Ding dong ditch
The only answer
FedEx calls it ‘Failed Delivery’.
That’s if they knock at all
Damn… It’s just called “Knock and Run” in Australia.
Does Australia finally have one thing we say completely normal?
Ding dong dash is what we called it in the Midwest, US.
Ireland : knockadolly
In the US south they use a racial slur, because of course
Spent some childhood in coastal Mississippi and I can attest this is the case
Mhm, midwest US and N***** Knocking was what we were told it was called, because of course.
It became Ding Dong Ditch once we grew up a little.
Yeah this was my experience. People used the slur n***** knockin’ through all of my childhood 70s and early 80’s but as a young adult in the 90s it was doorbell ditching.
Honky Hookin’
Not sure what OP’s mom has to do with anything
Rural southern person here we called it Knock, Knock, Dash how is that racist?
Your experience does not disprove mine, as a fellow southerner
it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)
I grew up in a very bigoted Southern town that was still firing people from schools for being gay in the 2000s, and they still frown on interracial marriage. The N Word was a regular part of life growing up.
We called it Ding Dong Ditch.
It apparently used to be called ni**er knocking. I’m in the rural south too, and I’ve always known it as dong, dong, ditch.
But then again my mom was arrested at a civil rights rally (on the side of black people being equal), so my upbringing might have something to do with it.
Belletje Lellen
That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL
FORCEY FUN TIME, jesus christ XD
This couldn’t be written by a brit, dont they call gravy brown sauce and white sauce?
No, brown sauce is brown sauce.
I don’t see cold on the cob, which is my favorite.
I prefer being american than talking like this lowk 😭🙏
It’s why there are so many independence day celebrations dotted around the world.
Canada, we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors.
Ding Dong Ditch in Surrey BC, 80s
My dad called it “cut the shit” but… on second thought that might not have been a name
I like this one
Huh, never heard that one. My teacher once said “arrêtez donc les conneries avec les sonnettes” so we called it “connettes” but I’m fairly sure that was just a handful of grade 4s, that one year.
Tolkien’s first draft
It’s cherry knocking and all of you are fucking heathens for disagreeing with me
What if you buggin and knock too hard, Mary?
I regret to inform Gemma that calling it Chappy is also some “Charles Dickens shite”
FYI chap is Scots for knock. So it’s essentially called Knocky. That ain’t very Dickens.
Dictionary proof: https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/chap_v1
A door prank?
Obviously it’s Ding Dong Dash.
No, it’s Ding Dong Ditch!
I’m Gen X and it was always Ding Dong Ditch.
I’m genx it was always Nicky nine doors. Ain’t no one in the country have doorbells in the 70s.
I agree modern USA variant is Ding Dong Ditch, however it couldn’t have always been that as the game predates doorbells. What was dinging and what was dongin for those early trailblazers?
The name came first, then they invented doorbells to match,
Bells are quite old. Maybe people sometimes targeted houses that used them instead of door knockers or just knocking and called it Ding Dong Ditch back then too! probably not tho.
I’ve lived in the USA for my whole life and only ever heard the dash variant to my memory.
I bet you also call all soda a “cola”.
I want a god damn literacola!
I bet you call all fizzy wizzy slurp slurps “soda”
Found the Brit
I live at the crux between “soda pop” and “coke” as generic names for soda.
Of course
Knock Up the Neighborhood?
I think that’s a different game involving more than a few poor decisions by all parties…
Yeah I would find it comical if kids picked out houses with ring door bells, walked up yelled “Ding Dong” and then just ran away.
I would laugh every time I saw someone having to check their phone at work and just have a kid yelling at them.
About 3 months ago a teenage girl, like 13 or so, strolled up to the door, pushed the button, and bolted. Like no attempt to be stealthy, wasn’t even moving speedy until the press. My cam records 24/7 so it’s not like it only records once pressed, the camera screen lights up when you approach, Home Assistant greets you at the same time. You know that it knows that you are present, painfully clearly.
I dunno if getting older is accelerating it, but damn kids these days are dumb as hell. At least scope out places without cams…
Maybe she wanted to ask something and then just got scared?
I remember as a kid we were playing hide and seek over at a friend’s house. Someone got all upset because he said one of us went into his garage and shut the garage door. None of us would have done that, but I do wish that guy would have had a camera so he would have had evidence that no one was in his garage or doing anything on his property.
I have a feeling a family member shut it or he just forgot and when he saw a kid not even in his yard running around he thought he still had it open and blamed it on “hooligans.”
Camera would have been exceptionally rare back then though… That had to be 97?
Nah, to reach the button you have to trigger both the screen and the greeting, and even if you are quick there’s still enough time to pause and think. I can also see my closest neighbor’s door, which would be the closest/fastest alternative if you needed something but were startled; they went the other direction, the shortest route to break line of sight, with no hesitation after the press.
Canadian boomer here. We called it Nicky Nicky Nine door when we did it.
Please get off my continent
Sorry. I don’t understand? What did I do to warrant you telling me to get off this continent?
Ah yes, the jolly sport of Rap, Tap, Flee!
As someone who grew up down south in the UK, it’s “knock down ginger”
I have no idea who ginger is and what they have to do with prank knocking
If you rearrange some of the letters in ginger you get the hate crime version of the name from the US South.
Hmm… That didn’t seem right to me, so I looked it up
The “knock, knock, ginger” is linked to a 1967 Childhood in Poetry book by John Mackay Shaw. Behold these glorious verses:
Ginger, Ginger broke a winder, Hit the winda—crack! The baker came out to give ‘im a clout, And landed on his back.
However, we’ve also seen the game called knock down ginger.
This may actually be more accurate, as “knock down” is a term dating to the late 18th century. It refers to knocking on a door by pulling the door knock striker.
Plus, ginger was a common term then as it meant to “ginger up” (move smartly). So, knock the door, leg it in timely fashion.
https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/
That feels a bit more like it to me, though surprised it’s not even a century old, I figured it was Victorian
I’m from pretty much bang centre of the UK and we called it Postman’s Knock.
Do you want to know why? Well I’ve no fucking idea. My brother called it that so I called it that.
Uh… Who is going to tell him?
We called it “Knock a Door Ginger”. Like you, never understood the Ginger significance
Likely some casual irish racism in a similar vein to the Southern US calling it n* knocking, although in my town no one ever called it that, it was ding dong ditching
