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Elastics. Did you used to play?

lurker172602 — Sat, 02 May 2015 22:38:16 GMT

Having a discussion yesterday with friends, me (ex NZ) and two similar aged friends, (mid fifties), 1 ex Sydney, 1 ex Melbourne, all remember playing Elastics as young girls, although the Victorian didn't think that was what they called it. Two other, older, friends had no idea what we were talking about.

Did you play, and what did you call it?

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 02 May 2015 22:43:11 GMT

In Sydney we called it elastics. Obvious choice for a name I would have thought lol!

Kids haven't played for a few decades now. They tried to bring them back into the shops about 10 years ago and it was a failure. I bought some for my then 12 year old niece but she didn't know about them.

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bluecat*dancing — Sat, 02 May 2015 23:52:21 GMT

I'm from Victoria and we called it elastics.

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zanadoo_56 — Sun, 03 May 2015 00:44:36 GMT

@bluecat*dancing wrote:
I'm from Victoria and we called it elastics.

I grew up in Canberra - it was called elastics there too. Lots of fun and some good exercise too.

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j*oono — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:06:08 GMT

I grew up in England and it was called French skipping. Not sure why.

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:08:24 GMT

Yes, I played..Lots of fun!

Some girls were very competitive and used to practice every day..I remember walking into a classroom and these 2 girls had even looped the ends of the elastic between the door handle and the window sill to practice during detention! lol

PS edited to add from Sydney, we called it elastics..

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:09:40 GMT

Ooh j*oono posh!!

lol

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j*oono — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:16:21 GMT

We must have had a thing about France. French knitting was popular at that time too.

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lind9650 — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:28:17 GMT

What on earth are elastics besides the ones you have in your knickers waistbands?

Erica

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imastawka — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:28:56 GMT

Older gen. here. We did someting a bit more dangerous, until the nuns

put a stop to it. Like this - with long sticks and boy, did it hurt!

Don't remember what we called it.

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lloydslights — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:29:25 GMT

My younger sister was a Chinese Elastics champ at primary, (also marbles, knuckles)

Being a couple of years older, at the same primary school, I used to participate in Dutch skipping - a long pair of ropes previously provided by a local market gardener who had used them for tying the cauliflowers down on his truck.

A team of about 10 girls, running individually into the turning ropes and exiting before the next girl entered.

E-n-e-r-g-y.

DEB

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imastawka — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:32:51 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
What on earth are elastics besides the ones you have in your knickers waistbands?

Erica

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j*oono — Sun, 03 May 2015 01:38:59 GMT

We must have been a lot fitter pre computers and video games.

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serendipityricho — Sun, 03 May 2015 02:42:55 GMT

Not sure about that game with elastics

But in my younger days -have pulled the back of bra straps

back about 200mm -let go and---started running ..>>>>>>>..Richo.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:02:36 GMT

I grew up in Adelaide and we played elastics.

Who remembers these? Click clacks!

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debra9275 — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:31:07 GMT

oddly enough, we used to call it "Chinese Skippy"... no idea why.

interesting that you called it French Skippy Joono. "French knitting"i remember too

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lurker172602 — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:45:54 GMT

I had a quick look at wiki after I posted the OP and it appears chinese ropes, jumpsies, elastics, yoki and french skipping all work.

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cezm — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:46:05 GMT

I still have mine - from the 70s!

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cezm — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:47:17 GMT

We called it elastics - in the 70s - in Fiji.

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cherry*135 — Sun, 03 May 2015 03:52:16 GMT

@j*oono wrote:
We must have had a thing about France. French knitting was popular at that time too.

Knitting on spools? We called that rat's tails.

We played elastics also.

Used to put them on chair legs to practice by yourself.