Ok, who used to love playing Four Square?

[bicentennial_baby]

That was my game in Elementary School! Saw lots of kids in Maine playing it on the beach. How about you?

[malta blue]

1. Me Me Me....

and now I get to play it with Little MB too!

[bicentennial_baby]

2. I need to get some people together for a game...

Lucky you!

[HughBeaumont]

3. I didn't.

The popular bitches would have "tea parties" and quick-spike the nerds and outcasts like me out of the game.

I sat in the far corner of the "1" square with a raised middle finger, waiting for them to do it, and got sent to the office.

That town is nothing but an old weed-pocked ruin now.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Awwwww....

Ah yes, the dreaded quick-spike...

[HughBeaumont]

13. Thank you.

Newlywed.

And I owe you something, now that I remember.

It'll have to come in parts: the first of which is a BBQ sauce made out of a few alcoholic drinks -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Yay! Thank you!!

[janx]

33. Four square should never be co-opted by groups of people

like the tea party females you mention. This is an individual's game. They cheated and wrecked the integrity of the game.

[MissMillie]

5. I must have lead a sheltered life...

for I do know know what Four Square is.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. here you go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_square

[Giant Robot]

9. Oh I so need to get into a four square league!

I used to kick butt at that game. Although that seemed to be the only "sport" that I kicked butt at...

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Hehe, same here!

[IndianaJones]

6. hot peppers!

spuds!

[janx]

29. Those terms sound familiar,

but I no longer remember what they mean!

[racaulk]

8. I did!

What a fun game!

[sniffa]

11. i caLL no doubLe taps!!

[bicentennial_baby]

12. I challenge you to a duel!

Whap-ap!

[hfojvt]

15. I absolutely

detest 4 square!!!

We played it one week in PE and then suddenly the whole playground was covered with people playing 4 square. That would not be a problem, except that they took over the frigging basketball court. A basketball court should be for playing basketball and that's what I wanted to do.

It was like a fuggin virus!

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Understood...

It's really fun though!

[janx]

17. Oh man! YES! And there was GIANT four square too,

with a larger ball and larger squares. I had forgotten all about that. I'd be crazy enough to do it today!



At home, the neighbor kids and I played two square, but it wasn't nearly as much fun.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. There's a league here in Boston!

Sniffa and I are going to go play!

[janx]

22. Are you serious?

I didn't know the game was still around, let alone any official league! Where were you when you played it in grade school? I was in the mid west, and this was during the 60s. Was it popular in other places?

[bicentennial_baby]

24. Check this out!

http://www.squarefour.org /

The World Championships are in Maine every Winter

I was in Western MA, Mid-Late 80s.

[janx]

26. That is so cool.

I had no idea that kids were still playing it in the 80s. And the ball in the pic...a good, rubber ball!

[Nikia]

19. I played 4 square in elementary school in Ohio

That was one of my main playground activities for a while.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Good times...

[LaraMN]

21. Nope. I played "kiss and kill," and "toilet monster."

The latter involved trying to pull people through a giant tractor tire, into the "toilet" below.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Hicks...

Btw, update your blog please! I'm bored!

[LaraMN]

31. Alright! I'll do it tonight.

Thanks for the kick in the ass. I've been slackin'...

[janx]

28. What constituted the "toilet" below--

or was this an imaginary toilet?

[LaraMN]

32. An enclosure made from other tractor tires.

Yeah.

[janx]

23. The quality of the ball was very important.

The best was a rubber ball that you could really slug with the heel of your hand.

[SPKrazy]

27. I did!

in grade school it was one of the first ball games we played on the playground

[janx]

30. I was actually pretty good at it...

"for a girl"...

We had giant four square on our playground, and I used to play against guys who were a couple of years older than I was.

[SPKrazy]

34. I remember playing it a lot

in like first grade, second grade maybe

then it was softball, football, soccer, basketball

four square was fun though

[Maine-ah]

35. wow, been a long time since I played that!

we actually had a four square court painted out at my middle school. Fun game.

[femmocrat]

36. I was a playground teacher right after high school, and we played it non-stop.

Remembering how much fun it was, the PE teacher and I decided to organize it at recess duty. The kids weren't even interested. How sad.

[sniffa]

37. i smeLL a megahit movie

a bunch of LovabLe Losers form a 4square team, and enter a tournament in hopes of winning the grand prize and saving one of their grandmother's house and she doesn't have to go into a home.

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