I thought that game was the one where you splay your hand out flat with fingers spread on the tabletop and as fast as you can stab the table between your digits, working your way around your hand and back? (without pulling a Rino).
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We called it "mumblety peg." There was also a variant called "stretch."
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We called it "mumblety peg." There was also a variant called "stretch."
Not a good genre of games for me. While watching the video, I imagined some of the different ways it could go horribly badly for me.
The*knife game, pinfinger, nerve, bishop, stabscotch, or five finger fillet (FFF), is a*game*wherein, placing the palm of one's hand down on a table with*fingers*apart, using aknife, or sharp object, one attempts to*stab*back and forth*between*one's*fingers, moving the object back and forth, trying to not hit ...
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But I vividly remember my bud, Eric, who stabbed himself in the left thigh with his own knife. It needed stitches at a minimum.
But he put a band aid on it and sewed a patch on his jeans and we just let it go at that.
He survived.
I find that hard to believe.
... We just wore boots instead of our usually 'tenny-runners'. Guess how we figured that out? ...
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