Pen Flicking

[45rpm]

Since you people were talking about pencil fights....

Who here seriously pen flicks? I think here in Sydney we attribute the pen flicking skill to asians, with the others following suit (because it can seriously look damn cool, esp when u are bored in class)

I started when I was 14, marking people's clothes around me with pen marks. Eventually got it, i've got 2 styles, but can never manage the spin around the thumb and back...

I don't really do it now that i have a laptop but interested in ur experiences if any

Mel

[Randroid]

Care to elaborate for the sake of ignorance?

[45rpm]

hmm it's where you just flick a pen around your fingers..
how else can i elaborate ... um..anyone care to go into detail explanation?

[GEKIGANGER 3]

Originally posted by 45rpm
hmm it's where you just flick a pen around your fingers..
how else can i elaborate ... um..anyone care to go into detail explanation?

i used to do that shit. but everyone be doing it. im no racist, but white people do the lame basic ones. ha. i like the half dollar thing that bad guy does in that old Richard Greco movie. i forgot the name, the one where he drives a red ferrari or lamborgini or something. i use just a quarter since i aint got it like that. it's where you use the tops of your fingers (not the ends) to flip a quarter down and up your hand. nah mean? that shit's dope.

Damn! what the hell is the name of that Greco show?

[GEKIGANGER 3]

Originally posted by Innate Dog
Damn! what the hell is the name of that Greco show?

the show was 21 Jumpstreet. Im talking about a movie though. He was like some secret agent or soemthing. Dressed to Kill? i dunno, maybe im way off with that title. i could have sworn something like that. License to Kill is James Bond, i think. damn. maybe my still-living-in-the-80s aunt will know.

[Yumyumcha]

That Grieco movie was called "If Looks could kill".

One other particular thing of note - which you might find of interest Martin. He played the Ghost Rider in the tv series, "Marvel Action Hour: The Fantastic Four". Crazy props for that I think. Incidentally, this is not the really bad Fantastic Four movie.

[S•Sly]

<FONT FACE=arial SIZE=2 COLOR=blue>ya, I know what you're talkin' bout 45rpm, and although white people are starting to do the pen flicks, it does seem more like an asian thing. Wierd how it seems as though asians all around the world seem to be doing the same type a thing... Hey! they filmed 21 jumpstreet at my school here! without their filming, our high school would never get a new paint job... keke Hey, did you guys also do these other useless talents in highschool such as 'gleeking' and bubble blowing with only the saliva in your mouth? 'Gleeking' is a term we use up here in vancouver, it might be called different in differnt areas. It's where you shoot a stream of saliva from under your tongue. The thin stream shoots out of your mouth like you were a human water gun! It's kinda hard to explain for those who haven't seen it before. I cannot gleek, I don't know how they do it...you somehow train your muscles to flex where saliva is excreted into your mouth. The area is right under the base of the tongue. I can do the bubble blowing though! and no, it's not where you strech over a film of saliva over your lips and blow like you were a baby foaming at the mouth, this bubble blowing you actually have a bubble (on average about 2cm in diameter) shoot off of your tongue and the bubble actually floats in the air.</FONT>

[Yumyumcha]

Gleeking? Is that what it was called. Personally I found it kinda grossed - I never found it any different than just plain ole spitting on the sidewalk. But the bubble on the tongue thing was kinda cool. I use to practice that in my car when I realized that I was probably getting the back seat all wet. Ick!

I am so excited that somebody brought this up. I remember in elementary school the pen spin around the back of the thumb was the most amazing thing...and only my korean friends could do it! Later in high school I noticed that Cambodians and also Vietnamese possessed this talent. Of course, this was something i could never grasp, perhaps because I am only half. It is the most graceful and amazing fidget manuever i have ever witnessed. My friend could do the spin for EVER just like she was hula hooping. Still, when i pen flick, I can get a spin, but then it just flies off my hand. I see this as kind of an Asian American folk tradition passed down through the school system.

[martin]

Where I come from, gleeking was called glicking. Maybe the SoCal dialect? No, I never mastered the art, but I didn't try that hard, either.

Pen-spinning was definitely around when I was in high school and it was the Asian folks who did it.

What about throwing pencils up in the air so they'd stick in the acoustic/asbestos paneling on the ceiling?

I didn't know that Richard Grieco was in those Marvel shows in addition to Jump Street... But I do know that he was solo in a show called Booker!

[GEKIGANGER 3]

Originally posted by Yumyumcha
That Grieco movie was called "If Looks could kill".

much respect due.

[GEKIGANGER 3]

Originally posted by Yumyumcha
Gleeking? Is that what it was called. Personally I found it kinda grossed - I never found it any different than just plain ole spitting on the sidewalk. But the bubble on the tongue thing was kinda cool. I use to practice that in my car when I realized that I was probably getting the back seat all wet. Ick!

with gleeking, there's no snot in the mix. that's a little more comforting. no loogie and all.

[S•Sly]

<FONT FACE=arial SIZE=2 COLOR=navy>that's right. with gleeking it's just pure saliva. no foam, no bubbles, no phlem. But it is still like spitting i guess..

Martin, I am familiar with the pencil stuck onto ceiling thing too. At our highschool we had a variation on that though..people would get ZigZag rollies, (the 'cigarette' rolling paper for those who don't know) roll them up, soak one end of the paper roll in their mouths, and flick it up so the wet side slaps onto the ceiling and dries, leaving lovely rolls of paper sticking out from the ceiling tiles. I have no idea how these guys do it though, I've tried, and the paper is so light, I can't get it to move through the air fast enough to get anywhere, and to toss it so the wet end hits the ceiling with enough force that it is able to stick there is yet another challenge. Also, the ceilings were pretty high too! I'm just amazed when I see the paper hanging down from the classroom</FONT>

[Decadent1]

Is pen flicking that thing that Val Kilmer does in a scene of Top Gun?