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Beetle, Daddy Beetle

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by Gadgetdad, Jul 8, 2007.

  1. Gadgetdad

    Gadgetdad New Member

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    How many of you remember the game of Beetle, Daddy Beetle? When I was a kid on a long drive we played this game to pass the time. One point for a Beetle (VW of course!) and five points for a VW Bus.

    After reading on the thread "How many Prius did you see today", and wanting to keep track, I wondered if a new game could start with the Prius count. I think the Super White ones should be worth more than the other colors though..... B)

    Lee
     
  2. Godiva

    Godiva AmeriKan Citizen

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    1 point for a Prius 2nd gen.
    5 points for a Touring
    10 points for a classic 1st gen.
     
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    About ten years ago when my son was in middle school the game he and his friends played was Punch Buggy. If you are the first to see an old Volkswagen and call it, then you can punch the other kid in the arm. The point system (to the best of my recollection) was:
    1. beetle
    2. beetle convertible
    3. beetle bus
    4. beetle bus pickup
     
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    Godiva AmeriKan Citizen

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RobertG @ Jul 8 2007, 02:03 PM) [snapback]475120[/snapback]</div>
    You allowed them to punch each other?
     
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    We call this game "Slug Bug". Yes, the kids slug each other but they don't seem to mind it. However, it got on my nerves and I would always yell at them for hitting each other too hard. After I bought my car in January I started yelling "Orca!" whenever I spotted a Prius, just to annoy my kids. I think the Prius is kind of shaped like an orca and wonder if it could be painted to look like one.
     
  6. Gadgetdad

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(geeky teacher @ Jul 8 2007, 09:06 PM) [snapback]475325[/snapback]</div>
    I think the Beetle game migrated to the slug bug when more Beetles were on the road. I like your Orca idea! I have wanted to take black electrical tape and turn my sharkfin antenna into a black-tipped sharkfin antenna.

    I'm seeing more and more Prii on the roads all the time. I can tell by the license plate numbering that many are newer than mine! :eek:
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(geeky teacher @ Jul 8 2007, 09:06 PM) [snapback]475325[/snapback]</div>
    Ours were beavers for VW bug, 1 point
    Double Beaver, for bus, 2 points,
    tripple, very rare pickup, 3 points.

    I like this game better than the modern "Slug Bug".

    Onother one was the pasing game. when we passed on a two lane road, it took a couunt of 30 seconds. So us kid decided to start counting to 30 at any random time on blind curves or hills. If we made it to 30 before a vehicle came the other way, we lived. If a vehicle came, we died. If one of us started tht game and a Semi or a bus came along, we all LOL. If a large paice of farm machinery showed up coming the other way, we ROFLOL (seatbelts were optional back then becuase people didn't play the passing game for real like they do now.

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 7 2007, 11:45 PM) [snapback]474980[/snapback]</div>
    For the Prius version, it should be kept simple:
    Standard Prius = 1 point,
    Silver Pine Mica Prius = 2 points.
     
  8. Godiva

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NoMoShocks @ Jul 9 2007, 12:39 AM) [snapback]475364[/snapback]</div>
    Black Prius = 5 points.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 8 2007, 10:45 PM) [snapback]475367[/snapback]</div>
    I will only agree to this if it is a Black Prius with Cool Chicks in it.
     
  10. Sufferin' Prius Envy

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 8 2007, 01:03 PM) [snapback]475147[/snapback]</div>
    Yeah.
    And they all grew up to become mass murderers and generally maladjusted adults. :rolleyes:

    Some were even allowed to call their siblings and friends, GASP . . ."stupid doody head." :eek:
    Most of the recipients of those taunts commit suicide.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 8 2007, 11:01 PM) [snapback]475376[/snapback]</div>
    OK, on a lighter note,
    Quadruple Prius = 20 points
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    mcbrunnhilde Opera singin' Prius nut!

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 8 2007, 10:45 PM) [snapback]475367[/snapback]</div>
    Salsa Red Prius = Priceless

    :)
     
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    I wouldn't play that game in San Francisco. Way too many Prii out here. Last night I pulled up to a light and had 4 others within 4 cars of me.

    I swear they are breeding.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gadgetdad @ Jul 8 2007, 10:31 PM) [snapback]475362[/snapback]</div>
    Well, I guess that explains this YouTube video . . .

    Prius Punch!
    :lol:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4R99pAnKWI
     
  15. Gadgetdad

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 18 2007, 02:07 PM) [snapback]481199[/snapback]</div>
    Goes to show there is nothing new under the sun...!

    Thanks for the link.

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    My sons and his friends would go with Punch Buggy - no punch backs. After seeing someone post on this board a ways back I now annoy my husband with me-seeus-a-prius - and black pris are good for 2 punches.