Is anyone else familiar with this, or was this just highly localized game that I played during childhood?
You know. If somebody farted, they had the fart touch and you had to yell “shields!” and cross your fingers lest they pass it on to you (the “booger touch” also existed)? You know what I’m talking about, right? I want to be able to make references to it and have them recognized, but I fear this might have just been a county-wide thing.
crap! I thought this was MPSIMS
Everybody in your county yells out “Fart touch”?
Damn! That’s impressive when you can be heard county-wide. Best I could ever do was the other side of the playground.
Did they cover their holes when they farted?
No they didn’t!!
Speaking of weird stuff like that, I’m here to tell you that in the late 70s, there was a group of kids in SE Georgia who cupped their right hands and hooked them overhand at the person who just got cut down, and said, “Fish!”
I have no idea what this is from. I was in 4th grade, new to town, and rolling with the crowd. It’s one of the great mysteries.
Well, hell. I thought I was opening some weird new sci-fi spaceship thread that would be all about new shielding to protect the travelers not only from enemies on the outside, but from their own people inside.
Nope, never heard of such a thing.
That’s, uh, quite a game you played there. Maybe we could play it here?
SHIELDS!
…just in case 
When I was a kid, if somebody farted you would call “Doorknob!”
This entitled you to slug them repeatedly in the shoulder until they touched a doorknob.
HOWEVER, if you cut one and called “Safety!” before anyone called doorknob, you had immunity.
Although I’m glad this one died off when we graduated to 6th grade, Mommy and I still enjoy playing “Slugbug” and “Bruiser Cruiser” while driving around.
Good times.
When I was a kid, if someone farted (who am I kidding? We were school age boys…WHEN someone farted…), the last person to put their thumb to their forehead (like this) was considered to have “eaten the fart” and would be subjected to endless scorn and ridicule until someone else farted.
Hell, my friends and I still do this at the monthly card game and we’re 34+…
You’re never too old to be silly!
We had “Gas Van!”.
When we saw a van from the gas company the first person to say ‘Gas Van’ was entitled to hit the shoulder of all others present.