Slug-A-Bug

deckerp
deckerp Posts: 4,519 Member
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
I think we all probably played the game as kids. When you see a Volkswagen Beetle you call out "Slug-A-Bug" and punch someone in the shoulder. Actually we'd say the car's color too, like "Green Slug-A-Bug, No Returns" and then "wipe off" the slug we just gave someone or they could slug us back.

My kids and their friends say "Slug-Bug" not "Slug-A-Bug". I know it's not much of a difference but to me "Slug-Bug" just sounds stupid and is even harder to say. Their long version is "Slug-Bug, No Tag Backs".

I guess it's my fault for not teaching them to play the "right" way. They had to pick up bad habits on the streets from their friends. There's a lesson in there.

What does everyone else remember?
What do your kids say?

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  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    they have to call the color so its "red slug bug no tag backs" if they dont call the color they dont get credit. I dont remember ever playing that as a kid. but now if i am out to lunch with my coworkers I kick their a$$es everytime!
  • porcelain_doll
    porcelain_doll Posts: 1,005 Member
    I drive a yellow Bug and often wonder how many bruises on people's arms my presence on the road has caused........ lol......
  • ShellyMacchi
    ShellyMacchi Posts: 975 Member
    here it is 'punch buggy' *L*
  • sharidiane
    sharidiane Posts: 212 Member
    My kids play 'Slug-Bug' and 'Tweeter' so frequently that I find myself calling it out and punching the air even when I am in the car alone.
  • kiwi1855
    kiwi1855 Posts: 218 Member
    odd... my friends and I called it "punch buggy"... and it was "punch buggy *colour*, no returns"...
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    Our was always "punch buggy <color>, no punches back!". Long trips my family would throw down--by the end we looked like we had all fallen down a flight of stairs!
  • cafeteriagirl
    cafeteriagirl Posts: 267 Member
    we always called it punch bug lol
  • JoeB71
    JoeB71 Posts: 115 Member
    Back in '04 I never heard of it until a drive from NJ to Orlando. We took my Niece & while I was driving all the sudden she reaches from the back seat & nails me in the arm & yells "punch buggy yellow, no punch backs". At first I was surprised but when she explained I laughed. Needless to say my arm was pretty sore by the time we got to our destination.
  • _beachgirl_
    _beachgirl_ Posts: 3,865 Member
    We call it punch buggy or just "red" one for any type of volkswagon. My 10 year old is no longer allowed to sit in the front seat because I was getting seriously bruised from him!
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,141 Member
    We called PUNCH BUGGY...we may have said the color as well...probably did. I think a punch on the arm of your friend, too.
    That was a long time ago. When the street lights came on, it was time to come in.

    We also called KA-DIDDLE if we saw a car with only one headlight.

    Thanks for stirring memories!!

    Remember "Red Light - Green Light", "Statues", "Ollie Ollie Oxen Free"...tag, you're it.
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