# The girl in my bed and I pumped three times when all was said and done.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 28, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132 "2003-08-28T04:41:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/81 "2003-08-31T01:15:34Z")
Three pumps, then go.
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### Author:  [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/82 "2003-08-31T01:20:40Z")
in singapore it’s scissors paper stone. everyone i know does it on ‘stone’.
i don’t understand the confusion. if you’re going to do something on the count of 3 you do it _on_ 3. why would people count to four or ‘go’? (or worse, get the timing wrong on a nonverbal ‘4’)
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/83 "2003-08-31T19:24:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \*
> \*\*As a regular Rock Paper Scissors player I have to say that the standard playing of RPS means one two go (aka go _on_ three).
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> I role play you see and RPS is used for any conflict to see whether you win or lose (basically, also based somewhat on abilities depending on ties and if you are exceptionally strong the bomb comes into play). In a crowd of about 60 some players this is how we **all** play. \*\*
As a veteran of many Vampire, Changling and Werewolf LARPs, I gotta disagree.
Ours was always one, two, three, sign.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/84 "2003-08-31T20:54:40Z")
On “The Fairly Oddparents” this morning, they had 2 games of RPS. **BOTH** times they pumped 3 times and shot, so the correct answer must be four. And as **Fern Forest** said, TV can’t be wrong.
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/85 "2003-08-31T21:44:13Z")
One, Two, Go
Rock, Paper, Scissors
BTW, you guys who use dynamite must be some kind of radical splinter group. :scary:
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### Author:  [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/86 "2003-09-01T01:02:31Z")
Quite obviously, it’s 1…2…and GO on 3.
As others have stated so eloquently, the three pumps of the fist give the game so much symmetry.
Someone famous, important, and knowledgable about such things once said that “Reauchambeaux is a waltz.”
A waltz goes in counts of threes. The whole 1…2…3…GO apostates believe in making the whole thing a four-count march. Quite uncivilized, no?
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### Author:  [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/87 "2003-09-01T04:11:51Z")
“After the tiger hollers and you let him go”
Well, it wasn’t a tiger when I learned it. Back on topic: one, two, THREE. Of course.
- PW
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### Author:  [@mrsam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsam)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/88 "2003-09-01T05:07:44Z")
[I think I have the definitive work on this issue.](http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/sms/review/R29818.html)
Yep, on the Sega game **Alex the Kid** it was two pumps. Are you suggesting that Sega could have possibly got their painstaking research into the issue wrong?
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### Author:  [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/89 "2003-09-01T05:51:38Z")
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! Three pumps, no question. I agree, two pumping is unquestionably morally bankrupt.
**Palewriter** , I’m just about darned sure that you can just keep that particular data point to yourself.
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dawne \*
> \*\*Why not ‘once - twice - _thrice_?’ I like the word thrice. \*\*
It’s a word, but so is interuterine. That doesn’t mean that you use them in a chant.
(Points to anyone who gets that one.)
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### Author:  [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/90 "2003-09-01T05:57:50Z")
It was always Ro Sham BO! and you throw on the BO!
Just like Gawi Bawi Bo, the ancient Oriental tradition, and Jan ken pon, the other ancient Oriental tradition. And Rochambeau has to be an ancient French tradition, so it’s universal, see?
Anyway, the name of the game is Scissors Paper Rock, do you guys realize you all have it backwards. Just pronounce it, you will hear the emphasis is on the Rock, and that’s another proof that it’s two pumps and Go.
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### Author:  [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/91 "2003-09-01T06:29:18Z")
Y’all drink too much.
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### Author:  [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/92 "2003-09-01T06:32:18Z")
Lushes.
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### Author:  [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/93 "2003-09-01T07:47:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by \*\*MaryEFoo \*\*
> … It was always Ro Sham BO! and you throw on the BO!
>
> Just like Gawi Bawi Bo, the ancient Oriental tradition, and Jan ken pon, the other ancient Oriental tradition. And Rochambeau has to be an ancient French tradition, so it’s universal, see?
>
> Anyway, the name of the game is Scissors Paper Rock, do you guys realize you all have it backwards. Just pronounce it, you will hear the emphasis is on the Rock, and that’s another proof that it’s two pumps and Go.
and in chinese it’s shi2tou2 jian3dao1 BU4! (pardon my pinyin) or literally stone scissors cloth. notice how they’re switch around so that the single syllable word is on 3? in what order is gawi bawi bo, jan ken pon or rochambeau?
scissors paper STONE!
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/94 "2003-09-01T08:14:48Z")
Three pumps. Kind of like a holy trinity.
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/95 "2003-09-01T12:21:24Z")
One, Two, Go.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/96 "2003-09-02T00:22:56Z")
What is meant by this page having a Google rank of two? I entered “rock paper scissors” into Google, and I don’t see it.
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### Author:  [@Fredge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredge)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/97 "2003-09-02T01:38:24Z")
There’s important decisions on the line. Think of all the wasted time accumulated throughout the ages by those who think it’s 1-2-3-throw.
Clearly 1-2-throw gets everyone moving on to what’s really important like who’s buying the next round or who gets sloppy seconds.
Heck, I think we could even shorten it more in the interest of saving time. In the immortal words of Andrew Dice Clay…
\*\* “One stroke, DONE!”\*\*
Of course the Diceman wasn’t talking about Rock-Paper-Scissors but that’s not important here.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/98 "2003-09-04T07:10:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \*
> \*\*As a veteran of many Vampire, Changling and Werewolf LARPs, I gotta disagree.
>
> Ours was always one, two, three, sign. \*\*
Well we’ll have to agree to disagree… in my group it’s been 1, 2, go for as long as I’ve played. I don’t remember any time before that because _before_ I started playing Vampire I hadn’t played RPS in years. In fact I seem to recall as we prefered Bubble gum Bubble gum as we usually had more than 2 people.
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### Author:  [@sycorob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sycorob)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/99 "2003-09-04T15:14:07Z")
Oh, this is great. My GF and I argued about this a while back - she was a 2-pumper, I was a 3-pumper. Since I’m a whiny little brat, we agreed on 3 pumps, then go.
I’m loving the double-entendres.
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**Standup Karmic** , I’ve had many conversations exactly like the OP. We actually solve many (completely meaningless) disputes with either RPS, or what we call “the coin gods.”
Me: You feel like going out?
Her: I could go either way. You?
Me: I’m kinda sleepy, but I kinda wanna go out too.
Her: Coin gods!
Then we flip a coin to see what we’re going to do. The will of the coin gods cannot be disputed. Ever.
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### Author:  [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-in-my-bed-and-i-pumped-three-times-when-all-was-said-and-done/198132/100 "2003-09-04T18:15:15Z")
Two pumps , GO!
All you three-pumpers are just useless paper pushing bureacrats, waisting valuable time and obstructing the path of us rising, dynamic, progressive two-pumpers.
By the way, I never heard of the Dynamite version. Sounds very interesting.
Actually , I remember an excercise in game-theory which covered the same basic principle. It went something like this:
You have to defend 3 cities A, B and C, from a missile attack.
Your enemy has 10 missiles.
You can only choose to defend 1 city at a time, (per missile attack).
Each successfull attack costs you the following:
City A , 1 million dollars in losses
City B, 2 million dollars in losses
City C, 3 million dollars in losses
what pattern of defense do you choose ?
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