Official ProVari 3 Thread - P3 *PART 2*

[Pinggolfer]

We had lame toys compared to what came after us. We went to the public swimming pool or played baseball and football in the park throughout my childhood. Sometimes we had rock fights until the first kid went home bloody screaming for his mommy.

What boring lives we lived as kids. Now they come home from school, text, and play xbox or playstation.

 

[LittleBird]

Revenge, which didn't come for about another seven years, was pretty flippin' sweet. Almost forty years later, it still comes up. One of my proudest moments.

That's it? That's all you're gonna say?

 

[JohnD0406]

My wife left a bottle of organic essential oil next to my e-juice bottles. I wonder if she thinks I can vape it?

 

[Bronze]

When I was around 9 or so, one of my friends had a set of plastic army troops. Not the little ones you see now, his were about 4 inches tall. He had 2 full sets, one green and one brown, of perhaps 12 soldiers each in different poses. We would set up opposing camps and dig trenches and negotiate what other toys could be used (since I had horses, I had a calvary; he had those little parachute soldiers, but they never worked very well), then we would have a dirt clod/water balloon fight.

I think I could enjoy doing that now.

 

[Bronze]

That's it? That's all you're gonna say?

Yeah right? I wanna know the rest of the story.

 

[Bronze]

What boring lives we lived as kids. Now they come home from school, text, and play xbox or playstation.

Funny we rarely saw fat kids growing up.

 

[rbrylawski]

What boring lives we lived as kids. Now they come home from school, text, and play xbox or playstation.

Cept, we didn't think it was boring. Now kids get iPads at the age of 2. Really. There's a guy in my office who bought one of my iPads for his 2 year old daughter.

 

[The Ocelot]

Funny we rarely saw fat kids growing up.

Or kids with asthma.

 

[The Ocelot]

I think I could enjoy doing that now.

 

[jwbnyc]

There was always one crying little wuss in every crowd. Jeez - it's just a little rock...

We had two groups in my neighborhood. My age, and an older group about six years older. One time, the older kids tied us all up to trees and whipped us with branches.

Revenge, which didn't come for about another seven years, was pretty flippin' sweet. Almost forty years later, it still comes up. One of my proudest moments.

Anybody remember Coco-ring-alivio?

I don't even know how to spell it. nothing comes up on Google.

Hide and Seek with a twist, the twist being when you were spotted you were chased back to home base being beaten with belts if you were slow.

Then there was BuckBuck..

 

[dhaiken]

What boring lives we lived as kids. Now they come home from school, text, and play xbox or playstation.

All I had was a club & some stones.
And a stone tablet, hammer and chisel for school.

 

[jwbnyc]

My wife left a bottle of organic essential oil next to my e-juice bottles. I wonder if she thinks I can vape it?

 

[The Ocelot]

Anybody remember Coco-ring-alivio?

I don't even know how to spell it. nothing comes up on Google.

Hide and Seek with a twist, the twist being when you were spotted you were chased back to home base being beaten with belts if you were slow.

Then there was BuckBuck..

I never heard of any of those. Could you mean Ringolevio? I just found it in a search: Ringolevio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[jwbnyc]

I never heard of any of those. Could you mean Ringolevio? I just found it in a search: Ringolevio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's it. The aim was to hide and make it back to base where you would win, as the hiding force, and yell, "COCO RING ALIVIO!!" at the top of your lungs.

We pronounced it Aleeeeveeeeo.

Team with most returns to base wins.

I guess the belts were just our variation.

It did focus the mind.

 

[The Ocelot]

That's it. The aim was to hide and make it back to base where you would win, as the hiding force, and yell, "COCO RING ALIVIO!!" at the top of your lungs.

Team with most returns to base wins.

I guess the belts were just our variation.

It did focus the mind.

I still never heard of it. We did a lot of play acting games. Pretending to be characters we saw on TV, but putting them in different settings, like playing army with characters from Gilligan's Island. We also acted out sketches from Laugh-in, but I can't remember how that might have worked.

Most of the time we just explored. We lived in an apartment, in an area entirely of apartments, so we would come up with places to climb in, over, under - I can't believe I used to jump from the roof of one building onto another. It was just one place where the buildings were close together and we would only jump down from the taller one...but still. I was a fearless kid.

 

[ENAUD]

We used to play red rover red rover send .... on over

 

[jwbnyc]

I forgot the out part.. it's been a long time since playing... maybe I'm conflating two different games. We definitely had one involving belts though.

 

[DPLongo22]

Ringolevio was big in my 'hood. So yes, I most certainly do remember it.

 

[Pinggolfer]

I never heard of any of those. Could you mean Ringolevio? I just found it in a search: Ringolevio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Played it as a kid. Yes we did.

 

[Pinggolfer]

I guess with the era we grew up in there is a reason why we all gravitated to Provari. Simple, fun to use, and it works, just like our toys and games.