| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| The Scuppers This is a new forum for the not necessarily fishing related topics... |
 |
08-27-2005, 09:43 PM
|
#1
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
Need An Answer.....
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?  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 09:50 PM
|
#2
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
Come on Afterhours and SKD....I need your help!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 09:51 PM
|
#3
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
|
I'm free ??? Or something like that...  |
I'm going where I'm going... 
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:02 PM
|
#4
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Seekonk
Posts: 1,796
|
Olly Olly Oxen Free....How the hell i remeber that i dunno! Now can someone tell me what the hell that meens!?!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:05 PM
|
#5
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
This is FishChick
Unless you can tell me what ollie ollie oxen free means then i say is's ollie ollie infantry!!!!
|
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:07 PM
|
#6
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Seekonk
Posts: 1,796
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by BigFish
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! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:10 PM
|
#7
|
|
...
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
Posts: 2,411
|
How about  at the top of your lungs, "BIGFISH in the can" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:14 PM
|
#8
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
FishChick does not believe I am right! I know I am!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:20 PM
|
#9
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
|
yah...I am pretty sure it is oxen free....  |
I'm going where I'm going...
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:21 PM
|
#10
|
|
...
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
Posts: 2,411
|
I second that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 10:25 PM
|
#11
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Seekonk
Posts: 1,796
|
Bigfish right....FishChick Wrong  Its def Oxen free |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2005, 11:37 PM
|
#12
|
|
"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
|
i'll fourth that.
oxen free
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 12:10 AM
|
#13
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
|
oxen free 
sorry fishchick, you wrong  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 12:28 AM
|
#14
|
|
Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
|
Another Vote for Oxen Free...
I think "Ollie Ollie Infantry" is what the Contras in Nicaragua used to yell when they played. |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 02:12 AM
|
#15
|
|
Registered LUser
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mashpee, MA
Posts: 643
|
Though I'd like to stick with the girls' team, it is oxen free -- even in my day, which was pretty recently.
|
The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. ...Wait a minute, my work IS fishing. Sweet.
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 06:15 AM
|
#16
|
|
No Shorts On
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bassachusetts
Posts: 1,109
|
Oxen Free or In come free.....I still use that when I'm fishing  |
Bob Thomas
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 07:49 AM
|
#17
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
Posts: 1,362
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
Another Vote for Oxen Free...
I think "Ollie Ollie Infantry" is what the Contras in Nicaragua used to yell when they played. |
Now thats funny |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 08:46 AM
|
#18
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
|
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  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 08:51 AM
|
#19
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
|
I remember both....prolly a city thing
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 09:00 AM
|
#20
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
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!  Thanks for your help all! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 09:12 AM
|
#21
|
|
Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
|
In come free
|
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 01:59 PM
|
#22
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
|
Olly olly entrance free. 
At least that's how i remmeber it. |
Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2005, 02:23 PM
|
#23
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 06:50 AM
|
#24
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Plymouth
Posts: 64
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 10:10 AM
|
#25
|
|
........
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
|
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
---------------------------------------------------------------
and an even better explanation is
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 10:46 AM
|
#26
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
|
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.
|
Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 11:02 AM
|
#27
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
|
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!
|
LETS GO BRANDON
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 11:31 AM
|
#28
|
|
Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
|
phrase
Olly (slang for all) Olly in free.........
Meaning you didn't get caught by whoever was it.
|
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 11:46 AM
|
#29
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Raven
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
---------------------------------------------------------------
and an even better explanation is
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
|
Yep... told ya that on page 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2005, 04:53 PM
|
#30
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
|
I'm freakin' confused now.....  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:46 AM.
|
| |
Linear Mode
