# The SDMB Playground-let's be little kids! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809 "2003-05-08T01:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/1 "2003-05-08T01:41:50Z")
Okay, we’re here at Cecil Adams Elementary. Our principal, aka **Ed Zotti** is in charge, and our teachers watch out for us little hellions. But now it’s recess! I wanna hang upside from the monkey bars! See, I’m showing off my Princess Leia Underoos! C’mon, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/2 "2003-05-08T01:53:15Z")
I’m gonna be going for the hula hoop record. Stand back people! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/3 "2003-05-08T02:03:54Z")
Ewwwwww, Guin’s got cooties! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/4 "2003-05-08T04:34:18Z")
Mmmmm… Mud pie. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/5 "2003-05-08T04:35:46Z")
Who wants to sit with me on the teeter-totter? ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/6 "2003-05-08T05:40:33Z")
I’m gonna swing so high that I will go over the bar! Let’s see who can jump from the highest swing! 1-2-3 GO! ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/7 "2003-05-08T05:46:24Z")
I’ll be the one stuck in the middle of the slide and using my hands to propel myself to the bottom. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/8 "2003-05-08T07:05:27Z")
Kickball!! Kickball! KICKBALL! Or perhaps we can go right to the fun stuff–chase the person who has the ball and get it away from them! (aka schoolyard rugby). ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/9 "2003-05-08T07:11:35Z")
I’ll be the creepy kid who reduces the rest of the kids in my tent to tears with sinister stories when we go away on trips, thanks. During normal school days, you’ll find me staring at the wall muttering stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/10 "2003-05-08T07:12:20Z")
Booger. Booger! ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/11 "2003-05-08T07:22:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*Ewwwwww, Guin’s got cooties! \*\* Please enlighten this ignorant Australian. What exactly _are_ cooties? Head lice or something? Pimples? “Boy germs”? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/12 "2003-05-08T07:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > \*\*Please enlighten this ignorant Australian. What exactly _are_ cooties? Head lice or something? Pimples? “Boy germs”? \*\* Been a wonderin’ thing for Kiwis, too. According to [this attempt at understanding:](http://nz.com/NZ/Culture/AmericanCulture.html) > [@](#): > > The term _“Cooties”_ refers to an unspecified disease, somewhat like “the dreaded lurgy” in NZ English. Its most common usage however, is to denote the “boy germs” or “girl germs” that children expect to get off each other. Given the countervailing trend on US sitcoms, to insist on an active (sexual) interest in children of the other sex from children as young as 7 or 8, belief in cooties could do with some encouragement. Oh, yeah – and I’m the fat kid who just sits in th’ corner of the playground, away from the hair-yankers, trying not to get her glasses broken _again_. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/13 "2003-05-08T08:29:00Z")
You guys don’t act like a five year old all the time? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/14 "2003-05-08T09:58:08Z")
When we’re bigger, we might. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/15 "2003-05-08T10:06:07Z")
::sits in corner, reading a good book:: ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/16 "2003-05-08T10:07:32Z")
_Perches in a tree, contentedly munching on a bag of cookies gacked from the fat kid in the corner_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/17 "2003-05-08T10:10:56Z")
Hopscotch! Hopscotch! I go first! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/18 "2003-05-08T10:25:47Z")
::Hears the word “hopscotch”. Looks around. Puts book down:: Hey, **FCM** , can I play too? ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/19 "2003-05-08T10:45:08Z")
:: swings, and swings, and swings and swings and swings swings swingsswingsswings… :: Wee, space! Oh, shit. Not space. :: splat :: ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809/20 "2003-05-08T10:57:46Z")
_hiding under the biggest, shadiest tree, with a huge hat, excessive sunblock and a bad temper_ Why do they make me come out here to get melanoma? I want to go back to the library! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-playground-lets-be-little-kids/173809.md?page=2)