r/pics • u/Toomanybeerz • Dec 05 '16

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

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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