It was called "burning" someone. My dad and brother still play this game with one another. They don't do the punching part, though. My fifty-something dad seems to get some supreme satisfaction out of "burning" my (30-year-old, mind you) brother.

I thought the phrase wit hthe punch was "Made ya look!", which unevitably was said fast to soundlike "madejalook".

w/r/t karoke revolution, i saw a review on tv (g4)and it is the opposite of what you expected. it measures pitch, but doesn't recognize the word so much, so you can sing "la-la-la" on pitch and get a perfect score. i'm 90% sure of this, but i'd suggest renting it 'cause i heard it's a great game.

Sadly enough some of us in our late twenties still play this "circle game". We have never used any sayings or words with it we just liked the idea of punching our friend in the arm as hard as we could.

Well, looks like I've been schooled in trivial playground roguery. I'm glad I never had to deal with that during my childhood. Although I did have to deal with it on Thursday, so Kempa wins again. Kempa.com - Always bringing back things that RULED in the 6th grade.

just remembered netjack review it: "The game allows you to sing one octave above or below the original song..."

link
http://www.netjak.com/review.php/481

and yes, i have to agree with chris on this one.

I love the circle game as well and have played it with many different people from many different backgrounds. Much like the old school game Tip 21 I have ran across so many different rules to this game, some of them are...

1.After punching someone you have to "wipe off" your punch.
2. Using 2 hands to make a bigger circle makes a 10 point bubble which gives you 10 free punches.
3. Holding both your arms together in a large circle and counting to 10 out loud activates a 100 point bubble. (This is best done standing across a room from someone because of the following rule...
4. Any bubble may be popped and the punch points are transferred to the other person.
5. If someone grabs hold of your finger while you are popping their bubble they get to hit you for the entire duration they can hold onto your finger.
6. All bubbles must be below eye sight (but theres also)
7. All bubbles must be below shoulder level (and even still)
8. All bubbles must be below waist level.
9. No bubble can be forced into someone's eye sight.
10. You can form a bubble and put it on your own eye which gives you goggles to look down and find potential bubbles to pop.

Thats all I can remember right now, but I know I've heard another 10 or 20 rules in the last few year. So if you break this game out with someone who didnt grow up in the same neighborhood, make sure the two of you are usuing the same rules or else a 100 punch burst could be coming your way.

Yes, junior high was a wonderous place for all sorts of nonsensical games involving being hurt in some form or another. Someone needs to hire bullies to go torture "home schooled" kids so that they don't miss out too.

p.s. The circle game was on an episode of Malcom in the Middle (featuring the only scene in recent memory involving punching a boy in a wheelchair).

And if the 'looker' put his finger into the hole without you catching him looking he got to hit the hole maker.

Or was that a porn movie?