My Daughters Want to Know

[threadbare]

Is it just the old VW Beetles, or do you also consider the new VWs.......PUNCHBUGGIES???

[Qikdraw]

Is it just the old VW Beetles, or do you also consider the new VWs.......PUNCHBUGGIES???

Well according to my brother and his oldest son, who were playing the game when they were visiting a few months ago, they all count.

[nimrod]

I would have to say a Beetle is a Bug new or old.

[ORod]

To keep the game alive you need both the old and new. I think that on the last road trip we took we saw only two of the old ones.

[barebuns]

They're all slug-bugs to us.

[DenitaLC]

They're all slug-bugs to us.

Yes, I agree!

[naturush]

I dunno...do they have one working headlight?? That's how all my former girlfriends knew they were "punch"buggies!!

[Lake Cruiser]

They are slug bugs here too. Old and New.

[vanesa1017]

Yes, I agree!

They are all slug bugs and yes, they all count.:laugh:

[usmc1]

My "campus car" was a beat-to-hell VW convertible, red (faded) with a day-glo chartreuse trunk lid---which was really the hood since the engine was in the back. I had a morning paper route to help pay for college and support us, and it was perfect for that job. I'd bop around Houston with the top down in the wee hours of the morning slinging my papers.

I think I only paid $150 for it, buying from another student who was graduating. There were only a couple of places that worked on "bugs" and you'd have to call over town, and the region's junk yards, for parts.

We'd load the three kids in the back and head 'em out for festivals and picnics. It was a fun little car.

When I graduated and went to work as a reporter for a local station, they asked me to get a different car, since my little bug didn't project their image in the community. It was pretty shabby looking.

I sold it for $200 to a guy who wanted the frame to build a dune buggy.

Looking back, I wish I'd have kept it.

[calinaturist]

I think the only difference is the points awarded to each VW.

[brazhunter]

"No punch backs."

And when the kids aren't around, I invoke 'adult rules'. :D

[shaneone]

They all count as slug bugs, ask my nephews shoulders LOL

[Boreas]

I agree, they are all "bugs"

My favourite is a 70's vintage beetle that was the colour of an orange traffic cone. Bugs should be different from other cars.

The same could be said for Smart Cars. You folks in the US will know what those are soon enough. There was one here that had 70's style flowers on it. It was white with lavender and pink 70's flower power flowers on it. Very apt.

http://www.thesmart.ca/index.cfm?ID=4720

[baregreg]

Another term we also used was "VDubs"
And I remember those days Boreas when there was the flower decals folks placed on their cars.

[NatureFred]

I suppose I have to be the one to clue some folks in that there's a road-trip game where the first to spot a VW beetle calls out a ritual phrase and punches the nearest fellow traveller, thus scoring a point. The punch can be prevented by interrupting with another ritual phrase. (In our car, the counter-spell was the same as the original, substituting "no punch bug!" for "punch-buggy!"). And there's rules about what happens if either party garbles the phrase or leaves out an element, etc etc.

According to my recollection (kids are now 18 and 16, but they were playing punchbugs much younger than that) you have to specify new or old as well as color as part of the phrase, like this: "punch-buggy NEW red no punchbacks!" or conversely "punch-buggy OLD red no punchbacks!" There are other modifiers besides "no punchbacks"--I recall the rhythm was more "punchbuggy NEW red no punchbacks no something no something!" but I don't recall what the other somethings were, and my kids are sound asleep at the moment.

We had to make a rule that the driver was immune to punchbugs after my daughter caught me with a serious wallop in the middle of a tense left turn on Buford Highway.

Hmmm. Maybe I should watch out the front window until a VW goes by and then go punchbug my son. THAT would get him up for school!