Re: When I was a kid in the 80's we used to have a game called "Smear the Queer."
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Date: February 01, 2023 02:07AM
Walli Wrote:
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> Smear the queer was a real game in the late 50's
> and 60s it was played in places the teachers at
> recess could not see against a wall, older kids
> organized the game and younger ones were sucked in
> to take the beating of the fast ball hitting them
> .The balls were those red wrinkled covered rubber
> balls that schools had. If a kid caught the ball
> the thrower was out and took their place to be
> smeared, and the kid got to throw the ball , but
> the game was rigged because the older kids always
> smeared the younger ones .I was the younger kid
> and I never could catch the fast balls the older
> kids hurled at me giving me real beatdown, I was a
> loser and probably why I voted Democrats later on
> for so many years until Trump came on the scene
> when I found out that rigged political games were
> ran by Democrats so I voted for Trump twice
We played "smear the queer" in 70's and 80's too but it wasn't a ball game. We just chased and tackled the "queer" and pinned him to the ground. It was kind of like tag, but in reverse. Instead of one kid chasing everyone else, it was everyone chasing the kid who was "it". Once you tackled the queer, you'd choose a new one.