chinese jump rope

[charley_alex]

does any one remember playing chinese jump rope? well we use to sing a little lyric while jumping, and i can't remember the words. it had something like itchy itchy, chi chi, someother words but when you ended by jumping on the rope you would say kill it. i am looking for the song lyrics? thanks alot

charlotte

[Buenchico]

AB's 'Gaming' section tends to get used almost exclusively by PC gamers, so your question might easily be missed in here. (You might find more people with long memories in something like 'Society & Culture', or even 'History').

However this site quotes 'Itchy me, star shee, Logo hutsy yutsy. - kill it':
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4693 2&messages=119&page=1

This one suggests "Each, me, son, she, loco, hassi, passi, kill it", with a suggestion that the numbering might have more to do with Japanese than Chinese:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20 071108035950AAiWFQd

This post doesn't really add that much - but it proves that the blogger has searched the same sites that I have!
http://revmocat.blogspot.com/2008/04/ancient-c hinese-secret.html

Your main problem might be that many such games would have had very localised words. The version used just a few miles down the road from your childhood home might have been considerably different to the one you knew. (When I started teaching, in northern Sheffield, I found that my colleagues in the south of the city didn't recognise most of the dialect and slang terms used by our pupils only a few miles away from them).

Chris