Santania & Sanaa, Apr 13, 2019
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on the hand clapping game that is known as "Slide", "Numbers", and several other names.
This post mostly presents comments that include geographical references for the names used for the "Slide" hand clapping game.
As commenter @isabellarodriguez4559 wrote in 2013 in the discussion thread that is given as Online Source #1 below "There's different names for this game. Deal with it people".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-hand-clap-game-slide-numbers-slide.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. This post showcases five YouTube videos of this hand clap game . A few comments about this hand clap game are also included in this post. Some additional comments about "Slide" hand clap games are included in the Addendum to that post.
The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in and associated with the videos that are showcased in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/12/playing-hand-clap-game-slide-part-i.html for Part I of a 2018 pancocojams series that provides videos, information, and comments about the hand clap game "Slide"
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/12/playing-hand-game-slide-part-ii-two.html for Part II of a 2018 pancocojams series on this hand clap game. That post showcases two additional videos of that game and presents some comments from those videos' discussion threads.
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SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT "SLIDE" HAND CLAP GAMES ARE CALLED AROUND THE WORLD
These comment sources are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.
Online Source #1
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJsX7T8fYM "Hand Clapping game "Slide", published by Splash Games, June 11, 2009
1. @Micchaaeeel, 2011
"hahaha that's so weird ! everyone's saying they call it
slide or slide baby or something like that, in australia it's called slime yuck
xD"
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2. Tiffany Chen, 2012
"In ny we call it numbers"
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"ny" = New York (This probably probably means New York City, but may (also) mean New York state)
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3. @maybevivi, 2012
"In chicago, we call it slide slide slippery
slide, and we "slide" our hands 4 times (one for each of those words)
before we start clapping."
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4. Yellow Print, 2015
"I know this game, i call it slime yak ya"
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5. mrm64, 2015
"@Yellow Print lol we called it Slide Up in Albany,
NY"
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6. e m a j a s m i n e, 2016
"To all my Australians out there, this I called slime
yuck yuck😊😜"
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7. Rose The Third Child, 2018
"e m a j a s m i n e in new Zealand they call it slime
yuck yuck too"
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8. @brentgrenfell4871, 2017
"In Australia it’s called slime yuck yuck"
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9. @faithyy5937, 2017
"I called it slide baby"
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10. @Ninaluky123, 2018
"Faithyy same"
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11. @Monaedeezy, 2018
"Same Midwest USA"
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12. . @erhtsee, 2018
"yess finally someone else calls it that. the beginning you would slide both hands and say “slide baby one baby two baby i love you” and then continue with the counting and everything."
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13. @devilangel777, 2020
"Faithyy yes. That's what my friends called it."
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14. @thejohnsfamily857, 2019
"To all my New zealanders out there it's calledslime yuck
yuck"
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15. @beckiepalmtree1383, 2020
"To all the new zealander’s this is called slime yuck yuck but Nowa day’s it’s done different"
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Online Source #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zEcsIfe6lU "90's Hand Games!!!!", published by Geneas, Nov. 4, 2018
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Pancocojams Editor's Note: A demonstration of the "Slide" hand clap game begins at 2:58 in this video. In Part II of their 90s hand clap game series.
In the comment section for this video .The two young African American women Atiyah and Geneas shared that they
are from Jersey City, New Jersey.
[Part II of this series can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NKrzvqz_I&t=0s, Geneas, March 28, 2020.]
1. @soleclaw6521, 2020
"Do y'all play numbers? I'm trying to teach my daughter to
play numbers like in New Orleans area when I was a little girl."
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2. @Realitybit, 2021
"In new york we called slide numbers and we have two
different versions"
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Online Source #3
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhAP3nwJWQ&t=335s "90’s HAND GAMES WITH TAKEEYA LA’TI ( HILARIOUS 🤣 )", published by Vibing with P, January 11, 2021
1. @SurvivingSoFamousTikaBabyGurl, 2021
“Slide, slide, slippery side. Yo mama ain’t got no hair
on the side. SHE BALD!” (Instead of “kiss, kiss, kiss) 🤣
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2.@SurvivingSoFamousTikaBabyGurl, 2021
"Chi-town days"
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3. Vivian W., 2023
"In chicago, we call it slide slide slippery slide, and we "slide" our hands 4 times (one for each of those words) before we start clapping."
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Online Source #4
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avM5C9Kl1cE "Slide Slide Slippery Slide Slide!", published by ThunderShark, Aug 17, 2008
"Any one who lives in Washington knows this"
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My guess is that "Washington" here refers to Washington, D. C. and not the state of Washington . I based this guess on my position that the name "Slide Slide Slippery Slide" was created by African Americans and there are many more African Americans in Washington D.C. than in the state of Washington.
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Online Source #4
From https://folklore.usc.edu/slide-game/ [retrieved January 23, 2024]
USC Digital Folklore Archives ["USC"= University of Southern California]
A database of folklore performances
Slide (Game)
Text:
“Your hands would slide (Interweave your hands with your friend’s hands and then slide them out and then draw them both towards yourself) and you’d then start doing patty cake [clap your own hands together than then hit your partner’s right hand with your right hand, and then clap your own hands again and repeat with the left hands]. You would start counting each time you and your partner hit hands and skip the number five while counting – 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 etc. and then when you got to 50 you would skip from 49 to 60. If someone said 5 (including 15, 25, 35, etc.) then they were ‘out’.”
Context:
EK is a 19 year old American student at USC. She described a
child’s game she remembers playing with her friends while growing up. She was
raised in Northern California.
Interpretation:
Growing up in Minnesota, we played all sorts of clapping games, but I’d never heard this one. It’s interesting that the “patty cake” hand clapping motion was presented as a given, and while I understood it, I assume other people wouldn’t know what “patty cake” meant, however it might be a more widespread game than “Slide” is. It seems as though this game is a derivation of “patty cake”. Since it is a bit more complicated than “patty cake”, it would probably be seen as a more ‘mature’ way for older kids to play “patty cake”. Emily Rivas (2020) talks about the “patty cake” hand clapping game and describes it as “the most classic and simple clapping game out there.” Perhaps its simplicity is what has caused it to be generalized to so many other games. If you read the rest of her article “10 classic hand clapping games to teach your kids”, she even describes the hand motions of one of the rhymes/games “Miss Mary Mack” as a derivative of the “patty cake” hand clapping. Even more interesting is there is a game called “Slide” in this article that looks significantly different than the “Slide” described above in both lyrics and hand motions. Nevertheless, “patty cake” has a long history and some debatable origins as a nursery rhyme (Di Donato, 2016), but its proliferation in new derivations of the game is incredibly intriguing. Hand clapping games are great for kids and also very common (in variable forms) in my experience because they can be played anywhere and are easy to learn, while also being competitive, which makes them fun. They are something that gets passed around by kids without anyone really knowing where they came from, and since the informant told me about a game I had never heard of (and I supplied her with games she had never heard of), it is obvious that they their usage varies even across the United States."
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Pancocojams Editor's Note:
Please help document information about this game for the folkloric record by answering these questions in the comment section below.
What is the name for hand clapping games like "Slide" where you're from? (Please include your city/state if in the United States, and city/country if outside of the United States along with when you first played this game or saw this game played. Any other demographic information (such as the ages and genders of the people who play/ed this game is very welcome. Thanks!
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This concludes Part II of this two part 2024 pancocojams series on the hand clap game "Slide" (and other names).
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