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[[Pieter Bruegel]]'s painting "Children's Games" (1560) depicts children playing a variant of the game.<ref>{{cite web|title=Game: Johnny On A Pony (Detail from Brueghel's Painting)| work=''Elliot Avedon Virtual Museum of Games:'' [http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Brueghel/ Young Folk At Play (Children's Games)] |publisher=[[University of Waterloo]] |date= February 9, 2010 | url=http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Brueghel/pony.html |accessdate=2011-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Games and Great Ideas: A Guide for Elementary School Physical Educators and Classroom Teachers |author=Clements, Rhonda L. |page=10 |isbn=9780313294600|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jYi0CfWmzpUC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q |year=1995| publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]}}</ref> |
[[Pieter Bruegel]]'s painting "Children's Games" (1560) depicts children playing a variant of the game.<ref>{{cite web|title=Game: Johnny On A Pony (Detail from Brueghel's Painting)| work=''Elliot Avedon Virtual Museum of Games:'' [http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Brueghel/ Young Folk At Play (Children's Games)] |publisher=[[University of Waterloo]] |date= February 9, 2010 | url=http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Brueghel/pony.html |accessdate=2011-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Games and Great Ideas: A Guide for Elementary School Physical Educators and Classroom Teachers |author=Clements, Rhonda L. |page=10 |isbn=9780313294600|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jYi0CfWmzpUC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q |year=1995| publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]}}</ref> |
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A 2010 PBS documentary, ''[[New York Street Games (film)|New York Street Games]]'', shows people playing Johnny on a Pony, both on the streets of New York, and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite video |
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| people1=[[Hector Elizondo]] (Narrator) |
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| people2=Matt Levy (Director) |
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| url=http://www.newyorkstreetgames.com/home.html |
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Revision as of 02:58, 12 December 2011
Buck buck (also known as "Johnny on a Pony") is a game with several variants.[1] One version of the game is played when "one player climbs another’s back" and the climber guesses "the number of certain objects out of sight."[1] Another version of the game is played with "one group of players [climbing] on the backs of a second group in order to build as large a pile as possible or to cause the supporting players to collapse."[1]
As early as the 1600s, children in Europe and the Near East played Buck, Buck, which had been called "Bucca Bucca quot sunt hic?".[2][3]
Cultural references
Bill Cosby's 1967 album Revenge includes a track "Buck, Buck" in which he describes playing the game as a child. He mentions that in his hometown of Philadelphia it was called "Buck Buck," while in New York City it was known as "Johnny on the Pony." This track introduces Fat Albert, "the baddest Buck Buck breaker in the world," who "weighed 2,000 pounds" and was the basis for the hit cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The same story, in a slightly different form, is also included in Cosby's book Childhood.
Pieter Bruegel's painting "Children's Games" (1560) depicts children playing a variant of the game.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b c "buck buck". Dictionary of American Regional English. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ^ "Johnny Ride a Pony". The Big Book of Rules: Board Games, Kids' Games, Card Games, from Backgammon and Bocce to Tiddlywinks and Stickball. Penguin. 2005. pp. 221–222. ISBN 9780452286443.
{{cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Hindman, Sandra (1981). "Pieter Bruegel's Children's Games, Folly, and Chance". The Art Bulletin. LXIII (3): 470–471.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "Game: Johnny On A Pony (Detail from Brueghel's Painting)". Elliot Avedon Virtual Museum of Games: Young Folk At Play (Children's Games). University of Waterloo. February 9, 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work=|work=(help) - ^ Clements, Rhonda L. (1995). Games and Great Ideas: A Guide for Elementary School Physical Educators and Classroom Teachers. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN 9780313294600.