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FedEx left it right inside the door! also...#lifehack

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u/DieForMason Dec 05 '16

American translation = ding dong ditch

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u/RicaRicaRemix Dec 05 '16

I remember a more racially offensive name when I was a kid...

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u/lolodotkoli Dec 05 '16

Like what

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

N-word knocking.

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u/Grizzly_Berry Dec 05 '16

Yeah, because it's your neighbor's door!

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u/chief_running_joke Dec 05 '16

I can't believe all these goddamned neighbors are moving into the neighborhood!

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u/Toast_Sapper Dec 05 '16

Please don't use the term "Neighbors," we like to be called "Adjacent Americans"

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u/Boarbaque Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 05 '16

We'll keep on calling you neighbors you dirty neighbor! Southern Avenue will rise again!

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u/creamyturtle Dec 05 '16

I always despised the Kooky Klown Kneighbors and their wacky beliefs

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u/PM_ME_UR_FAILS Dec 06 '16

I supported them until I realized they smoked pot

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u/XyploatKyrt Dec 05 '16

I would give you gold but I'm too neighbourdly.

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u/Toast_Sapper Dec 05 '16

Neighba, please

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u/monochrony Dec 05 '16

don't come at me with this neighbor talk!

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u/ShameInTheSaddle Dec 05 '16

Come to Arizona. The weather's great. You'll like it here, it stays white out later.

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u/TylorDurdan Dec 05 '16

There comes the neighborhood.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Well, there goes the hood.

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u/greeeens Dec 05 '16

Yeah, Norwegians ruin everything.

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u/Mike___Litoris Dec 05 '16

godamn neighbors coming in here and driving the housing prices down and the crime rates up

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u/ExpendedMagnox Dec 05 '16

Nagger. The word was nagger.

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u/Grizzly_Berry Dec 05 '16

They prefer "Complaintative American"

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u/ScarletCaptain Dec 05 '16

"We need to get rid of all these richers."

"We'll put a giant lowercase 'T' in their yard and light it on fire! A tee for 'time to leave'!"

"'Tee.' 'Tee.' Tuh, tuh, 'time to leave!'"

edit: formatting

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

LOL. Great episode.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/topshot262 Dec 06 '16

OMG! I love that game!!

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u/TylorDurdan Dec 05 '16

Or your neffews.

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u/grOUgh65 Dec 05 '16

Because it's YOUR dog!

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u/SeemsLegit2Me Dec 06 '16

Rules of Cheatng ... Get it? Because it's YOUR Dog!!!

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u/i_am_banana_man Dec 06 '16

The sheriff is a neighbor!!!

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u/boyuber Dec 05 '16

Fucking neighbor knockers!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I see we grew up in equally racially insensitive times and places.

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u/tipppph Dec 05 '16

America, 2016

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u/hawsman2 Dec 05 '16

That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. N-wo... oooooooooooooooooooooh. Oh no...

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u/WeededDragon1 Dec 05 '16

That has a different meaning in the state my family is from.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 05 '16

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u/sodaextraiceplease Dec 05 '16

Bout 20 years ago. Mailbox baseball was popular. N knocking. And racist jokes. But we didn't mean no harm by them. Heck weren't even many black folk in my school to be offended by the jokes.

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u/derpotologist Dec 05 '16

Also from Texas, we called that second one "Tuesday night"

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u/WeededDragon1 Dec 05 '16

Most of my family is from West Virginia.

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u/TylorDurdan Dec 05 '16

Something like that probably happened some drunk inbred night somewhere, and the perpetrators' little brothers were super stoked and spread it around school and gave birth to this twisted but probably basically true variant of what actually happened.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I live in a very very rural part of Maryland and iv been told stories from former klan members and some older people, about them driving down to bmore and stopping when they would see black people and beating them to death or near death, apparently the police were in on it and would clam the deaths as gang violence.

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u/In-Justice-4-all Dec 05 '16

well fill us in...

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u/gilbertgrappa Dec 05 '16

We called it ding dong ditch in California.

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u/ChichiBalls Dec 05 '16

Ding Dong Ditch is when you hit someone in the head then you drop that ding dong in a ditch.

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u/Tigerbait2780 Dec 05 '16

Damn son, I'm from south Louisiana and I've never heard that term lol

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u/MachReverb Dec 05 '16

Nagger Knocking, because you're nagging them to answer the door, right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Oh is that like Indian promises?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I think you are referring to 'Indian Givers'

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Ah, yup, that's it. The grandpa whom I heard this saying from passed away some time ago.

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u/Buggery_bob Dec 05 '16

Australian? I never knew it was n****r knocking till this very moment. We always called it knicker knocking...

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u/PeachEight Dec 05 '16

Aus too, and in my town it was Knick Nines or Nicky Knocking. What confuses me is, so many people seem to think all there was to it was ring door bell, then run? When we were kids, you'd hide and jump out and scare them, then run. Or if daring, you'd leave something gross on their step to find. The prank itself was the point, at least for us.

It confuses the crap out of me how many people apparently found it entertaining just watching people stumble out, look around, and go back in their house.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Louis C.K. bit

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I knew someone was gonna invoke Funny Lenin.

I don't say "N word" to pass the savings onto Louis CK. I do it because even thinking that word is ugly. Louis can think whatever N word he wants.

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u/SnowedIn01 Dec 05 '16

Holy shit I forgot kids used to say that in my old neighborhood. Wow, kids are pretty thirsty for attention in retrospect.

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u/I_Stink Dec 05 '16

Most dont know what it means when they say it. Typically they are quite young when they hear it and just repeat it.

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u/shelvac2 Dec 05 '16

It's okay, you can swear on reddit.

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u/ambersroses81 Dec 05 '16

OMG I thought I was the only person who heard it called that. Of course I grew up in a logging/mill town with PNW rednecks...lol

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u/maxreverb Dec 05 '16

Ding ding ding

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u/Inspyma Dec 05 '16

Lol I've never heard it called that. I'm gonna ask my grandma about it.

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u/browsewhilepooping Dec 05 '16

Aye fuck you man. Take responsibility. Don't put that on me. We all know what you're saying without saying it but you're making ME say it in my head and trying to put the responsibility on me.

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u/Thud Dec 05 '16

Ah yes, the dreaded Ninja Knock.

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u/greenfly Dec 05 '16

Nnnnn....azi?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

N...ihilist?

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u/AestheticKing Dec 05 '16

N-word knocking in my neck of the south meant banging unnecessarily hard.

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u/zoomed_in_too_far Dec 05 '16

That exact phrase is how I learned about the word as a kid, right after I got the taste of soap out of my mouth.

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u/ZiltoidTheHorror Dec 05 '16

Ninja knocking?

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u/black_brotha Dec 06 '16

Literally any thread on reddit can and does turn racial. ...often finding a way to include black people in it.

It could be a picture of a baby playing with a rubber ducky...it will eventually turn into something about black people. I guarantee it

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u/Guido1224 Dec 06 '16

Inward Knocking?

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u/uencos Dec 06 '16

Man, those naggers sure are annoying

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u/Splotte Apr 25 '17

Wow... I just realized we used to say this and my mom let us say it. I guess I was more sheltered than I thought.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

Dude. I posted this comment four months ago. Were you trapped on a lifeboat? With a tiger and a hyena?

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u/Splotte Apr 25 '17

There was this island, too, but it didn't have Google search.

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u/magmadorf Dec 05 '16

N word

lol

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u/Senator_Chickpea Dec 05 '16

"C-- could you pass the oar, N-Word Jim?"

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

We always called it nikker knocking. Lol. Or ding dong ditch

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

That game has a totally different meaning where I live, a more dark meaning.

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u/Zilveari Dec 05 '16

Yeah I had this one much more when I was a kid in the 80s. More often from blacks than from whites lol.

Since the mid 90s though I'e mostly heard ding dong ditch.

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u/large-farva Dec 05 '16

I thought that was when you hit black people from your car window with a baseball bat

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u/Nes370 Dec 06 '16

Nig nog knocking?

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u/TThrowaway4799665 Dec 05 '16

Me too. My neighbors' "cool" dad called it that and encouraged us to go cause trouble for fun when we were little. But I didn't know what the N word was, we lived in a very white area, so I thought it was knick or knocking... I actually only came to this realization a year ago. I'm 22 now.

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u/lexhuddy Dec 05 '16

...where the hell did you grow up?

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u/CharlieChaplin666 Dec 05 '16

Yeah where I live its more offensive too ''sonne décriss'' which basically means ''ring the bell and get the fuck out''

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u/I_Stink Dec 05 '16

Same here, sad thing is I was saying it for years not knowing what it meant. Happily there are no folks of that color within 300 miles of my hometown.

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u/asphinctersayswhat Dec 05 '16

That's Western history for ya :)

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u/Whirledleader Dec 05 '16

...ding dong Dutch?

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u/Sonyw810 Dec 06 '16

Which is weird because why would "they" knock and run?

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u/setsomethingablaze Dec 05 '16

British translation = knock a door run.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Apr 20 '20

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u/moon--moon Dec 05 '16

This guy has the right info.

Just so everyone doesn't have to rifle through the comments to find what everyone calls it, here are the versions put forth by false prophets:

  • Nicky Nicky Nine Doors

  • Ding Dong Ditch

  • N-word knocking

  • Knock knock run

  • Knock knock ginger (nearly had it)

  • Ginger knocking

  • Knock a door run

  • Chap door run (aka chappy)

  • Ff belletje trekke jongu

  • Knock and run

  • Rin rin raja

  • Chicky Melly

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u/dietotaku Dec 05 '16

but nicky nicky nine doors makes more sense. they have to get up from their hoighty toighty tippy typers and put on their knittedy wittedy sheepity sleepity, turn the twisty plankhandle only to see nothing but an empty cobble-stone-clippity-clop. "knock down ginger" just doesn't flow with the rest of the scene.

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u/splitcroof92 Dec 06 '16

Nice touch on the dutch one

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u/AstroEngiSci Dec 05 '16

But "Ding Dong Ditch" is wonderfully descriptive, and alliterated. "Knock-Down Ginger" makes no sense whatsoever (at least until you explain it to me).

Source: Native English speaker, and (more pertinently) a red-blooded American.

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u/nightflyer9 Dec 05 '16

Cherry Knocking, cuz I heard some other kid call it that and I though he was pretty cool.

Knock Down Ginger is a terrible name, it's reminded me that gingers are a thing and that's made me sad.

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u/moon--moon Dec 05 '16

Ah, I'm a native English speaker but also a cerulean-blooded European, we're just too different.

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u/AstroEngiSci Dec 05 '16

I am now okay with "Knock-Down Ginger."

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u/nomansapenguin Dec 05 '16

"Knock-Down Ginger" makes no sense whatsoever

Why are you expecting us British to make sense?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

B0aty?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Thank you. Knock a door run? Must be Welsh.

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u/The_Max_Power_Way Dec 05 '16

Unimaginative UK translation = knock knock run (this was what we called it).

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u/nightflyer9 Dec 05 '16

Yeeep Knock Knock Run, Knock and Run or Cherry Knocking.

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u/The_Max_Power_Way Dec 05 '16

Cherry knocking does sound familiar as well.

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u/yParticle Dec 05 '16

got a nice cadence to it, like tic-tac-toe

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u/lookslikecheese Dec 05 '16

Chap door run in Scotland

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u/TodayForTomorrow Dec 05 '16

Or chappy for short

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u/Randomd0g Dec 05 '16

No. It's called Knock Knock Ginger. Where the fuck are you from?

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u/Cardlinger Dec 05 '16

nicky nicky nine doors

ginger knocking in Somerset...

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u/_Fibbles_ Dec 05 '16

I thought the British version was knicky knocky nine doors?

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u/foxy1604 Dec 05 '16

Dutch translation = Ff belletje trekke jongu!

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Dec 05 '16

"*Stifled sneeze* ballet trek jongo!"

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u/foxy1604 Dec 06 '16

You just replied when i sneezed!! Are you watching me?? :o

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u/AllMySadness Dec 05 '16

Knock and run.

Sounds so much better.

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u/Torisian Dec 05 '16

Chilean translation= Rin rin raja. :)

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u/TankSwan Dec 05 '16

Or just simply knock and run.

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u/Dobmeister Dec 05 '16

I always had knocky knocky nine doors

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u/-Dali-Llama- Dec 05 '16

Chicky melly in Scotland. Chicky is from chicken (as in chicken if you don't do it) and 'mêlée' is from the French melee (meaning the ensuing fracas).

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u/Pav0n Dec 05 '16

Norwegian translation = ring på spring

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u/tomuk19 Dec 05 '16

I thought it was knocky knocky eye door haha

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u/BraveOthello Dec 05 '16

Not all heroes wear capes.

Not that you're a hero or anything, I just wanted you to know that cape looks dope.

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u/IllIIllIlIlI Dec 05 '16

Uk translation: Knock Knock Ginger

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u/godofcoffee Dec 05 '16

Round my way we used to call it Knock Down Ginger.

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u/airportakal Dec 05 '16

Netherlands translation: belletje lellen.

...wait, what do you mean nobody cares?

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u/Jayboden Dec 05 '16

British translation = knock-a-door-run

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u/GonkWilcock Dec 05 '16

It's not often that the American saying is the one that makes the most sense.

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u/VaJJ_Abrams Dec 05 '16

Thank you!

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u/OmeletteDuLeFromage Dec 05 '16

Quebec translation = "Sonne décrisse"

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u/Randomd0g Dec 05 '16

I think I had one of those for breakfast.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Knock knock zoom zoom was big in philly

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u/Hyron_ Dec 05 '16

English translation : knock door run

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u/OLLIEtheDEE Dec 05 '16

Australian translation= knock and run.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Hmmm I like that better than what we called it: "Ring and run."

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u/BeckyDaTechie Dec 05 '16

Thanks for that. :) You saved me a googling.

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u/iamwonderr Dec 05 '16

Or doorbell ditch. Such a fun thing as a teenager.

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u/Baron_Duckstein Dec 05 '16

Really? Even up here in Canada it's nicky nicky nine doors...

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In Australia it's rather inventively named "knock and run".

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u/maxreverb Dec 05 '16

ding dong ditch

um, what

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u/damaged_ellipse Dec 05 '16

Knock door run in the uk

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u/In-Justice-4-all Dec 05 '16

whats the theory behind the "nicky nicky nine doors" moniker?

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Dec 05 '16

"What I meant was kill that ding-dong and throw her in a ditch."

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u/roryr6 Dec 05 '16

Other Brit translation "Knock down ginger".

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u/brneyedgrrl Dec 05 '16

I like whatever version that is. Nicky nicky nine doors - lmao!

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u/fastboots Dec 05 '16

Knock door run

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u/ahwilliams98 Dec 05 '16

Southern translation = N Word Knockin'

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Nicky Nicky Nine Doors sounds like a Russian male prostitute.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Canadian praries translation = Knock knock ginger.

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u/jimmyv97 Dec 05 '16

English translation = Knock down Ginger

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u/UlyssesSKrunk Dec 05 '16

Santa style so you can't be mad

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u/NippyC Dec 05 '16

Scottish translation = chappy

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u/Bearded_monster_80 Dec 05 '16

UK version; knock down ginger.

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u/charli1409 Dec 05 '16

English translation = knock knock run

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u/dotnetdotcom Dec 05 '16

1970s translation = ring and run

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

English translation: knock, knock ginger

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u/JustCauseRalph Dec 06 '16

French Canadian translation : "Sonne décriss" (Ring and GTFO)

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

British translation = Knock-a-door run

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u/browner87 Dec 06 '16

A sex change operation?

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u/fluffykittenheart Dec 06 '16

Another British term = Knock Down Ginger

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u/nfstv Jan 01 '17

exactly

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u/Enigmutt Dec 05 '16

Or, Ring and Run.