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| You see a Punch Buggie (same game slightly different name), you yell Punch Buggie [color] and you punch your brother or sister. When VolksWagen ships cars to Spain do to they replace the VW badge with a badge that says "V"? (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) How odd. How do Spanish people play "punch bug?" "Hey look, there's another Five." -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Thomas Main wrote in message <3741C0D7.61E1C501@a...te.edu>... (...) Maybe they don't. We don't have "w" in our alphabet, and I don't know anything about what the "punch bug" is..:-) (we several other letters by the way : Öö, Çç, Üü, and others (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Oh! You mean "Slug Bug!" A game that has enjoyed a recent resurgence of popularity in the Bliss household. Or at least in the Bliss car-hold. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Yea, I call it "slug bug" as well. But we play a different game. VW products (at least the classic ones) are worth points: 1 point: Beetle or New Beetle, Beetle Bus or Van. 2 points: Karmann Ghia 3 points: Thing, hatchback sedan/station wagon. (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) We used to play this game, though only with the regular breed of Bug. Our version was called "Herbie," after the lamentable Disney movie of the same name that starred a VW. You'd say "Herbie [color]" and get a point; convertables were prized (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) hold on a second i love that game-once my bro and i got about a 120 in a single trip-including an odd beetle with square headlights . anyway my theorie is that a shadowy organisation is attemping to reduce the no of letters in the minifig (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I called it "punch buggy" when I played it. What I find interesting is the number of posts from people remembering this game (under whatever name). Even though we all live so far apart. Who started it, why did they start it, and how did it spread (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It was called "Spud" when I was a kid. -Tom McD. when replying, please deck the spamcake. (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| We call it Slug Bug too, only for many years we had to change the rules, My brother and I still play to this way.. Though we knew where they all were in town.. so we made a deal that we couldn't use parked ones. They have to be moving or sitting at (...) (26 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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