That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL
I don’t see cold on the cob, which is my favorite.
FORCEY FUN TIME, jesus christ XD
Struggle snuggle
This couldn’t be written by a brit, dont they call gravy brown sauce and white sauce?
No, brown sauce is brown sauce.
What the hell is brown sauce.
It’s brown…. sauce.
~Duh. Pay attention.~
FedEx calls it ‘Failed Delivery’.
They don’t knock.
No, that’s the Feds.
No that’s Mr. White
That would be if they arrived at the wrong door.
And then shot your dog.
Classic Feds giving the ol “shoot an innocent being” tactics
That’s if they knock at all
Those FedEx scumbags creep up to your door like a ninja, slap the sticker tag on your door, and sneak off with the package still in the van.
False, FedEx don’t knock
I like this one
Tolkien’s first draft
The Fuckoffship of the Ring
Huh, never heard that one. My teacher once said “arrêtez donc les conneries avec les sonnettes” so we called it “connettes” but I’m fairly sure that was just a handful of grade 4s, that one year.
In the US south they use a racial slur, because of course
Mhm, midwest US and N***** Knocking was what we were told it was called, because of course.
It became Ding Dong Ditch once we grew up a little.
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Can confirm as an eighties kid in California
i might be a titch younger than you, i grew up in california, hit maturity right around the turn of the millenium and i learned the term when i moved to Utah in my 20s (early 2000s). california’s pretty big tho, shasta is not san diego.
my parents and friends all referred to it as doorbell ditching (or ding dong ditching), at least when i was around
Honky Hookin’
Not sure what OP’s mom has to do with anything
Rural southern person here we called it Knock, Knock, Dash how is that racist?
I grew up in a very bigoted Southern town that was still firing people from schools for being gay in the 2000s, and they still frown on interracial marriage. The N Word was a regular part of life growing up.
We called it Ding Dong Ditch.
Heard that one too. And I grew up in racist state and town they had open KKK stickers on their bumpers but still never heard a racist version. Which guess I am grateful for.
Your experience does not disprove mine, as a fellow southerner
it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)
Spent some childhood in coastal Mississippi and I can attest this is the case
If it came from the old world as “Knicky Knocky,” it would make sense* that the racist US version would sound similar to that.
/* As much as any racist shit “makes sense,” of course.
First, I checked that this isn’t a British comm.
We call it Doorbell Ditch It. Because, obviously, the game here is to ring the doorbell and run. It’s not a common game anymore, because, first, people don’t answer their door unless they’re expecting someone, and, B) A lot of people have the front door state surveillance cameras installed. But, also, III) there’s a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
I think older GenZ were the last to really enjoy it.
there’s a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
Well duh, that’s why you gotta run fast!
Serpentine, over bushes and shit 😂
there’s a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
About a decade ago, I was stationed in South Carolina with the US military. While briefing us on the local area, they told us that Halloween is usually spent at the local high school football field, in an event called “Trunk or Treat.”
Basically, adults would line up their cars on the field and then hand out candy to trick-or-treaters from the trunks of their cars. I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before.
Turns out, some young boy and his father went up to a door a few years prior for trick-or-treating and the guy who lived there was tripping out on meth or something. When the doorbell rang, he thought the cops were there to bust him, so he grabbed a rifle and unloaded a clip through the door, killing the little boy and his dad. Ever since, the town held Trunk or Treat as a safe alternative to going up to strangers’ doors.
Traditional trick-or-treating still existed in the town, but it was an at-your-risk event. I lived in a pretty nice new neighborhood, so we had tons of visitors. But every military family I knew sent their kids to the Trunk or Treat.
What happens if you chose trunk?
Trunk or treat also happens in rural areas where the houses are far apart.
As someone who grew up down south in the UK, it’s “knock down ginger”
I have no idea who ginger is and what they have to do with prank knocking
If you rearrange some of the letters in ginger you get the hate crime version of the name from the US South.
Hmm… That didn’t seem right to me, so I looked it up
The “knock, knock, ginger” is linked to a 1967 Childhood in Poetry book by John Mackay Shaw. Behold these glorious verses:
Ginger, Ginger broke a winder, Hit the winda—crack! The baker came out to give ‘im a clout, And landed on his back.
However, we’ve also seen the game called knock down ginger.
This may actually be more accurate, as “knock down” is a term dating to the late 18th century. It refers to knocking on a door by pulling the door knock striker.
Plus, ginger was a common term then as it meant to “ginger up” (move smartly). So, knock the door, leg it in timely fashion.
https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/
That feels a bit more like it to me, though surprised it’s not even a century old, I figured it was Victorian
Yeah a poem about whipping gingers on the back. From 1967.
Uh… Who is going to tell him?
We called it “Knock a Door Ginger”. Like you, never understood the Ginger significance
I’m from pretty much bang centre of the UK and we called it Postman’s Knock.
Do you want to know why? Well I’ve no fucking idea. My brother called it that so I called it that.
Also from southern UK and we called it knock down ginger. Looked it up and found this:
https://idiomorigins.org/origin/knock-down-ginger
Where ginger is to move “gingerly” i.e. cautiously or carefully. Can’t comment on how valid that is but that website says the term has been in use since the 19th century.
Don’t ask an American from 20-30 years ago…
I always heard it referred to as “ding dong ditch” in the 90s. But I’m Canadian and my only exposure to American terminology was sanitized thru TV broadcasting rules. Was there some kind of racist/sexist/homophobic term floating around or something?
Yes. I won’t repeat the whole phrase but it was called “n-word knocking” by some of the older kids on the playground. For reference, I’m an elder millennial.
What the absolute fuck. I’m in the same age bracket and I’ve never heard that before.
I’m in that age bracket too and remember it being referred to as this by some people. I came to the comments to see if it was a common thing or if I was just neighbors with racists…I guess a bunch of people were neighbors with racists.
Also in that bracket, grew up in Kentucky and can confirm, was neighbors with racists that passed it to their kids.
Oh you musta grew up in one of them fancy non-racist areas. Yeah, we definitely had this version even in the upper-midwest, along the rust belt. Elder millenial as well.
Elder millennial in the rust belt checking in. I didn’t hear it called ding ding ditch until the next generation came along. The racial slur was the only way I had heard it, but I was definitely the typical white male that looked like he fit in with the rural good ol boys crowd. Sadly still look the part until one of them accidentally mistakes me for an ally in their racist shit.
My aunt used to call it that… I knew, even as a kid, that was not cool.
Elder millennial here too. Never lived in the south till I was older. This was the phrase I heard in elementary school.
Elder millennial from Maine. Can confirm.
First I’ve heard of that. Absolute insanity.
Do you live in the south?
Nope, Midwest.
Am American from that time frame. We called it ding dong ditch, and so did everyone else I ever heard.
I didn’t hear that phrase till I was an adult. My initial reaction was “Oh, that’s a much better phrase”.
I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur… and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that’s just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I’m disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.
Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked “What does ‘negro’ mean?”… and with that I feel like I’ve done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.
I’m a little further north of you and had the same experience. That’s just what it was called. I didn’t know the racial bent to the word at all for a long time. Good on you for not letting it continue in your home.
All I know is that you are supposed to say you are looking for spare knickers if you get caught.
Are you saying we all just pronounced it wrong?
Knock-a-door-run, anyone?
This is the correct one.
Just knock door run for me
Yes. Can I raise you a 1,2,3 Home?
It’s cherry knocking and all of you are fucking heathens for disagreeing with me
What if you buggin and knock too hard, Mary?
Growing up in the NYC suburbs in the '60s/'70s we called it Ring ‘n’ Run.
Ding-dong Ditch, bitches!
This is all I’ve ever heard it called.
Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?
Tap Tap Toodle-oo
Which also can double for when you have a one-night stand.
Belletje Lellen
Canada, we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors.
Ding Dong Ditch in Surrey BC, 80s
My dad called it “cut the shit” but… on second thought that might not have been a name
Nicky Nicky nine doors, Surrey, 90s
