"Stinky pinky"

[Baker, John]

        I can only say that my friends and I saw no connection.  I'm just trying to recover from the shock of learning that some people called the game "stinky pinky."  I wonder which version was first.

        Apparently the game is also called "rhyming buddies," another name that is new to me.  A Google search suggests that the three names are of comparable popularity.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: "Stinky pinky"


So is "hanky panky" related to this "game"?  I'm thinking of Wilson's BE
pronunciations.

At 02:52 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
>         When I learned this game (when I was a freshman in college, from
> another freshman), we called it "hinky pinky."  The choices were hink
> pink for one-syllable rhymes, hinky pinky for two-syllable rhymes, and
> hinkety pinkety for three-syllable rhymes; I don't recall ever having any
> four-syllable rhymes.  The only example I remember is "Hink pink:  an
> oblong spheroid."  The answer, of course, is "a tall ball."
>
>John Baker