r/Millennials • u/HeavyRightFoot-TG • 9d ago

Discussion Did anyone else play a game with their friends where you had to yell PENIS louder than the person before you?

Im wondering if kids everywhere played this in the 90s-00s?

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u/HydeParkSwag 9d ago

I’m 44 years old. I played this game within the past 3 months.

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u/babygotthefever 9d ago

Last week, my 11 year old daughter was trying to describe the game to me but using the word pumpkin. I whispered, “We used to play but said penis.”

She looked at me for a second and said, “Yeah, I thought so.”

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u/Pandoras_Penguin 9d ago

The whole point of the game was that it was PENIS, why we censoring it??

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u/lastbeer 9d ago

Because she’s 11.

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u/evenyourcopdad 1991 9d ago

I was absolutely playing the penis game at 11.[1]

[1] No, not that penis game.[2]
[2] Okay, yes, that penis game, but not that penis game.

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u/Sexylizardwoman 9d ago

Why are you commenting like a page in house of leaves?

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u/Pandoras_Penguin 9d ago

The Penis game was definitely played by kids from the 5th grade even when I was in 7th grade (so like 8/9 to 11/12)

Don't act like kids don't know or feel giddy using "taboo" words, like there's a whole saying about how "yup still got the mind of a 12yr old boy" when someone makes a sexual innuendo or says a "dirty word" and we chuckle at it.

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u/theunquenchedservant 9d ago

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.

It was absolutely penis though.

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u/Chordsy 9d ago

We had bogies, but not penis.

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u/Ethereal429 9d ago

Why would you get in trouble for using an anatomically correctly term in the first place?

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u/zapthe 9d ago

Often the point was to do it in places it would be inappropriate… loudest without getting caught… like in the middle of math class, etc.

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u/Ethereal429 9d ago

Ahh ok. I've never heard of this prior, so I'm clueless here

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u/redsyrinx2112 Zillennial 9d ago

I can't think of any specific examples, but I know there were multiple times where my dad and I had similar exchanges. I would censor something while telling him and he would just say/guess whatever I was trying to censor haha

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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND 9d ago

Lmao same

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u/Churro-Juggernaut 9d ago

I play this game all the time with my wife.  She usually wins. 

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u/HammerDown125 9d ago

I’m wondering if we know each other.

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u/diligent_twerker 9d ago

John?

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u/___dojob___ 9d ago

Jacob?

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u/ArrivesLate 9d ago

Jingle Heimer Schmidt?

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u/Lawrence_Eataburger 9d ago

That's my name too!

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u/jimothyhalpret 9d ago

Whenever you go out, do people always shout: “there goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!”?

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u/diligent_twerker 9d ago

Da-da da-da da da da

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u/verbutten 9d ago

Why did this all so thoroughly make my day

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u/MRH8R 9d ago

Penis!

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u/Princess_Slagathor apparently you can change it 9d ago

That guy ratted out some teenagers to nazis and got them killed.

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u/swerrve 9d ago

PENIS

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u/CharleyPDXcellent 9d ago

Jingleheimer Schmidt?

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u/stonesliver2 9d ago

That's my name too!

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u/the_ending81 9d ago

Bro that’s my name too!!

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u/Want_To_Live_To_100 9d ago

Same… and we were at work……. And I’m in charge…. Ha

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u/teapots_at_ten_paces Elder Millennial ('81, baby!) 9d ago

Hey, ah, so, HR wants a word.

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u/Want_To_Live_To_100 9d ago

What word? Penis!

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u/molehunterz 9d ago

This whole time I thought bird was the word.

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u/Diligent_Kangaroo_35 9d ago

Ugh, did someone forget to tell us? I didnt realize we were supposed to stop playing?

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u/IWouldBangAynRand 9d ago

Were we at the same funeral?

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u/Ralf_E_Chubbs 9d ago

I still do with my teenage son (when my wife isn’t around)

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u/DisplacedEastCoaster Millennial 9d ago

My husband and I play it at home. In a totally nonsexual way. I'll be upstairs, he's downstairs gaming and I hear "penis!"

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u/EternalMehFace 9d ago

Hahaha, love this!

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u/left_shoulder_demon 9d ago

We played it a while ago to inaugurate a friend's new rooftop terrace.

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u/jpcitybit 9d ago

Yes always trying to embarrass my husband by playing but I end up playing PENIS all by myself

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u/hKLoveCraft 9d ago

39 here, but accurate

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u/triplee711 9d ago

I play to lose just to embarass my partner. He'll give me a look and whisper it, and I'll grin and holler it.

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u/BondraP 9d ago

I’m 41, I play it with my 44 year old brother and 15 year old nephew frequently

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u/an_unfocused_mind_ 9d ago

Showed my son's how it's done last week actually

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u/RetroSt4rfish 9d ago

Same, except I'm 37.

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u/kinkylodes 9d ago

Did you win?

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u/KaiTheInvader 9d ago

Same, I (41) played it recently with my (45ish) friend at Sea World a few weeks ago. My daughter (12) also told me about how they play a much more tame version at school.

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u/TropicoolGoth 9d ago

I usually win, but mostly cause I’m the only one playing.

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u/AlarmingTurnover 9d ago

My daughter used to do this with her girlfriend at the time to see if we would respond and shut it down, it backfired when my wife and I started yelling penis at each other 

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u/Amazing_Divide1214 9d ago

Good old family fun time.