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Geographical Differences

October 18th, 2005 · 4 Comments

So here’s the question…is it:

Two, four, six, eight, in, out, on, off, twisties, twisties, diamonds.

Or is it:

Two, four, six, eight, in, out, in, spread, in, on.

Now, besides the fact that the whole “spread” move makes me a little uncomfortable, where’s the degree of difficulty there? I mean those twisties’ll getcha. And I can’t tell you how many times, even at the easy “ankle” level, those diamonds screwed me up. (Don’t even get me started about doing them at the knee or — gasp — waist level. God, I’m getting an anxiety attack just thinking about it.) I mean, another “in” and “on”? That’s nothing. Maybe, in addition to being pansy-ass motorists, the sunny weather of SoCal has lead you all to be pussy Chinese jump ropers too.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • amy // Oct 19, 2005 at 8:56 am

    You think ’spread’ is bad? Do you have any idea how gay-homo you look saying, “twisties, twisties”? And your weird-ass twisties ain’t no thing when it comes to onesies or carrots. I’m buying a chinese jump rope at lunch, and challenging you to a duel. An *asian* duel.

  • Justine // Oct 19, 2005 at 8:59 am

    Sorry Jeremy, but Amy’s right. We musta spent… well shoot… most of our youth tanlged up in a chinese jump rope.

    The rhyme was (and is) as such:

    two, four, six, eight, in, out, in, spread, in, on.

    And I should know. I was a chinese jump rope super star.

  • Dan // Oct 19, 2005 at 6:18 pm

    What happened to
    two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate?

    I’m confused.

  • Andrea // Oct 19, 2005 at 11:01 pm

    First, let me just get this out the way…Dan and I do NOT get along. I don’t think he likes me. But I digress…I never thought I would say this, but I have to voluntarily side with Jeremy on this one. I don’t even know what “spread” means. It’s totally diamonds, etc - diamonds were really (aka hella) hard to do…getting yourself out of a diamond and back into regular formation, man, that took some skill! And instead of “spreading” your goal was to get up as high as you could…I could do mid-calf, but that was about it. I would still like to see someone successfully complete the knee level.

    So we NorCal folks may drop the “l” from the word almond, we may have invented the word hella, and we may say “Es-plah-nayd,” but dude, we totally know our chinese jump rope!

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