Rochambeau game

[Douglas Bigham]

Roshambo, for me, is absolutely NOT paper-rock-sissors.  It's a game where
you and a friend take turns kicking each other in the testicles until one of you
falls down in pain.  The last man standing is the winner.

This is how Cartman used the quote on South Park (in the Mecha Streisand
episode apparently... I haven't checked this).  It has to be older than that,
though.  I knew about it when I was in high school.  I want to say it came from
Beavis & Butthead.

Anyway, the "Huge Ass Guide" South Park search turned this up:

"Roshambo" - a game of chance, like Rock Paper Scissors. The way Cartman
plays it, you claim the prize, you take your chances with him. The definitive
story for this kind of roshambo comes from The Tonight Show, starring Johnny
Carson, during one of Buddy Hackett's appearances:

"A duck hunter shot a duck, but it landed in another guy's yard. So, the
hunter climbs the fence to get the duck, and the land owner said that the way they
settle disputes in his country was to take turns kicking each other in the
nuts, and whoever was the last one standing got to keep the bird. [Buddy plays
the landowner going out to roshambo for the bird. He winds up for the kick] The
guy kicks the hunter square in the nuts, and the hunter goes down. [Buddy now
plays the hunter, writhing in pain. He does this for two minutes, and then
gets up] The hunter finally got up and was preparing to kick the landowner, but
the landowner said abruptly, "No that's ok..you can keep it."

The story makes clear that the last one standing got to keep the bird. Since
the hunter went down, the landowner got to keep the bird, but the hunter's
reaction was so pathetic that the landowner decided the bird wasn't worth the
pathos. This is Cartman's decision as well, especially since Pip didn't even try
to get up.

-doug
-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas - Austin
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