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Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month

mayomick 01 Feb 25 - 01:14 PM
GUEST,.gargoyle 02 Feb 25 - 02:17 AM
mayomick 02 Feb 25 - 07:42 AM
Mrrzy 07 Feb 25 - 02:24 PM
RTim 07 Feb 25 - 05:00 PM
Black belt caterpillar wrestler 08 Feb 25 - 06:06 AM
JennieG 08 Feb 25 - 06:15 AM
mayomick 09 Feb 25 - 12:17 PM
Long Firm Freddie 11 Feb 25 - 01:41 PM
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Subject: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: mayomick
Date: 01 Feb 25 - 01:14 PM

anyone remember pinch punch- is pinching and punching still done in school playgrounds on the first day of the month ?


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 02:17 AM

It was done on St Patricks Day - if you did not wear green. cira 1960 western USA.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Lots of kid stuff at that time, "titty whistle," and "indian burn" and "monkey bumps" and "boe weeps" and "LSMFT" ... we were all juvenile delinquents."


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: mayomick
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 07:42 AM

so maybe pinch- punch is an Irish thing. We played it in school in England around the same time -in the late fifties and early sixties when over the half the class in Catholic schools were second generation Irish. Nudcat Anglophiles maybe didn't play such crude games ! We also had the monkey bumps but our burns were Chinese , not Indian .And we were all delinquents as well but not delinquent enough for the titty whizzle or "LSMFT"-whatever tf they were!


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 02:24 PM

Rabbit, rabbit was a first day of the month thing...


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: RTim
Date: 07 Feb 25 - 05:00 PM

A very common saying in England at the beginning of every month...Certainly in my part of Hampshire when I was growing up....But you could Only say it to someone Before 12 noon, and some say if you say "White Rabbits" as your first words on a new Month...then you should be Immune...!!

Tim Radford


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 06:06 AM

"Pinch punch, first of the month and no returns" was the phrase in Somerset in 1960s. The last bit meant they couldn't do it back to you.

Robin


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: JennieG
Date: 08 Feb 25 - 06:15 AM

It was alive and well in New South Wales, Oz, in the late 1950s-early 1960s.

I can't answer for more modern times.


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: mayomick
Date: 09 Feb 25 - 12:17 PM

I remember they used to spoil the April Fool tricks by saying that they were invalid after 12 noon. But I doubt if there's anything like immunity from pinch punch if it got as far as Oz - aboard HMS Canberra, presumably, assisted passage ?


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Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 11 Feb 25 - 01:41 PM

The answer to "No returns" was "A smack in the eye for being so sly".

LFF


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