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Smear the Queer Wikipedia - SanDog - 07-24-2006

I should have checked there first....

Smear the queer

Smear the queer (also called smear but more commonly known as Kill the Man With the Ball on the East Coast) is a rougher tag variant more common among older children and teenagers. In this game, "it" is instead called "the queer". The queer does not try to tag the other players; instead, he tries to avoid being tagged, or, more often, tackled (knocked down to the ground) or attacked with a toy weapon.
Smear the queer is often played with an object such as a ball which is held by the "queer". Once the "queer" is tagged or tackled, he throws the object into the air. The other players then try to grab the object, thus becoming the new "queer". Unlike other forms of tag, those who stay "it" the longest are considered the best players.
In the US, smear the queer is most often played using an American football. Children sometimes choose to play smear the queer after attempts to organize an informal game of tackle football fail (due to lacking enough players or simply as a fun alternative). The game smear the queer is thought to have been around at least as long as children have played informal games of American football.
Queer is used in the Victorian sense of "strange person" rather than the modern definition of "homosexual", though contemporary players may interpret it in the latter sense. As a result, various renamings have proliferated. examples include: "Kill the Carrier", "Murder Call", "Kill the man with the ball", "Kill the man with the pill", "Pick 'em Up Bust em", "Keep off", "Cream the Carrier", "Rumble Fumble," or "Kick the dog with one shoe". In GoldenEye 007, a video game for the Nintendo 64 console, it was called "The Living Daylights [Flag Tag]," and in the Halo video game series it is called "Oddball," using a human skull for the "ball," which players must pick up to become the "oddball."
Played somewhat less violently, and without an object being carried, the game is sometimes known as backwards tag. This derives from the sense that the nature of being "it" is reversed, changing from an undesirable status to one very difficult to maintain. Played in this manner, the game can retain the playfulness of "normal" tag, with a higher need for stamina.
The Japanese variant "Shippo-tori" is somewhat similar to smear the queer. In this variant, every player carries an object, usually a handkerchief, and is considered "it." A player is eliminated from the game when another player still in the game takes his object; the winner is the last player to retain his.

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Smear the Queer Wikipedia - Blondie - 07-24-2006

"Cream the cairrier" is kind gay.

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Smear the Queer Wikipedia - leeman - 07-24-2006

Blondie Wrote:"Cream the cairrier" is kind gay.

Not if you're the carrier ........

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Smear the Queer Wikipedia - WoolyGoat - 07-25-2006

"more commonly known as Kill the Man With the Ball on the East Coast"

Word. East Coast 4 evahhh...

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