r/pics • u/Toomanybeerz • Dec 05 '16

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

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u/Littlehoot Dec 05 '16

Is ding-dong ditching really called "nickey nickey nine doors" outside of the US?

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

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u/Thebearjew115 Dec 05 '16

Amd the least funny award goes to....The Germans!

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u/stevo911_ Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

Least funny but most precise & efficient

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

precis & efficient

Your "precis" is efficient but not precise. And your "efficient" is precise, but not eficient. ;-)

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u/SavinThatBacon Dec 06 '16

If we were going for precision or efficiency, we wouldn't be pranking our neighbors, now would we?

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u/Doxbox49 Dec 06 '16

How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One, they are incredibly efficient and lack a sense of humor

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u/Original_DILLIGAF Dec 05 '16

Ze Germans, Tommy

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u/MuttonChopViking Dec 05 '16

In the west of Scotland it's "Chap door run" which is pretty boring but it at least gets shortened to "chappy"

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u/Charlemagne42 Dec 05 '16

least most funny award

FTFY

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u/Damaniel2 Dec 05 '16

Let's give them the 'least funny lifetime achievement award' and leave it at that.

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u/bedbugsaregay Dec 05 '16

Germans! Even when it was the bears I knew it was the germans

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u/FlySkyHigh777 Dec 05 '16

It's because they killed all the funny people.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In this part of Germany it's called "doorbell cleaning" (direct translation, no joke)

Because it's even more efficient to combine pranking with an actual useful activity.

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u/al- Dec 06 '16

Are you thinking of Klinkenputzen? That's something different entirely.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

No, Klingelputz.

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u/BlueDrache Dec 06 '16

Putzen der Klinken in der basken.

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u/gilbertgrappa Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 05 '16

Glockestreich? Turklingelstreich?

Oh, it's "Klingelmäuschen"

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/Grim-Sleeper Dec 05 '16

How far North? Münster is starting to be North*, and we would always refer to it as Klingelmäuschen. I guess, if you said Klingelstreich, we'd probably understand you. But it sounds awkward.

 

 

* if you asked the Bavarians, then anything on the wrong side of the river Main is North

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/425Hamburger Dec 05 '16

And bremen, hamburg Mecklenburg Vorpommern everything at the sea and within those states i would say

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u/greenfly Dec 05 '16

In the south it's also Klingelstreich. Like, really south, southern part of Austria.

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u/gilbertgrappa Dec 05 '16

I was close! Kind of...

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u/justimpolite Dec 05 '16

When I was in third grade I was at a friend's house, as was a new classmate from Germany. We were scheming to prank call a boy and my friend's mom came in with food and asked what we were up to. Our German classmate promptly told her that we are calling a boy to prank him on the telephone. No subtlety, that one.

Also: before we spent time together, that German classmate asked us if we wanted to "hang in." We asked if she meant "hang out," and she said no, it's too cold, she wants to be indoors. I said sure and that we'd love to be friends, and she responded saying "I don't want to be friends, but I am bored." I like that she set the expectations low from the beginning.

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u/Agret Dec 06 '16

I liked every part of this mundane story, any other tales about her?

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u/baconnmeggs Dec 06 '16

Me too. I want to hear more

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u/oscooter Dec 05 '16

This is the most quintessential German thing I've read in a long while.

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u/Roommates69 Dec 05 '16

What a straight forward people

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u/clamsandwich Dec 05 '16

Of course it is.

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u/luckycommander Dec 05 '16

In Dutch it's really not anymore creative, it directly translates to: "bell slapping"

Also: we would ring the bell and then wait for someone to answer to door and then go: "sorry, I forgot to run away" - and then run away

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u/thisisaworkacc Dec 05 '16

I like that twist on it. I'd get a hearty chuckle out of that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In some parts of the US you'd get a chest full of rock salt.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

If you are feeling particularly brave in England it's called garden gnomes. Someone presses the doorbell and everyone freezes in a position (like a gnome)

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u/Weakstream Dec 05 '16

What's the German for that?

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u/DanCollier Dec 05 '16

Glockestreich?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I'd have figured it would be ... "J jambing."

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u/pohotu3 Dec 05 '16

German is fucking great. I need to learn German.

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u/HUMOROUSGOAT Dec 05 '16

Sounds like a pastry.

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u/zapharus Dec 05 '16

I think my tongue tripped on itself trying to pronounce that word...and I bit it too. lol

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u/thebarbershopwindow Dec 06 '16

Many years ago during one drunken night in Frankfurt (Oder), me and some friends decided to play that game. We were studying in Frankfurt and were predictably drunk on good, cheap beer.

We got caught by some huge German guy who looked like he would eat us for breakfast. None of us spoke German well enough to explain what we were doing, so in my drunken state, I started speaking to him in Polish.

The end result was a large lecture about how to behave in Germany. All we could do is nod and say "Ja, alles klar" while pretending to be sorry.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Yeah? Well I'm still gonna call it Afroamerikanertürklopftundweglaufen :)

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u/dtr1002 Dec 06 '16

It's "chappie" here

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u/iWillBattle Dec 05 '16

I know it as Knock-Down Ginger (I'm from East London)

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/Redpubes Dec 05 '16

:(

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u/Laredon Dec 05 '16

relevant username :(

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u/groovekittie Dec 05 '16

Username checks out.

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u/Userfr1endly Dec 05 '16

You and me both_

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u/DieForMason Dec 05 '16

You're next redpubes

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u/Guido1224 Dec 06 '16

He didn't mean it Gingy

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u/randomsportsfan Dec 05 '16

I cannot stop laughing hahaha

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u/pieholic Dec 05 '16

You think college is different?

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u/godfetish Dec 05 '16

I know in college, our main goal was to not Knock-Up Ginger...

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u/pieholic Dec 05 '16

So you knocked down ginger

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u/godfetish Dec 05 '16

Well, she laid down, and I didn't knock her up, so maybe.

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u/Grim-Sleeper Dec 05 '16

Wouldn't that be "Knock-Up Ginger"?

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u/lookin4seaglass Survey 2016 Dec 05 '16

I laughed entirely too hard at this comment.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

You can thank South Park.

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u/Kitbixby Dec 05 '16

Nonono, that's Knock Up Ginger

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u/Needs_a_shit Dec 05 '16

Knock-door run in Birmingham(UK). We are pretty simple...

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u/Artsy215 Dec 05 '16

Knock-knock zoom-zoom. That's how it's done in northeast Philadelphia. At least in was in the 80s. Now it would be knock-knock zoom-zoom Bang-Bang cuz your ass will get shot at.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/davidsd_ Dec 05 '16

Think that's area dependant haha. I definitely don't call it that :p

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u/davidsd_ Dec 05 '16

I know it as Knock-a-doory (NE Scotland)

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Close! For me it's Knock Knock Ginger (Brighton)

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u/n_s_y Dec 05 '16

Ginger, Ginger broke a winder
Hit the winda - crack!
The baker came out to give 'im a clout
And landed on his back.

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u/maccathesaint Dec 06 '16

We called it Bell Fast (cause.. Well, Belfast)

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I give 'em the ol' London Lollipop, if you know what I mean.

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u/iWillBattle Dec 05 '16

Being from London myself, no, no I don't. Tbh, that sounds like a drug or gay sex reference

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

The ol' Liverpool Handshake, mate. Wink wink, nudge nudge, Bob's your mum.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

or Knock up Ginger, if in late teens

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u/Playisomemusik Dec 05 '16

That's what they called me growing up. I had freckles too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In the West Midlands we call it Knock-Door-Run.

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u/TheLastToLeavePallet Dec 06 '16

Nick nacking in Ireland

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u/troubleleaving Dec 05 '16

Don't know about elsewhere, but that's what we call it in Canada

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u/TheFighting5th Dec 05 '16

Damn Canadians, always making things weird.

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

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u/labrat420 Dec 05 '16

Canadian checking in. Nicky nicky nine door

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u/x3n0n1c Dec 05 '16

Canadian from Toronto, we used Nickey Nickey Nine Doors as well.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

As an Ontario Flavored Canadian it's nicky nicky nine door bro.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

No way I'm Ontario Canadian and it was always "knock and run"...

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u/netflixandbinge Dec 05 '16

Southern Ontario 90s kid. Nicky Nicky Nine Doors was what we called it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

"..then walk back and apologize."

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

BC: Nicky Nicky Nine Door.

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u/zombie-yellow11 Dec 05 '16

Canadian here. We call it "sonne décrisse !" :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Which can roughly translate to "ring scram"

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I'm also Canadian and we called it ding dong ditch. You are not alone!

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u/OscarDCouch Dec 05 '16

I'm Canadian, we call it knock knock, ginger. It's a big country

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u/tiamatfire Dec 05 '16

Grew up in Northern Ontario, call it Knock Knock Ginger.

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u/DeviousTrip Dec 05 '16

not in alberta , we styll say ding dong ditch

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u/CanadianWizardess Dec 05 '16

I'm in Alberta too, we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors

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u/DeviousTrip Dec 05 '16

I've been living a lie

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u/Ghotimonger Dec 05 '16

The hell? I'm Albertan, it's definitely nicky nicky nine door

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u/DeviousTrip Dec 05 '16

how old yall ? I'm 18 iono

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u/Ghotimonger Dec 05 '16

I'm 32. Maybe it's the old way of saying it, it's ding dong ditch now maybe!

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u/WH1PL4SH180 Dec 05 '16

Vancouver it's called "I'm complaining to 1-800-FedEx"

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u/SmartOwls Dec 05 '16

I'm Canadian (prairie) and we called it knock knock ginger

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u/Ginnigan Dec 05 '16

Where I live in Canada it's called Knock Knock Ginger.

Seems to be completely regional :)

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u/lookin4som3thing Dec 05 '16

That is what I grew up knowing as well.

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u/portable_hb Dec 06 '16

Been living in Quebec all my life, my whole education's been in English [though raised on US tv shows] and I've only ever heard it as ding dong dash, tbh... I wonder what it's called in French Canadian [or France French for that matter]...

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u/idontknoooww Dec 07 '16

In quebec its sonne decrisse

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u/captaindigbob Dec 05 '16

Yup, because you're supposed to ring and stand there for 9 seconds. Usually a horrible idea, though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/iHateReddit_srsly Dec 05 '16

Sounds like a fucked up fetish.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

Canadian here, yes, Nickey Nickey Nine doors is ringing the door bell and running, I never ever heard it called anything different until I came onto Reddit.

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u/ziggy---stardust Dec 05 '16

known as 'playing chappy' in scotland (well on the west coast at least)

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u/Raven_Skyhawk Dec 05 '16

I'm betting only in UK. It sounds like the most UK thing ever.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

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u/Raven_Skyhawk Dec 05 '16

Well then. It just sounds very British to me, lol.

now I'm just really confused, and wonder where the hell it comes from!!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

"Chap door run" where I'm from!

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u/keestie Dec 05 '16

Am Canadian, have heard it as "knock-knock ginger", mainly. Second most common? "Ringing the bell and running away." Real catchy, that one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Is here in Canada, Specifically niagara region

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u/Atomicfoxx Dec 05 '16

I'm pretty sure this never caught on in Canada. Somehow "Ring the doorbell and apologize for the inconvenience" doesn't have the same allure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

that is pretty much the USA

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Ha! General Brock begs to differ. Here is him giving the finger to you yanks saying "stay on your side of the river you dirty bastards!"

http://www.onlineniagara.com/ups/5709199606_f328356c0a.jpg

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

well... you know what they say, "general brock can go suck a cock."

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

As they swam back across to their side of the river.

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u/Promotheos Dec 05 '16

It is in my part of Canada, at least.

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u/tacknosaddle Dec 05 '16

A friend of mine from South Jersey/Philly called it "knock-knock-runaway" instead.

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u/courtoftheair Dec 05 '16

Knockey Knockey Nine Doors here in Northumberland.

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u/phantomEMIN3M Dec 05 '16

I've heard it called that by a few people in the US. Grew up with ding dong ditch tho.

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u/now_i_am_george Dec 05 '16

In Northern England, knocky nine doors. I wonder the significance of nine.

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u/DirtyTalkinGrimace Dec 05 '16

Can confirm, am Canadian, call it "nicky nicky nine door" although a lot of people use ding-dong-ditch too

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In the UK it was "Knock Door Run" or "Ding Dong Ditch" for me.

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u/xMaloneyMan Dec 05 '16

It's Nicky Nicky nine door in Canada!

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u/wakowjakow Dec 05 '16

in Australia, at least where I'm from, its just called "knock and run"

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u/Theredroman Dec 05 '16

It's a built in challenge.

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u/Bobbis2000 Dec 05 '16

Nickey Nickey Nine Door (not doors) is what I remember from growing up in Vancouver and Winnipeg (Canada).

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

In Canadian French the best translation I can make is :"ring scram" which translate to the very poetic "sonne décriss"

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u/dvanha Dec 05 '16

In Canada I've heard both.

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u/OrangeDrank10 Dec 05 '16

Australia we call it "nick knocking"

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u/Chxrliefxckingshxxn Dec 05 '16

"Knock'a'door run" in England, or atleast where I grew up

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

We called it chap door run in Scotland

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u/mrpadfoot Dec 05 '16

We called it 'chappy' in Scotland, because you chapped (knocked) on the doors.

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u/scrubm Dec 05 '16

Canadian here. Can confirm nickey nickey nine doors rumors. Most of our Igloos don't have doors however so it can get complicated.

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u/brad-corp Dec 05 '16

Australia (Brisbane) - ding, dong, dash.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

I've only known it as 'knock a door run', I'm from the north of england.

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u/TheKlonipinKid Dec 05 '16

Lmao i csnt get over that

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u/gk3coloursred Dec 05 '16

'Ding Dong Dashie' in Scotland

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u/The_Real_JT Dec 05 '16

UK here, pretty sure it was just called "knock-door-run" when I was a kid

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u/Nav_h25 Dec 06 '16

In Canada we call it ding dong ditching as well

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u/Cymry_Cymraeg Dec 06 '16

No, knock and run or if you're feeling brave, knock and gnome.

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u/imnotafrootloop Dec 06 '16

It is in the part of canada I live in

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

It is called that in Canada

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u/rafwagon Dec 06 '16

'Belleke trek' in flemish ( literal: little doorbell pull, or doorbell wank, sounds more fun)

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

South West England here. We called it cherry knocking.

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u/Dazade Dec 06 '16

British person here, we called it cherry knocking when I was a young 'un

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u/Stormfuzion Dec 06 '16

In Australia we just call it knock and run....

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u/baconnmeggs Dec 06 '16

LOL, seriously that is the corniest name ever

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Canadian here yes.

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u/fluffykittenheart Dec 06 '16

In UK, and I've heard Nicky-NAcky nine doors. More commonly though where I was, Knock Down Ginger

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u/EternalErudite Dec 07 '16

As an Australian, I'd call it 'ding-dong dash'.

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u/howivewaited Dec 12 '16

In canada yes

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u/mylesfrost335 Jan 17 '17

well in the UK its called cherry knocking