A VW horn goes meep meep.
Age 48 here, never heard of this game.
I dunno what game you folks are talking about. We didn’t need a reason to have a fistfight in the backseat.
As I stated in the other Thread . . .
“Punchbuggy” scans better.
Slug Bug is a spondee. Spondees suck. Spondees are for babies.
Punchbuggy is a dactyl. Dactyls are elegant and beautiful.
Actually, here’s a direct link for the benefit of anyone who missed it. Damn eloquent explanation if there ever was one.
We would say “Slug bug [color]!”
We also played yellow car, which also counted for punches. A yellow slug bug was two punches, naturally.
Man, first I thought all I had to worry about was those VW commercials screwing with a good thing, now you’re telling me people out there call it SLUG BUG? The mind boggles.
We would say “slug-a-bug.”
Yep, I’m right there with you.
LA LA LA LA LA . . .
It’s “Slug Bug [color]”. Always and forever…
Did anyone play the game where, if you saw a car with a headlight out, you said “Perdiddle” and punched the roof of the car?
Or was it just us?
Slug bug, slug bug, slug bug.
The kids on my school bus wouldn’t have been wrong about a thing like that.
One of my brothers and I still call “Pediddle” when we see a one-eyed car. Our rule was that we had to lick a finger and touch it to the roof liner as we said it. If you didn’t lick your finger first, you were cheating and didn’t “win” even if you said it first.
I’ll bet the roofliner of my mother’s car was crawling with germs. :smack:
Punch bug, no -gy. Color always noted!
I asked the same questionback in March.
I never, ever heard of this until a thread on here. I was shocked to see the commercials–
In the classic MST3K episode “Manos: The Hands of Fate”, Joel and the bots used “Slug Bug.” Are you calling them childish?
Actually, that’s probably fairly accurate.
Growing up in Idaho in the '60s we would say Beetle [color] and attack each other with X-acto knives.
I’m really shocked that slug bug is winning, i’d never heard that term untill i read the thread title.
Umm, only 4-8yo play that game, and even they stopped decades ago. Other than some stupid fucking new ads, that is. Do you work for VW or are you just easily influenced by advertising?
We used both interchangeably. My cousin called it “punch buggy,” but I heard it on television called “slug bug.” I still think “punch buggy” sounds better, but I think “slug bug” is more accurate, as I’ve never heard a VW Beetle called a buggy. In fact, I thought it was using the old terminology for cars as those particular cars just looked old.