game you talked about), and the fortune game with the folded paper, the eraser game, and Mash. Did you have those magic 8 ball toys?
I taught school at a catholic school when we lived in Bangesh. 3rd grade as I remenbef. When one of the boys came to my desk and "Miss, can I have a rubber?" I almost died! 🤣
We had most of these when I was in school back in the 1980's, in America.
The bread crust curly hair thing is SO EFFING hysterical. I'm going to make this a thing in the U.S.
"If you can pour salt on a bird's tail, you can catch it." Obviously it is about proximity of your hands to the bird, but my sweet daughter told me years later that she chased birds all over the yard with a salt shaker one day. :)
Mike Dannheim I remember this! I wanted to do it so bad.
Oh gosh I had forgotten about that one. I've heard that too.
Bloody Mary was very popular when I grew up in Mississippi
i remember having the string thing and the paper thing back in the 70's over here
Ooo.. I forgot this one... This is just for East coasters. "Man Hunt". And smashing people's pumpkins in the streets after Halloween. I brought man Hunt to CO and everybody that played loved it.
I'm old enough to be your grannies, and I remember the buttercup (although my children don't know that), we did the fortune-teller paper, we played MASH, we believed in Bloody Mary, and we played Cat's Cradle all the time. This is back in the 60's. Being from Florida, I never would have believed the pee story. I knew people who peed in the pools all the time! Although Daddy told me the ocean was salty because of people peeing in it. Did you guys have Cootie shots? You'd go "Dot, Dot, Circle, Cross, now you've had your cootie shot." Poking people for the dot and drawing the circle and cross with your finger on someone's back or arm. That way we didn't get cooties from the boys (or they didn't get them from us girls).
That was proper nostalgic - I literally remember doing every single one of these 😂
Wisconsin here, instead of butter cups we used the yellow dandelions to use the same way. Do you like butter?
Same in Kansas and Missouri with dandelion! :-)
Used dandelions in Chicago in the 50's. But we rubbed the dandelion under the chin, didn't just hold it there. So of course the yellow would rub off proving the process was true.
@@alandunstan5485 hahaha Now that you say it we rubbed them under our chins as well. I had forgotten that part.
Same in MN!!..
on the east coast we used buttercups, are there not buttercups in wisconsin etc?
I went to school in 1960s in New Zealand and we did the buttercup under the chin thing then too!
I am from Hong Kong. My grandma told me that if I leave any rice in the bowl, my future wife will have bumps on her face, just like the bowl.
Beanie Babies were totally a thing in Virginia and we all believed they would eventually be worth a ton! We also did the butter cups! I knew people who did bloody Mary but none of my friends.
Yeah!! We did the paper thing!! It was fun! One of my friends told me that if I stared in the mirror long enough in a dimly lit room, I would see ghosts! Haha, I tried it multiple times and it never worked!
hahaha damn! So funny how we really believed it as kids!
I grew up in Delaware in the US- my mom collected beanie babies, we played MASH, cats cradle string game, the paper finger game, checked to see if we liked butter with the buttercup and also heard about the Bloody Mary in the mirror.
What a walk down memory lane! We did most of these in Canada in the 70's. We used dandelions instead though because we didn't have buttercups in a field. It was to tell if someone had a crush on you. One I was always told was that if you watch TV for more than 4 hours you would go deaf. Another lie/urban myth was that Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials died from eating pop rock and then drinking Coke and his stomach exploded.
I’m in my 20’s and also grew up in the age of no internet, so it too baffles me how these things happened up and down the country.
I’m from Birmingham and would do swim meets up and down the country and I used to be so amazed that kids from all over knew the same games / things.
I wanna know what Joel's mum said to him when she caught him eating biscuits in the dark utility room!
As a kid growing up in1950s Yorkshire, we had many of these stories:-
Eating dandelions makes you pee.
Eating bread crust makes your hair curl.
Eating sugar will give you worms.
If a bird poops on you, it’s lucky.
If you tread on a line, you will marry a swine, and a beetle will come to your wedding.
See a pin and pick it up. All the day you will have good luck.
But then I discovered one of my own: Pouring the contents of a firework into teacher’s pipe tobacco pouch, results in severe hand pain.
I remember so many and do you remember standing on the beetle will make it rain?
We just used yarn for those string games
Bloody Mary and the paper question game We definitely had. My husband who is from Georgia, calls The paper thing a dreamcatcher. Which I never called it that because we actually had dream catchers like native American artistic items that were called dreamcatcher where I grew up in Arizona. And mash was definitely a thing. It was a combination of numbers and shapes you had to draw and you had to do it with a friend and it would tell you who you were going to marry What kind of house you were going to live in and how many kids you had. And I definitely remember the string thing but I don't remember what we called it
I think this was just my dad but, he had me believing that once I turned 18, it would be my responsibility to take care of him and mum and the house and everything (!) He thought this was hilarious, as a child I was very pressured with the thoughts of how I would be able to manage 😂😂🤣😂
Omg! You brought me back to my childhood...with a lot of the things you brought up especially the buttercup!
My mum told me if i ate any seeds from the fruits they would grow in my stomach
I'm in North Carolina the only one I haven't heard of were the aliens producing a baby, hahaha these are all so funny, those were the good ole days
Every heard of circle, circle, dot, dot now you got a cootie shot.
Yes, taught that to my daughter a few weeks ago actually when she and her friend were worried about coodies from boys. I told them they are immune now.
I really enjoyed this video! It’s fun to recall childhood memories that have been long forgotten. Looking forward to more of these.
This is so cute! It's called "cat's cradle" I think. So much fun! Loved it. Thanks! L&C 👍♥️😘🇬🇧
Oh yes!!! That's the one!
I remember"cat-eyes" because you can make one, up to seven eyes. (This is separate from the one where you play with another person and make other configurations....)
Why do I want to call that Jacob's Ladder? So we definitely did it all the time. !
@@Jack_Stafford Dana says- Jacob's Ladder was a specific pattern you could make, but not what they called the string game itself. Another pattern was called the Cup and Saucer.
@@thomasrichards6245 I remember there was a book by the company called Klutz (I think they're still in existence) that had different string patterns in it. And it came with a multicolored string to play with! And then they came out with a "string patterns around the world" book which had even MORE patterns in it!! Some of them I memorized and some of them I'd have to look at the steps, but it was SO much fun to see how fast I could make the memorized ones! And then I would play "cat's cradle" with my friends all the time, too! But, unfortunately no one today knows the game. What has happened to society?? :-(
The buttercup thing seems to be everywhere those little flowers grow. I'm in the US and we did the "do you like butter" back in the 80s. We also used to dare each other about the Bloody Mary thing as well. MASH and the fortune teller things were a big deal when I was in elementary (primary) school. We grew up with the myths "don't make a funny face because if you do and someone slap you on the back your face will stay that way", "someone fluhed a baby aligator and now there are aligators in the NYC sewers, and they can come back up thru the toilets, so check before you sit", and there were tons of stories about Cropsey .. a man with a hook for a hand that stalked sleep away camps (NYC/Hudson Valley area) and killed children who were wandering alone at night. As a kid I flat out reused to go camping. I was petrified to evensleep in a tent in my friend's back yard, even with the tent flush against the back door.
So what do you call it when you remove writing from paper?
We call it erase, hence the name eraser.
Your eraser is made out of.....rubber and you rub out your mistakes, hence rubber.
@@simonpowell2559 THAT explains it!
Simon Powell lol wow that's cool, I thought it was because it was made out of rubber. 😆
We "rub it out" & it's made of rubber.
We use erase too but above is why it's called a rubber 😊
Macca 1975 Rub it out means something dirty in the US
Great video Joel and Lia!!! 😊👍 The rubber game, the paper game and the string game I played in school in Australia!!!
I believe the string thing is called “ cat’s cradle”.
Depends on the formation. Some patterns are cat's cradle, some Jacob's Ladder, and I seem to remember a kitty's whiskers as well.
Several of these things were the same for me growing up in Wisconsin in the US. We did the buttercup thing, but with dandelions 😂
Summary: Joel is into dungeon play.
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One of my roommates from college was an exchange student in the UK. As an American, he was taken aback the first time he was asked by a classmate to "borrow a rubber."
Re: the "grow hair on your chest", here in Texas over time I've heard various male adults use the phrase, "better eat that (whatever it is, usually a vegetable presumably), it'll put hair on your chest." It's only now I've thought about what a strange motivation tool that is to eat something! Hahahahaha Like, why do I want hair on my chest?!
LOL! I'm a retired teacher. I banned spinners & told my students they already had
free ones. I held up my thumbs & began to twiddle them!!!
The paper fortune tellers were called cootie catchers when I was in school long before either of you were even born. Cat’s cradle was the string game done with your hands and fingers. Forgot to say I lived in Connecticut for my Elementary School years.
They called them that in the 90s in my part of Maryland too!
I remember them as fortune tellers and I'm from the US
Cootie catchers in the central plains as well!
Cat’s cradle has been around for hundreds of years.
in the US (Oklahoma) we had a similar thing about the buttercup, but we used dandelions, cant remember what it was supposed to mean.
6:10 even though I know that "rubber" means eraser for yall, I still immediately thought of our word. 😂
7:50 we called those fortune tellers, I had a teacher who said they were called "cootie catchers"
8:20 You are describing a "cat's cradle" lol
and yes we also heard the pool dye lie.