British Bulldog

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

This is the game where lots of children line up in two lines, then a child from one team runs at the other line with an aim to breaking it. If you break through the line, then you rejoin your team, and your team gets another go. If the line holds firm, you join the other team, and it's their go. Many schools have banned this, and had when we were at school, but I think from anecdotal evidence that it was mainly C of E/other protestant schools that did this, whereas RC schools still allow the game. So, a test:[Poll #271314]

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[crystal-claire.livejournal.com]

We had:

Stick In The Mud (freezing and going through legs as described above)

Chainies (sounds more like Ghoti's original description, where you had to break or bypass the chain to get to the other side and joined the chain if you failed)

British Bull Dogs, where you had to run from one side of the playground to the other, past the bulldogs. If you got caught by the bulldogs, then you joined them for the next round. If not, you were free to run it again. The game probably started with only one or two bulldogs, but by the end, there would be only a couple of people trying to evade the other 30.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that was the game I was thinking of.

Casual spoddig causes invalid LJ polls - I've *never* played the game described here as BB

[simont]

Yes, that was the game I knew as British Bulldog. None of this "two lines" business at all...

[davefish.livejournal.com]

As with me, though there were also two variants.

The gentle one where you had to pick the person up and say "1,2,3 British Buldogs" and then they would be caught, and the somewhat rougher one where you had to wrestle them onto the ground.

Of course the best plan was usually to follow very closely the biggest bunch of people and hope to avoid any assaults on your bulldog-dom.

[crystal-claire.livejournal.com]

Just hijacking this thread to say "Hi, babe", and give Simon a big big hug! *grins*