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01 Feb 25 - 01:14 PM (#4216427) Subject: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: mayomick anyone remember pinch punch- is pinching and punching still done in school playgrounds on the first day of the month ? |
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02 Feb 25 - 02:17 AM (#4216454) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: GUEST,.gargoyle 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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02 Feb 25 - 07:42 AM (#4216467) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: mayomick 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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07 Feb 25 - 02:24 PM (#4216851) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: Mrrzy Rabbit, rabbit was a first day of the month thing... |
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07 Feb 25 - 05:00 PM (#4216858) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: RTim 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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08 Feb 25 - 06:06 AM (#4216880) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler "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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08 Feb 25 - 06:15 AM (#4216881) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: JennieG 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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09 Feb 25 - 12:17 PM (#4216940) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: mayomick 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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11 Feb 25 - 01:41 PM (#4217065) Subject: RE: Folklore: Pinch Punch first day of the month From: Long Firm Freddie The answer to "No returns" was "A smack in the eye for being so sly". LFF |