Crossing Your Fingers - Immunity!!

[80sChav]

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When I was living in South Essex the playground term for crossed fingers was "Fay-Nites!".
I then went to school in Herts and it became "Sqibs!"
Lastly, I ended up in Worcestershire where it became "Barley!"
My Scottish wife says in Ayrshire they said "Keys!"

Any other terms of crossed fingered immunity from the terrors of being tagged??

I never recall crossing my Fingers but recall playing Tagg well Chrisredditch

The only thing I can recall near to Crossing my Fingers was in Assembly in Primary School Crossing your Feet and woe-betide you if you did not! Crossing the Fingers is a new one (so far) to me that I'll have to try a bit further (or am aiming to) now you have mentioned it!

80sChaav

[chris]

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When we crossed fingers we always used to call it 'kings' odd but true.

Yes - it was "KINGS" round our way as well.

[havasack]

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Aye, skich in the west end of Newcastle. We also used flinch. Remember some kid came to our school from darn sarf and tried to use "pax".

[Littlelen]

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Skinjees, or Skinje in Newcastle

Yeah it was skinjies for us too trickyvee. I'm from north shields end.

[Trickyvee]

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Skinjees, or Skinje in Newcastle

[Etch-a-sketch]

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In Australia where I grew up it was 'Bar-lees'.

[Danny]

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Still on this topic of crossed fingers ( vaguely ) it was also guaranteed to me as a teenage lad as a sure-fire way of ensuring your girl didn't get pregnant....

You had both to be standing up and if you then both crossed your fingers at the 'key time' then she would be safe

Looking back at the maintenance and then child support I've had to pay out over the years I don't think it was really that effective as a means of contraception

[zip55]

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Pretty sure 'fingers crossed' was PAGS when I was a kid in Leeds.

[frame]

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I must have grew up on a different planet from you guys....
Frame...

[tulip]

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Did anyone do "bugs!" you tagged someone and shouted "bugs injection 5,10,for life,close gates for ever!!!! By closing your gates,they couldn't get you back!


tulip

[ann22]

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We used to say 'im bar!' For example if we were playing tig (some may call tag) we'd have a wall or a tree that when we touched it we were 'bar'. Some cowardly dry sh*tes would stand 2 feet from it the whole time.

[The Low Country]

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Was skinch for us

But then again, I've just posted a new thread about shinty (school sports/PE games.) I must have gone to a very strange school as a nipper.

[HG]

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Was skinch for us

[The Low Country]

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When we crossed fingers we always used to call it 'kings' odd but true.

[kazboot]

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My husband reminded me of another word we used to use - 'Peeps'.