I remember a game, in the fifties, called ‘cootie’ that started out with a body and per your dice rolls , you added six legs , the head, antennae, and a smeller thingie
or am I so old that I saw real cooties and that’s how I remember them?
We had the old Cootie game when I was a kid, though the Cooties didn’t look as friendly as the ones on that Amazon link.
Here’s what we had::
The box looks exactly as I remember. It says “An exciting educational game for all ages”, though I don’t remember it being either exciting or educational, and only little kids played it.
Sweet Mother of God, kids don’t make cootie catchers anymore?!? What’s to stop the uncaught cooties from overrunning our schools and playgrounds? Our entire way of life is being threatened, and the government does NOTHING!
Fritzoid: Half the politicians want the EPA to hire extra janitors to clean the schools of cooties. The other half wants to give parents vouchers to have their kids de-cootified by the private cootie exterminator of their choice.
And of course everything gets blocked in the Senate.
My daughters went through a “cootie catcher” phase for a while where they made dozens of different ones with various purposes – as in “which character are you” versions where you selected likes. Now this is on Facebook, but still…
Everyone who is anyone in fifth grade is making “fortune-tellers” right now and a few of the more venturesome souls are using them for a sort of truth or dare- after the color and the numbers have been wig-wagged out, it’s not a fortune but an I-dare-you-to rather than you-will-marry/date/love or you-will-win-the-lottery under the flap.
Hillbillyman almost 14 years ago
Innovations at it’s best… superceding the cootie catcher.
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I remember a game, in the fifties, called ‘cootie’ that started out with a body and per your dice rolls , you added six legs , the head, antennae, and a smeller thingie
or am I so old that I saw real cooties and that’s how I remember them?
jpozenel almost 14 years ago
We had the old Cootie game when I was a kid, though the Cooties didn’t look as friendly as the ones on that Amazon link.
Here’s what we had::
The box looks exactly as I remember. It says “An exciting educational game for all ages”, though I don’t remember it being either exciting or educational, and only little kids played it.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Sweet Mother of God, kids don’t make cootie catchers anymore?!? What’s to stop the uncaught cooties from overrunning our schools and playgrounds? Our entire way of life is being threatened, and the government does NOTHING!
Dirty Dragon almost 14 years ago
Fritzoid: Half the politicians want the EPA to hire extra janitors to clean the schools of cooties. The other half wants to give parents vouchers to have their kids de-cootified by the private cootie exterminator of their choice.
And of course everything gets blocked in the Senate.
yay, democracy
syke34 almost 14 years ago
All the things my day were somewhat educational too.
Ushindi almost 14 years ago
I was always taught that only girls had cooties - isn’t that right?
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
My daughters went through a “cootie catcher” phase for a while where they made dozens of different ones with various purposes – as in “which character are you” versions where you selected likes. Now this is on Facebook, but still…
Ushindi almost 14 years ago
Well, st2, at Citrus Ave. Elementary, it was the GIRLS - everybody knew that!
At least all the boys did…
r.dauphinee almost 14 years ago
Everyone who is anyone in fifth grade is making “fortune-tellers” right now and a few of the more venturesome souls are using them for a sort of truth or dare- after the color and the numbers have been wig-wagged out, it’s not a fortune but an I-dare-you-to rather than you-will-marry/date/love or you-will-win-the-lottery under the flap.