Play of the goatee

The play of the goatee is a Jeu Tradition nel that the Enfant S practice to two.

History

The play of the goatee is an alternative of a Board game called I grip you without laughing in which a player sitting with the front of an assembly underwent on behalf of a Master of the play of the successive pinchings on various parts of the face carried out with the inch and the coated index of lampblack. With each pinching, the Master of the play pronounced the sentence “I grip you without laughing”, and as soon as one of the members of the assembly had suddenly laughed at this make-up, it took to the sitted place becoming in its turn the “victim”.

grips It without laughing is at the origin of the attested expression.

Words of the counting rhyme

The rules of this play in fact are contained in the words of the counting rhyme:

I hold you, you hold me, by the goatee;
Le first of us two which will laugh will have a queer!

The words vary sometimes, in a tiny way, according to the French-speaking areas or countries . Thus, the passage us two is sometimes omitted. Moreover, “giflette” or “clapper” replaces “queer sometimes”, in order to avoid the reference to the one of the other directions of this word (a manner insulting to indicate a homosexual Homme ), while preserving the Rime.

In addition, the counting rhyme continues sometimes in the following way:

At the end of trois
One, two, three!

or:

One, two and three let us cross the bras
comme p' tits soldiers!

Popular culture

In 1961, in Astérix the Gallic , the first album of Cartoon of the series of the same name, Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo put in scene Asterix practitioner the play of the goatee with Marcus Sacapus.
In the film of 1979 I hold you, you hold me by the goatee , a Jeu televised offers money to the candidates who manage to gain with the play of the goatee. The Ritchie Family interprets one of the titles of the original soundtrack, the Goatee , which takes again the words of the counting rhyme on a music Disco.
In the Short-measuring of 2002 the Goatee , realized within the collective Kourtrajmé, two brothers regulate a conflict with the play of the goatee; young person, Barth, loses systematically.

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