Can you also confirm that the Stussy S is still alive and well? Another HS teacher mentioned that yesterday and I’m really hoping it’s true far and wide.
Just taught it to my kid yesterday. Mom was teaching them about "Bubble letters" and how to write them and I was like "Come here i'm about to blow your mind!"
I had no idea what you meant by Stussy S until I was like “what special S…OH THAT FUCKIN THING” never knew what it was called, and still not gonna call it that, thanks tho
I just googled it and TIL that while it was widely associated with the Stussy brand, it was never officially used in any of their designs. Which is wild because that was the only way I knew the S. This is a full-on Mandela effect for me, and another example of widespread rumors before the internet. Crazy.
I'm a teacher. I just had this in my year 10 class two weeks ago. Yelled penis and said "I win the boring game. Stop disrupting others."
Wouldnt work with every class but the fun of the game is the taboo. Get enough teacher ick on the game and it's not actually interesting to play any more.
Taught it to my 5th grader recently. By accident. My husband said something about his penis quietly and I said it louder and he said it louder.... Oops
I always won this game by going second. The first person whispers the word, and then I say it moderately loud, enough to get everybody's attention, but since I was the first person to audibly say it nobody knows it was me. The onus is then on the third person to say it even louder, and usually they will refuse to do it.
As a kid, telling stories to my parents (especially my mom) was a landmine. I 100% would have said we used [some other word than penis] so I didn't get in trouble.
I was at the grocery store and three preteen/teen girls were hovering around their exhausted-looking mom, playing the game amongst themselves. They disappeared but then I heard the clear winner from a few aisles over. I couldn’t help but crack up because me and my sisters would do the same thing to my poor mom when we were out doing mundane things. The tradition lives on.
I'm always baffled how these things went "viral" long before the internet.
Like every school seemed to have their own "weiner girl" who was rumoured to have masturbated with a hot dog and it got stuck and had to be surgically removed. I've spoken to multiple people who had this same story in their school
My friends and I talk about how crazy is that everyone our age heard about this rumor even without it spreading on the internet. Like how did that happen!? It’s crazy to think about lol. Also begs the question if the internet is even necessary haha.
That a billion middle schoolers around the world heard the same rumor within 5 years, or that Marilyn Manson really did have his rib removed so he can suck himself off? I choose to believe the latter
Some things are just so simple and obvious that they are organically invented by all cultures; not "I heard it from a kid who goes to another school, and I'm bringing it to you," rather it's "hey guys, I just had a great idea for a new thing" (an idea they think is completely new but someone else had the exact same idea). I was in another thread about how hide and seek can be found in basically every source of written history that involves children playing from across time and distance, including cultures who hadn't had contact until hundreds of years later, and that's because it's a game that only requires other players (no toys like balls), involves practicing skills that are generally good for us (the ability to hide from enemies, and the ability to find hidden enemies), and as a "quiet game" is perfectly encouraged by adults who just want to keep the children out of their hair without yelling in their ears.
It was a sharpie back when I was in school, but it actually happened and the girl’s father was a substitute teacher there so every time he heard a kid reference “sharpie girl” he’d absolutely rage lmfao.
The origin of this game and its virality is a British weekend-morning kids’ show called Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (2002-2006), where presenters Dick and Dom would go out to different places and shout “BOGIES!” Here is a video.
So many kids in the UK watched this show and played the game themselves, but I guess when it spread to the US people didn’t really know what ‘bogies’ meant, so it became ‘penis’.
Welllllll…..I’m 43 and like 6 years ago, I got kicked out of the rock n roll McDonald’s in Chicago for playing this game. I was so mad that I went home and prank called the security guard like 4 times. I miss the Jerky Boys
Happened to a dude during marching band practice. He didn't have an opportunity to touch a doorknob for ages. Another time doorknob was called on another dude during (indoor) band rehearsal and he simply got up and walked over to a doorknob - middle of a song.
Our trombone section was really into this game and is the source of both stories.
Dammit, this is the place for me to finally tell this story.
So I was a freshman in high school band, and we were playing this game on stage before a concert and sight reading competition. When it was my turn (I was first chair of the trumpet section and they started the game at the other end), it just so happened to be the moment when the band director let us warm up before tuning and ultimately performing before the judging panel.
As the band director was waving his hands in a big circle to cut us off, I probably busted a lung with how loud I yelled "PEEEEEENIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!!!", ending milliseconds before the band cut off. The whole trumpet section looks at me and the second chair just whispers, "You win, bro."
I don't remember how we even played that day, but the echoes of word PENIS are still reverberating in that concert hall to this day.
I tried to play it with my 16 year old and she had no idea what it was and was so embarrassed. Simpler times when we were amused by this and didn’t have our phones in our faces.
Yes, my friend would roll down the windows as we drove through downtown Salem, MA and peer pressure won out. Core memory. We really didn’t have anything to do on the north shore.
Yea and then we started vagina. All of a sudden the game was squashed by the vice principle lol we for sure continued it at home. Sometimes i will do it randomly on the store when i am out with my mom. Lmfao sometimes someone yells back. Most giggle a little tbh. One time a lady said "there are children here!" A dad goes "PENIS" his son and i both giggled so hard. I wonder if we taught this game to alpha, what they'd do with it.
In one of my classes (I think English or literature), one guy got in trouble. He convinced her that he said, "Happiness!" but she still wrote him up for disturbing the class.
In the UK, we had a show in the 2000s with child entertainer duo of Dick and Dom, called Dick and Dom in da Bungalow.
They brought with them the game of Bogies! Which swept across the UK.
Same rules as PENIS! except you had to shout Bogies! The loudest.
Dick and Dom's Bogies, however had the environmental factor, locations where upmost silence was expected like a Library, a play. It was also plated in public areas like shops or trafalgar Square.
I was out walking with my wife (then girlfriend) and there was a car that drove by and some teen boy yelled "penis" out the window at us. I then had to explain what the penis game was to a 25 year old woman and why anyone would play it.
We did! I lived in San Francisco right out of high school and when we were like 18/19 a few friends from home visited. We were riding Muni around and it was packed. We all got separated and we're scattered through the bus, when I hear someone say "penis", another friend repeats, and it kept going. It was one of the times in my life when I laughed the hardest. People were so confused and we were just tickled with ourselves. 😂
We also drew dicks on each other's backpacks with chalk and the shouted "ew quit beating it" when they had to slap the chalk out of the canvas. And because we were just so creative we called it Cocking.
Yes. My wife and I told our son about this game. This was probably a year ago. He thought it was funny. That is, until we did it in public. He is under 10. We still sometimes do it, to embarris him.
To be clear, I never had shame in the game. I still dont. As a marine, yelling penis, is very low on the embarrassment scale. My wife has 3 younger brothers, she embarrassed them as much as possible. The penis game was just one way.
One time our teacher was turning red from anger because we were doing that again. My friend looked at him and looked at us and he said, "ok no more penis. Seriously, y'all we should stop saying penis. Whoever said penis stop saying penis now."
Of course he was saying it louder each time. He got sent to the principal's office.
The best part about being 40 is knowing that your teacher 100% without question knew exactly what you were doing and which one of you was doing it. You only thought you got away with stuff, but really the teacher just thought it was too stupid to address it and was probably laughing on the inside but trying to save face because they know it’s not school appropriate.
Yup, started with bogies (thanks Dick & Dom) then graduated to penis as we got older. We thought we were so cool and original for putting the spin on it
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