Pinch Punch

Pinch 🤌 punch 👊

1st of the month! 😜

Bagsy no returns! 😁#phrases

This phrase is thought to date back to old England times when people believed in the existence of witches. The 'pinch' part refers to the pinching of the salt - as this kitchen ingredient was believed to… pic.twitter.com/Xg9rYlTMaC

— CJB (@cjbtoday) November 1, 2024

Like much of this blog, I go with the flow.....

And today, the flow trickled by the fact that today is the 1st November! And that led to the memory of this phrase:

Pinch 🤌 punch 👊
1st of the month! 😜
Bagsy no returns! 😁

As a child we always used to say this at school. Did you?

We had a rule that if you said "Bagsy No Returns" it meant the other person you had lightly pinched and punched couldn't do it back to you (and no the pinch and punch weren't bad at all, so any woke people please stand down and let it be).

The person you pinched and punched would then excitedly and naturally want to run off and find someone else to do it to.

It was all about laughter and human connection. And again, to repeat, it was absolutely nothing to do with anything bad (I can still hear you woke people starting to rant, again missing the point).

In terms of the history of this phrase. I thought you may like to know that the phrase is thought to date back to old England times when people believed in the existence of witches. The 'pinch' part refers to the pinching of the salt - as this kitchen ingredient was believed to weaken the power of witches if thrown over them. The 'punch' part was to banish the witch once and for all.

I recall there is also a rule that you cannot do this after midday and it can only ever be done on the first of the month.

And that's it. I hope you enjoyed it. If you didn't well you know where you can go! Yep, that's right, you can go to this next post! Maybe you'll enjoy that one?