My brother.

[Bouncy Ball]

My brother used to blink his eyes a lot and roll his eyes back in his head. He did it so much his teachers thought there was something wrong with him and our mom took him to the doctor. He admitted he was doing it on purpose but for no reason.

My mother did his room in "The Empire Strikes Back" stuff in the early 80s. During the day he showed it off to his friends, his Big Wheel Gang. But at night, Darth Vader everywhere scared the shit out of him and he slept on the floor in the hallway. He slept there because I wouldn't let him sleep with me.

When I was a teenager, he started stealing all my Sixteen magazines.

We had an in-ground pool and when HE was a teenager, he and his friends would haul their dirt bikes up to the roof of the house and ride off the house into the pool on their bikes. I kept expecting a paralysis case.

One day I came home from high school to find my seventh grade brother with all his buddies trying to light their farts.

When he really wanted to fight me, he'd go put on his pointy-toed cowboy boots.

We used to beat each other with spatulas and remote controls. His friends taught him how to "frog" someone and I stopped picking fights with him after that.

When I was 17 and he was 15, he saw my boyfriend and I kissing and I guess he thought he was getting a bit too friendly, because he pulled the guy away from me and punched him in the nose, breaking it.

When I asked him about it later (I was pissed off at him), he said "I never liked that guy."

My brother.

[Madrone]

1. WTF is "frog"?

Funny stuff about your brother. :)

[Bouncy Ball]

2. You punch someone (generally in the upper arm)

but you leave your middle finger knuckle sticking out. And you sort of punch them on a down movement. The knuckle sticking out adds a bit of ooomph to the injury and if you clench up (tighten your muscle) right before it happens and it's a particularly well done "frog," you will develop a knot almost instantly. Big purple bruise with a huge knot.

That's why I sort of stopped picking on him. Plus he had outstripped me in height and weight. SO I thought it would be a good idea to lay off.

:D

[bettyellen]

3. oh damn, that hurts. my brothers used to do that.

and they's play knucks and cheat until my hands were bloody. that sucked, too.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Did you do slaps?

Or what is it called when you get to take two fingers, sort of lick them, then grab the person's arm and HIT their arm hard with your two fingers?

Or what about rubbing the skin of your arm back and forth until it was red and burning? What is that called?

Man, boys come up with some SADISTIC shit, don't they?

[evlbstrd]

7. Indian burn.

But don't blame Native Americans.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I think that was the Indian Burn, the rubbing thing

Yeah, I remember all the pain games we boys used to play in junior high.

But only in junior high. None of that stuff happened in high school.

Weird.

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Once we were both in high school my brother and I were almost

afraid to fight physically, because we could both inflict some serious damage at that point.

In fact, when I was in 11th grade, I was running from him and got my toes caught in a louvered door with a slat missing. I couldn't get them out. He grinned at me, then PUSHED me hard. My foot stayed where it was, and three of my toes were broken. He stood over me saying I was "FAKING!" until he noticed they were swelling up like crazy.

Whoooo he was in trouble!

[bettyellen]

10. and the skin twisty thing-- was that an indian burn?

i really could not watch the three stooges without flinching until i was in my twenties.
i had five older siglings. and three of them were hellcats.

[Bouncy Ball]

13. Oh geez, you poor thing!

Ouch!

[FreedomAngel82]

12. With me and my brother

he's taller but I weigh a lil more. One time my dad was doing something on the computer and my brother and I were looking on and he said something stupid and I pushed him playfully and he tripped over the coffee table. ;) So us short people can push tall people over too. Of course they have to be not paying attention.

[hfojvt]

16. we would call that a "monkey bump" unless it is on the head

in which case it is a "willie". Which is my nick-name for my baby sister and somehow also her nickname for me, although I jokingly threatened far more than I ever hit. Actually all of that came from my little brother who was pretty mean to her when they were walking to school together and I was nowhere around since I was going to junior high.

[evlbstrd]

5. thank heaven for little girls

I was a big brother.
We all need therapy, or to write a book.

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Well, he was a younger brother.

But he always acted like he was my older brother. Especially once I got to be about 14. He thought he was the defender of my honor or something. It was maddening at the time. He'd run guys off right and left.

[evlbstrd]

11. That's what I did as the father of a daughter.

It must be genetic.

[hfojvt]

17. that is so strange

for one thing, all of my little sister's boyfriends were bigger than me. My older sister? Fuggedabodit. She dated some of the roughest thugs in the school. I did watch over my baby sister some, although I never actually ran any guys off. How could I when I was in my twenties and they were all juveniles? Sadly, even there, most of them outweighed me anyway.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. My brother was one of those kids

who didn't care. He didn't care HOW big the other guy was, he was just CRAZY.

A little nuts. Yep, he was.

[texas1928]

19. Hey I nearly drowned my borther-in-law.

He would not leave me alone in the pool one day and So I kept dunking him, I had him by the swim trunks and his neck. Oh man did he piss me off.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Aw on the boyfriend thing

;)

[sasquatch]

15. My younger sister's nickname was "Turd" and I used to give her "Cowbites"

:D

[tjwmason]

20. I'd be willing to break more than just the nose of a guy with my sisters

But not unless it was desired by the sister concerned - thankfully I approve of my brother-in-law and my younger sister doesn't have a beau at the moment.

It's just the way that brothers are.