Gnip Gnop

[cabinetman]

This is what we called the game as a kids. We spent hours at it. Anyone know what this is, or call it that?

[crokett]

This game?

http://www.boardgames.com/gnipgnopgame.html

[cabinetman]

This game?

http://www.boardgames.com/gnipgnopgame.html

No Davey, that's not the one!!! You're too Google happy.
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[Ed62]

Nope. Never heard of it.

Ed

[cwsmith]

I used to play that with my son, back in the 70's. Noisey game... used to drive my wife nuts (me too, unless I was playing it). Lots of fun though. The little guy could beat me though, a 7-year old is tough to match reaction time with.

We just moved a ton of these old games to the new home. I couldn't believe we had so many of them stuffed away in the attic. Toss-A-Cross, Break-the-Ice, Operation, Battle Ship, and more than I can remember. Also Merlin and a ton of other games.

CWS

[jking]

No Davey, that's not the one!!! You're too Google happy.
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The game David mentioned was the one I was thinking of. We had one like that when I was growing up. I had two older brothers. It's amazing the game lasted as long as it did they way we played it.

I'm curious to see what the game is your referring to.

Edit: I didn't catch the sarcasm the first time around C-man. Also, some people refer to ping pong as "gnip gnop".

[bthere]

There was a game that we played that we called Hinky-Pinky. When we described it to somebody one time they said "Oh, you mean gnip-gnop". I never heard anybody else call it that, though.

Hinky-Pinky was just a silly word game that involved rhyming. You would say something like, "I have a hink-pink for a large truck" and the correct response would be "big rig". Another example would be a "hinky-pinky for a pontiff's fastener" which would be a "papal staple". As you might notice, the clue to the number of syllables is given by the hink-pink, hinky-pinky, hinkity-pinkity, etc.

I haven't thought of that in a large number of years.

[scmhogg]

Cab,

Ping Pong??

[cabinetman]

Edit: I didn't catch the sarcasm the first time around C-man. Also, some people refer to ping pong as "gnip gnop".

Yeah, you guessed right. It's ping pong backwards. It's what we called the game.
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STEVE - Nice guess too. in fact, the "gnip gnop" sounds more like the paddle hitting the ball and the ball hitting the table, or is it my imagination?
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[Stormbringer]

duck duck goose? i know it's not the answer, just couldn't resist typing it. Sorry

[dkhoward]

WHen our kids were small we had a regulation size ping pong table inside a single car garage. The walls and cieling were sheetrocked but not painted and we used to play with all the walls and cieling in play like raquetball. Could get very interesting learning to play the banks, richochetes and the really fast balls that came down off the cieling at a steep angle.

[cabinetman]

WHen our kids were small we had a regulation size ping pong table inside a single car garage. The walls and cieling were sheetrocked but not painted and we used to play with all the walls and cieling in play like raquetball. Could get very interesting learning to play the banks, richochetes and the really fast balls that came down off the cieling at a steep angle.

That is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time. Now that would be some kind of exercise.
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[mater]

Now that I know what it is I used to be pretty good at it.

[Bruce Cohen]

Yo Cab,

You really have way too much time on your hands.

[crokett]

I noticed it was ping pong spelled backwards but I thought that was too simple.