Facebook is not completely useless, folks. See some fun pictures my Facebook friends are posting.
This is the best I’ve seen for a while:
For my fellow Canadians from David Gendron (sorry, David, I just had to take it:
And this brings such memories!
I was not very good, but still. . . Is there an English name for this game?
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The elastic game is called French skipping in English. I used to do it to, and wasn’t very good either. The elastic had to go up the legs if I remember and it got very tricky once above the knee.
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We had the most difficult stage of the game when the elastic went as high as the waist. 🙂
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Sorry, could not resist – David is federalist now? 🙂 🙂 Or did he mean something else? 🙂 🙂
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I think he meant to be critical of such people.
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Exactly.
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We used to call the game “Chinese Jumprope.” I loved it!
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We called it “Chinese jumprope” too…
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So, it’s either Chinese or French? This is fascinating.
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It looks similar to something called “cat’s cradle”
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No problem with that, this is funny.
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We just called it elastics at my school in the UK. I loved it!
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Beautiful memories, eh?
Do kids play this any more?
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We called it Chinese jump rope too! It was good fun.
I also must (sarcastically) ask that flag-waver: Where do Indigenous Canadians who are offended by that flag get to go? 🙂
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