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ReneePhillips10 · 11-03-2006, 09:20 AM

Iam taking you guys back to the school days! Do you remember those paper fortunes we used to make? here is an online pic: http://www.barelythere.com/default.asp Who can tell me what these were called? I will take any answer as it seems it had different names regionally.

ngdawg · 11-03-2006, 11:23 AM

Hmm...I don't recall a name for them, but my daughter, who's 14, might know-they were still doing those when she was in jr. high.

snowy · 11-03-2006, 12:50 PM

I don't remember a name for them either.

I do remember that I loved to play that game called MASH--MASH standing for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_%28game%29

The wikipedia entry also includes a link to play MASH online!

Mrs Master · 11-03-2006, 09:13 PM

I loved that game, we called it a chatterbox.

la petite moi · 11-03-2006, 10:52 PM

We called it the Jabberwocky when I was elementary school.

Grasshopper Green · 11-04-2006, 03:48 PM

SWEET! A vacation home is in my future!

I think we just called it a fortune teller. We used to make them all the time

snowy...I loved MASH too. I haven't thought of these games in years!

amonkie · 11-04-2006, 04:59 PM

Jabberwocky was our name as well .. I remember making horribly complicated mash games.

one of them said I was getting married August 15, 2007. Hee hee.

Spiffgirl · 11-05-2006, 02:05 PM

"Cootie catcher" is what I remember...sounds kinda icky :-)

Pip · 11-05-2006, 02:07 PM

Nostalgia!

We called it a "loppfångare", a flea catcher. Don't know why.

The MASH game was interesting, it hadn't reached Sweden when I was a kid at least. I (and most girls in my school) loved fortune-telling games, we used to tell each other's fortunes with the weirdest card games. The simplest was one person asking another person yes- or no-questions, the other person would turn over a card from a deck. If the card was red the answer was yes and if black no.

Fortune telling is a guilty pleasure of mine. I absolutely do not believe in it, I'm familiar with most of the tricks involved, but I still get a thrill from having my fortune told.

11-03-2006, 09:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
ReneePhillips10 Upright	Good Ol' Days! Iam taking you guys back to the school days! Do you remember those paper fortunes we used to make? here is an online pic: http://www.barelythere.com/default.asp Who can tell me what these were called? I will take any answer as it seems it had different names regionally.

11-03-2006, 11:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	Hmm...I don't recall a name for them, but my daughter, who's 14, might know-they were still doing those when she was in jr. high. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

11-03-2006, 12:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	I don't remember a name for them either. I do remember that I loved to play that game called MASH--MASH standing for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_%28game%29 The wikipedia entry also includes a link to play MASH online! __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

11-04-2006, 03:48 PM	#6 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	SWEET! A vacation home is in my future! I think we just called it a fortune teller. We used to make them all the time snowy...I loved MASH too. I haven't thought of these games in years! __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa

11-04-2006, 04:59 PM	#7 (permalink)
amonkie Drifting Administrator Location: Windy City	Jabberwocky was our name as well .. I remember making horribly complicated mash games. one of them said I was getting married August 15, 2007. Hee hee. __________________ Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

11-03-2006, 09:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mrs Master Tilted	I loved that game, we called it a chatterbox.

11-03-2006, 10:52 PM	#5 (permalink)
la petite moi Filling the Void. Location: California	We called it the Jabberwocky when I was elementary school.

11-05-2006, 02:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
Spiffgirl Upright Location: I come from spase, no I don't come from here. I am a spase people. I am from a different planet	"Cootie catcher" is what I remember...sounds kinda icky :-)

11-05-2006, 02:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
Pip Likes Hats Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Nostalgia! We called it a "loppfångare", a flea catcher. Don't know why. The MASH game was interesting, it hadn't reached Sweden when I was a kid at least. I (and most girls in my school) loved fortune-telling games, we used to tell each other's fortunes with the weirdest card games. The simplest was one person asking another person yes- or no-questions, the other person would turn over a card from a deck. If the card was red the answer was yes and if black no. Fortune telling is a guilty pleasure of mine. I absolutely do not believe in it, I'm familiar with most of the tricks involved, but I still get a thrill from having my fortune told.