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Carl-E:
We made a bloody apron for a show that had a butcher character.  The actor kept it afterward, and left it on a hook by his front door with a large carving knife so that, when the proselytizers came by, he could greet them in it, wielding the knife, and yelling "WHAT?  I'M BUSY!!"

LTK:
Are children's games - the ones they play on a playground or on a bus - all invented by children?

Barmymoo:
I would also love to know how it is that all children know the same ones, even though I've never seen almost any of them on television or anything.

LTK:
Every kid goes to school, and learns the games from the older kids, who in turn learned them from kids older than them, but no adult or teacher ever goes up to a kid and tells them how to play. It's just none of their business.

Tag? Hide and seek? Rope skipping too, maybe? Those games must have been around for centuries at least. Are there even cultures that don't play these games? Other than the Baining? The only reason I can think of that these games exist is that a group of kids thought them up one day while sitting around and trying to figure out what to do today.

Welu:
I've wondered about the songs we sang on the bus. Especially the ones that were based on the town or local people.

Edit: Thinking about games played in the playground, I've remembered one of the blokes in my primary school who has always been and still is quite camp. From the first day of school he only played with the girls and didn't like sports.
I remember the school got remade completely and with it, we got a load of things like jump-ropes, footballs and frisbees to play with if the teachers opened the bunkers. It seemed completely random when they would do it, not just very nice days or once a week, just when they remembered we had them.
The same thing always happened, girls were given jump-ropes and boys were given footballs. The first few times said Bloke from earlier grabbed a jump-rope and happily went off with his female friends. I remember one time, this would have been around age 8/9, they opened the bunker of toys and when he went to get a jump-rope and they told him, "No, grab a football and play with the boys." This went on for, I think, a couple of weeks. I even remember over-hearing some teachers talking about how "queer" it was he wanted to do girly games. Two teachers came out and made sure he was playing with the boys and not just hanging out, he was being made to play football or wrestle in the dirt or whatever they thought young boys did. If he went over to the girls he got told off for doing girly things.
I think after a while they noticed forcing him to hang out with the boys just led to the boys ignoring him or at worse, taking the mick out of him and Bloke was miserable and missed his friends. So the teachers just stopped coming outside or if they did, they didn't get involved.
Yes, this was a rather Catholic school.

Actually looking back on this now it'd have been nice if they put their misguided efforts into helping the children who weren't included into any playground activities at all, rather than what they were trying to do with Bloke.

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