your best memories/favourite things about being a kid

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:26 am

OOH! That reminded me of a game we used to play!! Well, I guess it wasn't really a game. And now that I'm older, it was pretty silly, really. I completely forgot about it. :GASP:

Anyway, we'd turn off the lights, someone would lie down flat, everyone else would get in a circle around and put their fingertips on the person around the outside of their body (like how you'd touch a Ouija thingee). One person would sit above their head and rub their temples. The lying down person would close their eyes and try to go into a "trance" (:lol: oh man this is funny to remember now). Then's when it gets REALLY silly. Everyone would concentrate on lifting the person up magically with their minds. :lol:

We played this a lot. We were so dumb. :lol:

Course, there was always that one person playing who insisted they'd succeeded to lift someone up to the ceiling... which, being young and innocent, we believed. :lol:

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/31/2004, 3:27 am

THATS FROM THE CRAFT!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:28 am

We were playing it way before the movie, though.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/31/2004, 3:28 am

Oh, i see.

I like that movie.
Its one of my best childhood memories :nod:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:29 am

Youngin. I was already 14 when that came out.

closeyoureyes · Post by **closeyoureyes** » 12/31/2004, 3:30 am

which means, i was.... 8! I think i watched it when i was 8 too, hahahah.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:32 am

[04:31] <mmm_olpness> it was called stiff as a board, light as a feather

Whoo! Thank you, Kym! :lol:

I think it was actually "Light as a feather, stiff as a board", though. Man, I forgot it had a name/chant. :lol:

My memory is SO freaking bad.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:51 am

Holy CRAP, I KNEW it had something to do with a graveyard!!!!!

GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD

First you gather up at least 3 or more people. Then you find a base. Next you choose 1 person to be the ghost. That person will stand on the base and call out 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 and keeps doing that until they get to 12:00. All other players hide while the ghost counts. On 12:00 the ghost yells out "Midnight". Then all the hiders try to run to the base before the person that is the ghost catches them. If a person gets caught they become the ghost.

I so win.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 3:53 am

Hmm... we still played it different than that, though. :lol:

The ghost had to walk through the yard... midnight just meant they were starting their walk. Everyone could jump out whenever they felt like it... but I remember it being scary to the ghost for some reason. :lol:

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/31/2004, 4:22 am

baby_dracula wrote:we played a game called cemetery where people had to lie perfectly still, with their eyes open (they were allowed to blink) and we had ghosts that movied in and out of the "bodies" trying to animate them. they'd make faces, or try and stare you out, or try talking or making silly sounds. if you moved or laughed you became a ghaost. i always won at that game.

We had that but I think it was called sleeping lions or something like that.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 12/31/2004, 9:41 am

nikki4982 wrote:
[04:31] <mmm_olpness> it was called stiff as a board, light as a feather

Whoo! Thank you, Kym!

I think it was actually "Light as a feather, stiff as a board", though. Man, I forgot it had a name/chant. My memory is SO freaking bad.

I HATED that game! and for some reason we always had to play that game at sleepovers. i refused to play! :mrgreen:

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 12/31/2004, 7:12 pm

we should all get together and play these games :nod:

i remember light as a feather, stiff as a board. most of the kids thought i was possessed and had magic powers when we were little, so i always was supposed to be at the person's head, because my magic would make it work better or something.

i always thought it was funny

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 12/31/2004, 7:14 pm

I wanna play those games too.

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 12/31/2004, 7:17 pm

baby_dracula wrote:we played a game called cemetery where people had to lie perfectly still, with their eyes open (they were allowed to blink) and we had ghosts that movied in and out of the "bodies" trying to animate them. they'd make faces, or try and stare you out, or try talking or making silly sounds. if you moved or laughed you became a ghaost. i always won at that game.

that reminds of a game we used to play called Blink Murder or something. it was always pretty cool, 'cuz people would always freak out and run away. :lol:

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 12/31/2004, 7:25 pm

I have better memories of when I was older then when I was a kid.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/31/2004, 7:27 pm

We used to play Wink Murder. But it wasn't freaky at all. You'd all get in a circle and one person would be in the middle. But first that person would leave the room and you'd decide who the murderer was. Then they'd come back and stand in the middle of the circle and the murderer would wink at people who would then drop down dead. And the person in the middle of the circle had to work out who the murderer was.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 12/31/2004, 7:55 pm

and the counterpart to that game, handshake murder, where everyone would walk around and shake hands, but instead of winking, the murderer had a different handshake from everyone else. and the detective had to find the murderer.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 12/31/2004, 10:35 pm

Everyone who wants to get together to play these games just needs to come to the next meetup. We're planning on playing. :nod:

xoNoDoubt69 wrote:
nikki4982 wrote:
[04:31] <mmm_olpness> it was called stiff as a board, light as a feather

Whoo! Thank you, Kym!

I think it was actually "Light as a feather, stiff as a board", though. Man, I forgot it had a name/chant. My memory is SO freaking bad.

I HATED that game! and for some reason we always had to play that game at sleepovers. i refused to play!

Yeah, we always played it at sleepovers. :lol:

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 1/5/2005, 5:46 pm

My entire group of friends discovered we were witches after seeing that movie.

We did "light as a feather, stiff as a board" on the tarmac at recess. :lol:

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 1/5/2005, 6:28 pm

I'm confused, did "Light as a feather, Stiff as a board" actually do anything? I remember when I was younger someone telling me that it would work as long as the person being lifted didn't movie or speak at all.