Settle a debate, what were these called?

by plantscatsandus

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  3. Finger fortune teller / loball insult generator for bored kids

  5. I don’t recall them ever having a name, missus can’t remember either 😂

    “That folded paper thing” is as close as I remember.

  8. That origami thing where you choose things, count and open up the flappy thing then read the message. Usually an insult.

  11. in the 80’s they were future tellers. But my son (3rd grade) just brought one home and called it a cootie catcher. So ya know….whatever works

  22. It never had a name. It just appeared out of nowhere

    (Actually out of what the kids one year above you at school were doing last year. Now make an “o” with forefinger and thumb and hold it below waist level. Now make someone look at it… That was nameless too)

  23. I’m torn, I don’t know if I want to call it a fortune teller or a cootie catcher. Canadian background if it makes a difference.

  26. I once made a missfortune teller for a callcentre office job I had for a while way back. Thing lasted months as it made the rounds.
    So many people got told “Its aids!” over the space of those 4 months.

  29. Thingwaymajigs, identified only by the hand actions.

  30. I remember seeing them in a book on origami when I was a kid, and they called them “Spanish salt cellars” which I always remember thinking was pretty bloody weird.

  32. As we were walking back to class after lunch, a guy in my primary class offered our teacher a go on his. She opened the final word and read aloud “big fanny flaps”

  33. Used to make them all the time but we never actually had a name for them? Now it seems strange that we didn’t, just the paper thingy

  34. “Pick-a-number, pick-a-colour, pick-a-number, pick-a-colour”

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