The game where you take something from the weakling and toss it over their heads back and forth ...
I don't see him quite at the wedgie stage, and certainly not hitting or stealing.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Jan 08, 2005 9:04:20 am PST #4512 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SailAweigh - Jan 08, 2005 9:06:49 am PST #4513 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The game where you take something from the weakling and toss it over their heads back and forth ...
Ah, in the midwest, the delightfully plebian named "keep away."
ION, I had a dream with you in it last night, ita. We went shopping. With a girl named Doula, who had very pretty cornrows that I wanted for myself. I have no idea what prompted this dream.
DCJensen - Jan 08, 2005 9:44:46 am PST #4514 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now I'm earwormed with the Rutles singing "Piggy in the Middle."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 08, 2005 1:43:58 pm PST #4515 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Given the Lord of the Flies connotations, that can't be good.
beathen - Jan 08, 2005 2:11:02 pm PST #4516 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
The game where you take something from the weakling and toss it over their heads back and forth ...
Ah, in the midwest, the delightfully plebian named "keep away."
I always thought it was called "monkey in the middle"
Nora Deirdre - Jan 08, 2005 4:45:05 pm PST #4517 of 10000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
"monkey in the middle"
That's what I remember it being called too.
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2005 5:44:30 pm PST #4518 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A quick google suggests it's a Commonwealth thing.
Lee - Jan 08, 2005 5:45:23 pm PST #4519 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I've always called it keep away myself.
brenda m - Jan 08, 2005 5:55:12 pm PST #4520 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Monkey in the middle to me is a particular variety of keep away. Two (or more) tormentors, one object, tossed back and forth over the head of the monkey. Keep away is more of a free-for-all.
Lilty Cash - Jan 08, 2005 6:12:51 pm PST #4521 of 10000
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
See, in these parts, 'monkey in the middle' was more of an actual game. 'Keep Away' was when you had someone's stuff and were actually trying to, well, you know.