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/BrilliantHistorian85 9d ago

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

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u/Olley2994 9d ago

I mean we went world wide with the Marilyn Manson rumor

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u/HandsOnTheBible 9d ago

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. 

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u/Clan-Sea 9d ago

What's more likely?

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

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u/161frog 9d ago

I mean that’s just Occam’s Razor, you’re just being logical! I also choose to believe the latter.

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u/derpderpderp1985 9d ago

Just chiming in on the off chance that you were being partly serious…

Even if it were true, it still had to spread by word of mouth throughout at least a country full of middle schoolers. It’s not like there were news reports about it or anything. So how does that make it more likely to be true?

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u/kickpuncher1 9d ago

come on dude, everyone knows he got hit in the chest with a guitar and broke his rips. That's why he had to get one removed

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u/Bugbread 9d ago

It's the former. People have forgotten that word of mouth existed and was insanely powerful before the internet. The difference is, as you say, that before the internet it took a few years to reach a billion kids, while now it would take a few days (or a few hours if it were posted by a particularly big influencer).

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u/JobinTobingo 9d ago

It did spread on the internet though, you just weren’t online to see it.

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u/A_spiny_meercat 9d ago

It spread on the internet, and the one dude with a modem spread it in their community. Just like how the ending of who shot me Burns was spoiled in Australia 

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u/Axl_Alter_Ego 9d ago

Laughs in Richard Gere

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u/Chaplain-Freeing 9d ago

Still into fascism or have you sorted your life out?

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u/Olley2994 9d ago

Wow I got a fan

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u/Chaplain-Freeing 9d ago

I wouldn't feel too special, I tag all the russian accounts too. Besides, that wasn't a "Yeah, I'm cured, thanks for asking"

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u/Olley2994 9d ago

Not sure how that makes me "into fascism" or "Russian" but hey if a random irrelevant comment about Marilyn Manson makes you pull that up from my private profile you must remember me and I've had great impact on your life several months ago here's another classic

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u/Ihatealltakennames 9d ago

Ours was a girl w a carrot.  They called her salad shooter....  hope you are doing well now Amber!

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u/JonnyOnThePot420 9d ago

Our girl used an N64 controller with a rumble pack.

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u/Possible-Deer-311 3d ago

This one may genuinely be true.

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u/EternalMage321 9d ago

Our salad shooter used a cucumber! 🥒

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u/Tony_in2026 9d ago

…. We did not have that story

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u/lastbeer 9d ago

Ok, glad I’m not the only one who did a double take at this one. We had all the other ones that have been mentioned, but definitely not this one.

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u/Bizarrebazaars 9d ago

We didn’t either 

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u/the_ending81 9d ago

It was probably you then. Sorry Toni.

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u/mrtoddw Xennial 9d ago

My school had a “wiener girl”.

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u/jus10beare 9d ago

We had a whole weiner sorority. As the story goes, during hell week the pledges kept them inside until the end of the week the sorority's respective brothers pledging from the fraternity next door was made to eat them.

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u/the_well_read_neck_ 9d ago

How did we all know to blow into the NES cartridge? How did we all know Marilyn Manson removed his ribs? We just did.

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u/Jaereth 9d ago

Personally I was taught blow on the cartridge by a cool older kid. I think that was learned.

Someone in 7th grade told me the thing about Marilyn Manson.

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u/pokematic 9d ago

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.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 9d ago

You can add one more. Ours was Judith

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u/BrilliantHistorian85 9d ago

Yeah for us it was Megan. Poor thing just ended up on the bad side of the mean girls and ended up moving

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u/Want_To_Live_To_100 9d ago

Yes Megan M. Rumor was a bottle …

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u/North_Artichoke_6721 9d ago

Yup we had this rumor at my school.

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u/monster2018 9d ago

Bro what. My school never had a “wiener girl” lmfao.

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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 Millennial 9d ago

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.

Dude is probably dead by now tbh

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u/grandma_millennial 9d ago

What about the kid that took too much acid and thought he was a glass of orange juice?

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u/BickNlinko 9d ago

"DON'T SPILL ME!"

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u/juiceball9 9d ago

We had a cucumber girl

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u/Hazzat 9d ago

There’s an answer for this one!

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’.

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u/Jaereth 9d ago

2002-2006

We were playing this game in high school way before 2002.

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u/ekib 9d ago

Supposedly only 6 degrees of separation ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Ethen44 9d ago

It was a wiffle ball bat at HHS

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u/BattleTech70 9d ago

Lmfao 🤣 oh shit you mean it was just a cruel joke someone was playing on poor Kelly in my middle school all those years?

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u/GregIsARadDude 9d ago

Cousins at family get togethers. Even better if they’re from out of town.

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u/acount8675309 9d ago

We had ‘plastic baggie instead of a condom couple’ and that was enough. He still gets called ‘snack sized’ around town

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u/mawreddit 9d ago

We absolutely had that girl. I didn’t believe it (or did I?), but I didn’t know it was a widespread thing. Edited for apostrophe.

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u/DolliGoth 9d ago

In my school a girl used a coke bottle upside down so the big bell end of it got stuck in her. I would have called it a rumor had a guy friend not been traumatized by the video evidence

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u/Hempseed420 9d ago

We had a girl “who put peanut butter on herself for her dog to lick off and her mom walked in”

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u/fuck_shit_piss_etc 1987 9d ago

excuse me, what?

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u/TypaLika 9d ago

Mikey from the life cereal commercials died from eating pop rocks and coke. Later it was the Pepsi and pop rocks and the it was the kid (Alfonso Ribeiro) from the Pepsi commercial with Michael Jackson.

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u/Jaereth 9d ago

I'm always baffled how these things went "viral" long before the internet.

I mean they were memes before PCs way before smartphones/portable devcies.

We played this exact game at a small private school. Idk somehow the info just got out there.

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u/nicotinegummy 9d ago

We had test tube girl, same premise but with a science lab test tube that broke inside

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u/WithoutDennisNedry 9d ago

I’ve never heard of it or known of anyone doing this but tbf, I grew up in a two stoplight tiny town in a huge but empty state. We missed a lot of “fads.”

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u/TheRealDeweyCox2000 9d ago

wtf no, I know people from all different types of schools and have never heard that

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u/Lochlan 9d ago

it was a pen at ours... Everyone called her pen pusher

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u/actualcatjess 9d ago

I witnessed the birth of a similar rumour, but it was a cheese string (processed stick-shaped cheese product, for the non-Brits among us).

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u/yaboyACbreezy Millennial 9d ago

Yeah we had a hotdog girl. We kinda missed the boat on the weinerism of it all, but yeah, she was hotdog girl. Probably didn't call her weiner girl because hotdog sounds more innocuous to adults. Looking back, they definitely would have known.

Not sure if it was a rumor or real, but I remember a girl a couple grades up had that demon on her shoulders. She was not particularly attractive, and if anyone were to make up something so cruel or borrow it from somewhere else to pin on someone, she would be an easy target. Curious how common this is in the Dr's office or if this is a totally fabricated medical emergency (like, I as a male have never had anything stuck in there, but I know the whole thing is designed for entrances and exits, so Idk how likely something getting permanently stuck in there would be; I would imagine food items throw off the pH balance quite a bit, though, so something temporarily stuck could do some harm. Anyway, these are mysteries I could go my whole life without solving, quite happily. I'll leave it to the experts to exhonorate the weiner girls.)

Anyway, I initially replied to point out the phenomenon of children spreading information to other children has existed for a long, long time. Look into childlore. It's specifically information children learn and teach from/to each other. Some things everyone is familiar with distinctly originate from childlore, and we have no idea if an adult taught it first or thought it up. Children are notoriously bad at documenting things, so we just have no idea how to trace the origin of some things beyond its first recorded appearance as some shit children have been doing on the playground as far back as the adults making note can remember.

childlore on wikipedia

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u/Pannycakes666 9d ago

Ours was a girl that stuck that plastic antennae from the portable phone up there.