![]() These iconic games have been passed down generation to generation and we know why - they’re timeless fun! 1. A boys madcap adventures as he tries to retrieve his bouncing ball are told. Simon Says A statue of Simon de Montfort on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester, England. Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz in 1940 at RKO Pictures. to note how many scenes from this book were for typically boy type stuff. While I Love Lucy showcased the fun-loving, madcap couple, behind the scenes, there were extramarital affairs and plenty of scandal. Simon Montfort, the 6th Earl of Leicester is rumoured to be the man Simon Says is named after - but, if true, he wasn’t exactly the embodiment of family fun you’d expect him to be. Actually, he wasn’t much of a family man at all. In 1264, he led a revolt against King Henry III of England - who also happened to be his brother-in-law. The change in name may have been a classic case of broken telephone, occurring over the game’s 2,000 year history dating back to ancient Greece.īut it may have also had something to do with the omission of a particularly violent aspect of the game that existed in earlier versions. In the Blind Man’s Bluff we played growing up, the blindfolded player who was “it” was often teased verbally by the other players as they evaded capture. This was tame compared to the variant played in the Middle Ages, where participants would harass and buffet (repeatedly strike) the “blind man.”Īmong the Igbo in Nigeria, a variation of the game is called Kola onye tara gi okpo? Which roughly translates to “can you find the person who knocked you on the head?” In this variation, children form a circle around the child who is “it.” Instead of taking the risk with a potentially faulty blindfold, another player covers the eyes of the unlucky player in the centre. ![]() A player in the surrounding circle then smacks the “blinded” player in the back of the head and returns to his or her position in the circle. In my first recollection, the boom and the rumble when the plane hit the first tower were ominous.If the “blinded” player identifies the assailant once his or her eyes are uncovered, the offending player must assume the position in the middle. In that version of events, my husband was stepping out of the subway when he saw the plane hit the second tower, and I called him on his cellphone. I did hear, from our little apartment on the other side of the river in Brooklyn, something odd that Tuesday morning. But I thought nothing of it until a coworker emailed that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. My husband was running late to his job in the West Village so by the time he got out of the subway, both towers were already on fire. I know these things, when I focus in a little harder on what I know to be true about my life back then, but the memories feel authentic. ![]() That day - especially those earliest hours of it - has been chronicled, packaged, interpreted and misinterpreted so exhaustively over the past two decades that it's easy to remember things we only saw on television, or heard about later. It's easy to remember things that didn't happen at all. In recent years, there's been a growing interest in the so-called Mandela effect, the phenomenon of a collective but incorrect memory, (or, as conspiracy theorists allege, a memory of events from an alternate reality). The term was coined in 2009, when writer Fiona Broome realized her detailed memory of the death of Nelson Mandela was impossible.
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