I’d work on correcting that and learning it the right way around if you want to do it with other people in the future LOL
We learned that back in 6th grade! Man, I should relearn it. It’s awesome to pass the time, and even more awesome when there is a huge group playing all together.
I gotta learn that. My camp kids will love it!
I could do the cup thing in my youth, but it’s been a while since I tried.
Those of you who weren’t raised fundamentalist might not know that a Christian pop band recorded a song called “Screen Door on a Submarine” which was accompanied only by band members doing the Cup Thing while they sang. Pretty impressive to watch on stage, I can tell you.
I totally don’t understand Cup Thing. I just, er, I, uh, do you do it for the sound or…I…I don’t get it! I’m going to cry because I’m confused :(.
The cup thing is the sort of thing you do at camp… like the elbows on the table song* and stella ella ola.
It’s quick, it’s distracting and usually passes the time before the food is ready to eat (if you don’t have a distraction when the food is running late you end up with kids banging their utensils on the table and chanting ‘we want food’)
Also when you get a group of people, and you’re passing the cups around the table it’s amusing when mistakes happen.
[sub]*It goes “chanting [Name], [Name] strong and able get your elbows off the table. This is not a horses stable. singing Round the table you must go you must go you must go round the table you must go…” and I forget the last line. This one got banned sometimes because people weren’t eating just either running around the table or singing.[/sub]
Didn’t watch the video - but my cousins taught us the cup game, which I think they picked up at camp, so I am sure it is the same thing. Speed is the key!
Oh, and there’s another great game my cousins and I played, that I’m sure I’ve mentioned in the threads on stupid stuff we did as a kid. Take an apple - take a fork. Stick the fork in the apple. Toss the apple, fork still in it, across the table to another person, who has to catch it on his fork - and then toss it and both forks to another person - and on, and on. Yes - throw your fork at me!
Susan
Opal, I’ve now learned it the right way, passing it to the right - and I can’t stop! And I’m going to teach it to a friend tonight!
susan_foster, the phrase “all fun and games til someone loses an eye” comes to mind. 
I have never seen nor heard of such a thing in my entire life. Plus, I was an alcoholic for ten years, and I thought I knew every drinking game or variation thereof ever invented or used.
You are all mad as a box of frogs. 
Clap! Clap! 1-2-3 Clap! move your cup Clap! grab smack kathunk thud thud thud
LOVE that game. I was 19 or so the first time I saw it played (At an outdoor concert called ‘That Damn Show’) and I’ve been addicted to it ever since.
Sometimes in large groups, sometimes with a couple of people at a coffee shop.
Never again with porcilean mugs though. Ouch.
I finally learned it. My brother and sister and I did it on the kitchen floor. My dad comes downstairs, and he says, “What do you think you’re doing, making so much noise at 10:45?!” And I reply, “We’re doing something.” And my dad just says, “Oh,” and leaves us alone.
The appeal is hard to explain until you’ve actually done it. And even then it’s hard to understand until you’ve done it with 10 other people in a group… there is just something almost hypnotic and fun about it… all I can say is… try it.