Talk:ding-dong ditch

Hello, in french

(variations, suite on § "nigger knocking" of Wikipedia's article "ding dong ditch", DP)... Or putting a big enveloppe full of dead red crickets (it was just after a plague of them had come and gone) in somebody's mail-box, ring, ditch behind a cactus hedge (red and yellow flowers in full bloom, and bees at work among them...) & see the face of the poor woman as she comes out quickly, believing it's the mail man, and opens the letter...Makes me suddenly remember she was a Mme Llull...So not only "niggers" were aimed at...So sorry (after 55 years...) Mme Llull, we were headless little brats...

BTW, in french we did not have any special name fot that "game" : it was plainly "tirer le sonnettes" (pulling bell-strings), & it used to earn us a lot of bashes & "coups de pieds au cul" (ass-kicking) Whos said Wiktionary was not there to be used as a Proust's madeleine...? T.y. Arapaima 08:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

"Staircase recollection" ("esprit de l'escalier") : what we call "criquet pélerin" (pilgrim locust) is your "desert locust" , your "cricket" is actually our black chirping fire-side "grillon". And "Ding dong ditch" is also an episode of MTV animated television series "Beavis and Butt-head"...(did'nt see it, does it begin with ringing a neighbour's bell, & end with his house arson ?) T.y Arapaima 07:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)