The playground is fun.

[Redneck 2000]

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A little while ago I tried the swings when I was with some little dudes at the park, it was a huge swingset and I tried the ultimate task of using no hands and trying to get to the height of the top bar. Physics won, and I fell off during the backswing about 10 feet face-first onto the ground. Luckily it was sand, and I was just knocked out for a little bit, but man the little kids got a kick out of it.

[John Mora]

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If I went to the playground I would be called a pedophile.

[Snarf]

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Whys that? Do you wear that name tag or something?

[Redneck 2000]

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No, because it's scientifically impossible to stuff his 30 foot penis into conventional clothing.

[Funk]

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"Hey baby, wanna climb 'The Slide'"?

[Crimson Knight]

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Psycho Killer, especially at night, sounded like a damn fun game. I used to play hide and seek blindfolded in the dark at my house with some of my cousins(while there were a lot of hiding spots, most of them were dead ends, so you had to pick your spots wisely). Childhood never ceases to be fun.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Loki's talk reminded me of all the stupid things I did with my friends a few years ago. No playgrounds involved, though. Instead, we just used a friend's basement - pretty much just one big, carpeted room with a ping pong table - and played Capture the President. You split into two groups, the ninjas and the President and his Secret Service, and go to opposite sides of the basement.

Then you turn the lights off - in the right basement, it should be pitch black, except for maybe a "safe zone" by a window. The object of the game for the ninjas is to find the president in the dark and pretty much torture him until he screams - if he involuntarily shouts or shrieks, the President and his men lose. So, the President's men has to defend him and fend off the ninjas until they give up (or until someone says, "It's been an hour, I'm sore, and this is getting gayer than I bargained for").

In pitch black, and in a big enough setting, the game involves more strategy and teamwork than you'd think. The ninjas could spread out and try detaining the President's men one at a time, or just Zerg rush on area. The President's men can set up a phalanx if they think they're strong enough, or have a decoy and hide the President in another corner of the room. And THEN, of course, you have to consider the best way to get the President to shriek -- the preferred method is squeezing his nipples. Naturally, I was almost always the President.

It is scary and fun as hell when you're being attacked, and the only way you can identify the assailant is by how hard he's squeezing your nipples.

[IRC]

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(or until someone says, "It's been an hour, I'm sore, and this is getting gayer than I bargained for").

That's how the best games usually end.

a dislodged eyeball on our playground

Ew, that's gotta be the worst thing ever. Was it all hanging out? How do you not get tramatized by that? I can never watch that one part in Any Given Sunday because of that.

[Manyak]

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the only way you can identify the assailant is by how hard he's squeezing your nipples.

Prom 2005!

[The Toecutter]

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I used to play a game I made up called "Drug Lords from Grenada" on the school playground. One group of kids were a bunch of South American mercenaries who's goal was to protect their drug lord, one kid was the drug lord, and the person who was 'it'(the badass commando) had to capture the drug lord without getting tagged by the mercenaries. The badass commando could recruit one person to act as the sniper, who hid and threw rocks at the mercenaries. If a mercenary was hit, he was out. The drug lord always had to be approxamately 5 feet from his mercenaries, but his mercenaries could still surround and protect him. If the commando is tagged, or the drug lord tagged by the commando, the game is over.

The sniper was the one who did the work, by ****ing off the mercenaries and luring them away from their drug lord. The commando had to find the right time to get to the drug lord, and it usually involved lots of hiding and sneak attacks.

Good times...

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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So many years. The town I'm in has two playgrounds (and it's no bigger than a mile wide) plus the playground at the school. Then there's the playground in the next town with the other playground at next-town's school. I've only been to the ones in this town, and the school playground in next-town.

Let's see, our city park's playground has a swing set and a crooked merry-go-round thing. Last I remember, it still was fun going around on that thing, though more often than not there weren't enough kids on there.

The other playground is sitting just on the other side of the railroad tracks (though not so close that kids'll constantly jump from one to the other; the tracks are sitting on a steep hill). This one is somewhat newer. It's been a while since I last payed any attention to it, even though it is right next to Central. I believe that it's in one of those rock pits, with some swings, one of those playground thingamajigs that kids climb on with a slide or two and the tic-tac-toe attatchment, and a real tank. Seriously, I even got to see them bring the tank in on a semi. Didn't see them getting it off, as I was passing the semi along the way to next-town. Kids climb on it, even though they're not allowed to. Haven't heard of anybody getting inside of it. The hatch is probably locked.

The school's playground has gone through a remodeling since I went to school there, which was the 4th grade (before kids going to the 5th grade moved to the school in next-town, though that's been changed from going from 5th to 6th). The old playground had a couple of splinter-hazard see-saws, a big blacktop, a couple swings, monkey bars, a slide with a bit of a tunnel at the slide's top, and a couple balance bars (just a couple bars that you "tightroped" across, each one a different size). I remember once I got mad about something and kicked the monkey bars real hard, and wound up hurting the muscle in my toes. Yeah, walking was real fun for the next week. Dunno what the new playground is like, though I can safely say it isn't as cool as it used to be.

The school playground in next-town is on a big blacktop, last I remember, with a map of the US painted on it. There are three swingsets, two big and one small with a slide. And of course, a few basketball hoops. Though I'm not sure if all that is the same as before. Though I remember there was this one swing that was never fixed. I also remember me getting mad about something or another, and hiding on the slide after lunch period was over. I finally decided to get back inside when it was the higher grades' time to get on the playground.

So, anybody remember Red Rover? Or maybe it was Red River. I can't remember for certain.

[Caciss]

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I used to play a game I made up called "Drug Lords from Grenada" on the school playground. One group of kids were a bunch of South American mercenaries who's goal was to protect their drug lord, one kid was the drug lord, and the person who was 'it'(the badass commando) had to capture the drug lord without getting tagged by the mercenaries. The badass commando could recruit one person to act as the sniper, who hid and threw rocks at the mercenaries. If a mercenary was hit, he was out. The drug lord always had to be approxamately 5 feet from his mercenaries, but his mercenaries could still surround and protect him. If the commando is tagged, or the drug lord tagged by the commando, the game is over.

The sniper was the one who did the work, by ****ing off the mercenaries and luring them away from their drug lord. The commando had to find the right time to get to the drug lord, and it usually involved lots of hiding and sneak attacks.

Good times...

If this was during elementary, I somehow highly doubt this is true.

[The Toecutter]

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It was during elementary, 6th grade at least.

[Caciss]

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And you guys all knew about the drug lords from Grenada?

[Lord_Mofop]

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I remember during recess. One of us would get on a swing, and the other would spin the guy until he could not be spun no more. They let go and the guy would fly around for awhile. We called those velocity spins. Pretty gay name, but it was fun. I threw up a couple of times too.

Me and my friends would also be territorial. There was this castle like thing with slides, ropes, and ladders coming down from it. My friend called it fort Assmonkey, and we'd go there and play handwritten rpg's we made. Then there were a couple of times when people tried to, "invade" us. They'd come up and throw rocks and woodchips. But we fought back. It was fun at the time. Out of my friends, I was considered a, "fearless warrior", for when the girl on the other force was trying to climb the slide to, "penetrate our defenses", I was brave enough to fly down the slide taking her out, then being on ground, picking up wood chips and throwing them at the opposing force. I, "took out" about 3 people and then ran back on the fort. What I wouldn't do to play that again.