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As kids and young teens in the 60's (in the New York/New Jersey area at least) there was a customary game we played called "Paddidle" where, if you saw a car coming with one headlight you had to yell "Paddidle!" or "No Paddidle", or the friend next to you could start punching your shoulder sequentially to "one Paddidle, two Paddidle,..." or just punch your shoulder a good one and say, "Your forgot to call Paddidle!" Evidently, though, this goes further back to the 50's and 40's and was played between boys and girls as a dating game, and if the girl didn't say "Paddidle" first the guy with her got a kiss. And sometimes, it seems, the (ahem) rewards were just a little better for truck and bus Paddidles as specified in the full breakdown of the game and it's history as per the word "Paddidle" on this amusing Wordwizard link:  http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=2422The Only WO'N!
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Ay, Consuelo ~ it's much more complicated than that... If you drop a spoon, a child is coming to visit. If you drop a fork, a woman is coming to visit. If you drop a knife, a man is coming to visit. If any of the aforementioned implements are dirty, it means they're going to come hungry, so you should be ready to feed them! Look at all the brain cells I've devoted to this stuff... 
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you had to yell "Paddidle!" or "No Paddidle", or the friend next to you could start punching your shoulder
And how did you decide which of you didn't say "Paddidle"?
Not unlike my burning question of Boston drivers concerning who of the two people involved actually made the eye contact.
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And how did you decide which of you didn't say "Paddidle"?Dunno, Faldage...in thinking back I'm confusin' myself, don't quite remember how it went. Praps the first person in a duo or group who saw the one-headlighted car yelled, "Paddidle!", and started punching on the nearest shoulder until "No Padiddle!" was called (usually just one good punch). I remember one of "the guys", who happened to be my best friend, had a technique of extending his middle knuckle and grinding it into your sinews. Since we palled around all the time, I remember saying, "Why don't these people fix their damned headlights, I'm tired of having a sore shoulder!" My buddy was the catcher on the high school baseball team so he had a pretty solid quick thrust there...got practice from pounding his mitt, I guess.  The Only WO'N!
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a technique of extending his middle knuckle and grinding it into your sinews
We called this a noogie (the "oo" pronounced like in cookie or good, not like in goon or dubloon), said the Boston driver.
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My mother taught us "Paddidle" years ago. But the way she tells it, when you were out on a date and one of you saw a one headlight car, you called "Paddidle". If it was the guy who called it first, he got to kiss the gal. But if the gal called it first, she could smack him. Gives a whole new feeling to the game, especially if it was a first or second date.
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Angel's got it right, except you don't say "Paddidle". The correct way to play is to say "Popeye". Then, regardless of who saw the one-headlit car first, the boy, not the girl, always gets the kiss. That's the rules down south.
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I remember playing Padiddle, but that reminds me of another game we played as young boys. Two boys would be walking along the street. Whenever one of them spotted a discarded Camel cigarette pack, he would pick it up and challenge the other boy, "Hits or cracks?" On the inside of the cigarette pack there was always a code consisting of capital H or C followed by a single-digit number. If the answer given was hits, and the code read, say, H3, the one who answered hit the other boy three times on the upper arm. If he guessed wrong, he received the hits or cracks. I have no idea how widespread this game was, or if indeed our group of young ruffians invented it. Somehow there seemed to be plenty of Camel packs to be found in those days.
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We called this a noogie (the "oo" pronounced like in cookie or good, not like in goon or dubloon), said the Boston driver.We used noogie too, Hyla. But that was when you got someone in a headlock and roughly rubbed their scalp with your knuckle, especially if they had a crew cut. The Only WO'N!
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