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To settle a dispute....when we were all kids and you played games like kick the bucket and hide and seek....what was the phrase you yelled for all to come out? It was Olly Olly.....what? :huh:

Come on Afterhours and SKD....I need your help! :rotfl:

I'm free ??? Or something like that... :gf:

Olly Olly Oxen Free....How the hell i remeber that i dunno! Now can someone tell me what the hell that meens!?!

This is FishChick
 

Unless you can tell me what ollie ollie oxen free means then i say is's ollie ollie infantry!!!!

Nope...do a yahoo search and you'll see im right!

How about :scream: at the top of your lungs, "BIGFISH in the can"

FishChick does not believe I am right! I know I am! :laugha:

yah...I am pretty sure it is oxen free.... :wave:

I second that.

Bigfish right....FishChick Wrong :bl: Its def Oxen free

i'll fourth that.
oxen free

oxen free :D

sorry fishchick, you wrong :hihi:

Another Vote for Oxen Free...

I think "Ollie Ollie Infantry" is what the Contras in Nicaragua used to yell when they played. :D

Though I'd like to stick with the girls' team, it is oxen free -- even in my day, which was pretty recently.

Oxen Free or In come free.....I still use that when I'm fishing :lossinit:

Now thats funny :laugha:

Scottish/ British origins, originally " All ye, All ye, Walks in Free"

Couple that with a Scottish, or even a Cockney accent, hollered through cupped hands, early Americans heard it as "Olly, Olly, Oxen Free"


PNG is right, the other is waaaay too funny ;)

I remember both....prolly a city thing

Come to find out it was both....Slingah is quite right....a city thing cause she grew up in Southie where they do everything strange! :rolleyes: Thanks for your help all!

In come free

Olly olly entrance free. :)

At least that's how i remmeber it.

I 2nd dads opinion:

it was OLLY OLLY IN COME freeeeee...

meaning all other players could enter the zone without penalty.

as many were still hiding when someone had already kicked the can.

In my neighbohood, it was, olly olly in free, usually ment the game was over or needed to restart due to more players showing up.

found this info ...
 

discovered that this game had been created in the 1800s in Scotland,
and in no time at all ->>>they were playing it in England...
Well obviously it made it to the United States because we all played it as kids..
What did you call out when it was time to call the unfound in????
WELL WE MESSED UP.. HOW THE GAME WAS CREATED was
when it was time to call out you would yell
CALLING ALL THE OUTS IN FREE
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and an even better explanation is
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I believe this game is very old and originated in Great Britain.

Olli Olli oxen free is really "All ye All ye walks in free" said very fast
with a stong lower-class British accent. To an American ear it would sound like
All e All e aux in free when said quickly.

With a lower-class British accent, the "w" gets dropped in "walks" as
does the "y" in "ye." Try it a few times and you will see what I mean.

having run it through my mind a million times now , we used to say Olly Olly Enfree which is like the infree someone else mentioned. Funny how something like that can torment your brain till you remember.

I rember it being ollie ollie entry or ollie ollie infantry
atleast thats the way we did it in Randolph back in the late 1960s - 1970s !
I'll have to ask my kids how they do it now in Wrentham!

phrase
 

Olly (slang for all) Olly in free.........

Meaning you didn't get caught by whoever was it.

Yep... told ya that on page 1 ;) :hihi:

I'm freakin' confused now..... :topic: