Did you have a term for "in your face" when you were a kid?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238356)
Walnut Creek, California
June 27, 2021 10:43pm CST
I just had a Facebook exchange with an old friend from Chicago. We used to play sports together (and against each other), and as I was driving home from an errand, my brain spontaneously went to ""in your face!"
"In your face!" was one of the (usually friendly) taunts we used to use when we drove past the other and scored a basket, or hit a home run off of the other's pitching.
He is a fellow musician (he plays bass) and we are in the process of exchanging videos. We haven't talked in person in literally decades.
In any case, I got to thinking about the taunts we used as kids. "In your face!" was big. So was "in your eye!" And then there was "psych!" and "umba psych!" I never did consider the etymology of these taunts in childhood days.
Can you remember taunts you used to use as kids and teens?
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
28 Jun 21
How about "Up your nose with a rubber hose?" Ha ha...that's so funny now that I remember we used to say that. Haven't thought about that in years.
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@Kouponkaren (5497)
• United States
29 Jun 21
@noni1959 Ah, so that's where it came from?!!!
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@noni1959 (13061)
• United States
28 Jun 21
If two of us said the same thing at the same time, we'd yell, "Psych!" and if it happened again, we'd said it with "you owe me a coke." We used "in your face!" when scoring something like pin ball, basketball etc. Then there was the "Pee Wee Herman" dance or the "Ace Ventura" dance when he was right along with the gorilla thumping of the chest. Yeah, I grew up weird.
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@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
28 Jun 21
I do that one to hubby. But I tell him its because he isnt number one right then 
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@Deepizzaguy (122305)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
28 Jun 21
I do not remember the term "In your face" when I attended school in Balboa Panama.
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@Deepizzaguy (122305)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
28 Jun 21
@TheHorse Yes we did. I remember in Little League a taunt that went "We want a pitcher, not a belly scratcher."
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@LindaOHio (222803)
• United States
28 Jun 21
I remember "Four eyes" and "Up your nose with a rubber hose".
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
28 Jun 21
Naa I never used it but I have used the local ones which I won't share here
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Jun 21
I can't remember ever taunting anyone as a child.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Jun 21
@TheHorse Perhaps, and perhaps it had more to do with the fact that I basically kept to myself as a child. When my older sister wanted to play house, she'd make me be the daddy, so after we had "breakfast" I'd hop on my tricycle and go to "work" and leave her to play with her dolls by herself.
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@TheHorse (238356)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Jun 21
@BarBaraPrz Nice! Yes, I usually made my little brother be the Indian.
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@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
28 Jun 21
A lot depended on who was together. But for a group of us girls it was byatch
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Jun 21
We made ourselves Italian and woold say What's the matter for your face?
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
28 Jun 21
honestly, i don't remember I am sure it was some goofy thing. I do remember when my kids started using the "talk to the hand cause the face don't care." but not what we used when I was a kid!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
28 Jun 21
@TheHorse i suspect when I was younger the retort used most often was do you want a knuckle sandwich?
