Re:Square Theory
by kelseyfrog on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @03:47PM
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Thank you! What a fantastic find. This is exactly the kind of book I would have checked out at the library as a child.
It's possible I found this decades ago and the origin of how I learned this game was lost to time :)
Re:Square Theory
by staffordrj on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @07:20PM
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I made a daily game version of this
https://rystaf.github.io/hinklepinkle/
Love the idea but today’s was not a good one.
Today's was... the same word, spelled once with the US spelling and once with the British spelling?
for the record, i can't find any combination of those words in my transcriptions of loveline shows, although i don't have them all, and it is possible there are up to 50% transcription errors. there is 1 reference to "Stinky Linky" but it appears unrelated, "what's the linky?" "freckles" - i got excited that i found it but looking at the context it was in vain.
i have five clean references to "as a mason jar" so my collection is fairly complete ;-)
note: ripgrep 4.079s wall; ag (silversearcher) 5.916s wall; grep 6.940s wall
I am not that familiar with the show, but people online mentioned it several times in connection with the game. A web search turns up e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxA2J5W1A7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdl_iKrVEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQNjKcLYSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmPQPvPkTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ciP_ZRMng
Oh, then i concur with your prior statement that it "continues [...] today"; i define "LoveLine" differently. Someday i'll find the time to get "fills" - i only have 5.5 years fully transcribed.
Sorry about that.
According to this 1941 Life Magazine issue, teenage girls in Atlanta were making up rhyming pairs like this at the time under the name "stinky pinky". https://archive.org/details/Life-1941-01-27-Vol-10-No-4/mode... Webster's Dictionary from the 60s has the game listed under that name, https://archive.org/details/webstersthirdnew0000phil_l0b1/mo... and that name also seems to continue to today, e.g. by the radio show Loveline.