Honeypots is a children’s game in which players sit or squat with their hands gripping the backs of their thighs, while other players lift them up by the armpits and shake or swing them in an attempt to make them lose their grip. What fun! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Honeypot Children’s Game”
We were talking earlier about the term honeypot, and it reminded me that one of my favorite things to look at in the Oxford English Dictionary is their descriptions of children’s games.
And I remember that there’s a game called honeypot, and here’s the definition. A children’s game in which a number of players sit or squat with their hands gripping the backs of their thighs while two other players select one to quote unquote buy. That player is then lifted up by the armpits and shaken or swung in an attempt to make him or her let go his or her grip.
Grab the back of the thighs and then somebody swings you around by your armpits.
Yeah, like you’re a honeypot.
Oh, I see. Gotcha.
Yeah.
We’re going to have to do that in our next live show. Get the whole audience doing the honeypot.
That’s great.
I love it.
But I love the academic remove of the dictionary, which is probably a really fun, goofy game, right?
The mismatch of tone there is astonishing.
Isn’t that wonderful?
Yeah.
