# "Can't breathe! Can't breathe!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-breathe-cant-breathe/487220 "2009-02-24T17:03:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-breathe-cant-breathe/487220/21 "2009-02-25T16:34:33Z")
> [@Taipan](#): > > Yeah I used to say “I can’t breathe” all the time when my older brother was crushing me in some wrestling move. His reply was always the same: “If you can say that, then you can still breathe”. Exactly. This is why my brothers and I would more often play dead in order to get their opponent to worry they’d killed us. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-breathe-cant-breathe/487220/22 "2009-02-25T16:38:01Z")
My little brother and I did that. We knew that we were still capable of breathing, but it really meant that that person was not having fun anymore, and if you didn’t stop soon mom would be told you were playing too rough. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-breathe-cant-breathe/487220/23 "2009-02-25T19:51:58Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > Safe word?! Wish I’d had one of those when my brother pinned my arms and tickled me until I peed. I guess you could call it a “safe bodily function,” but safe word? “I’m gonna pee!!” was what we screamed, and that usually ended it, because Mom would make the offender clean it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-breathe-cant-breathe/487220.md?page=1)