Son brought his first thingamyjig home from school and wife and I can’t remember what they’re called!

by JTLadsuh

29 comments
  1. Only time I’ve heard them named the kid called it a cootie catcher, but that was from an American kid that transferred into my primary school.

  2. There’s a name for it ??

    I had girls come up to me and say either; “Pick A Number” or “Pick A Colour”

  3. I never heard it be referred to by a specific name when I was at school. People would just turn up to school with one and whenever I wanted one, I would ask my dad to make one for me as I didn’t know how to make one myself.

    I would say “Dad, can you make one of those foldy things for me?” and I would pretend to be using one as I said “foldy things” and my dad knew exactly what I meant.

  4. We called it a chatterbox when I was in school.

    A Google search seems to support this name

  5. It depends on what’s inside. It can be a fortune teller if they write magic 8 ball type things in the middle. Its called a chatterbox if there is questions and dares inside.

  6. They don’t have a name. They just exist. And everyone know what they are. All over the globe

  7. I grew up in the US, where it was sometimes called a cootie catcher.

    But if I was talking to somebody here in the UK, I’d probably call it a fortune teller or as a last resort just describe it and mime using one if I was trying to talk to somebody about them for some reason.

  8. Oh god.

    I made one of these when I was maybe 6 or 7. One of them was “get a divorce”.

    Did it to one of my mum’s friends, she picked it and mum yelled at me.

    But wouldn’t you know….10 years later they did get a divorce.

  9. Snap dragon or something where I was from, UK. Girls liked them me and my mates thought they was crap

  10. In my region in France it’s called a : cocotte en papier.

    Cocotte is a childish/desuet word for hen.
    En papier just means in paper.
    So it could be translated to paper hen, or paper chick.

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