Roshambo history

[Ace]

ive been having this argument with my friends for about 2 years, right
when i started playing ultimate in college:

roshambo was once used in a south park episode, a very early one, in
which roshambo was a game where you kick each other in the balls, and
the first one to fall down loses. "ill kick first." whenever i tell my
friends, "oh man, TANK sucks at roshing, he's never won once! (which
is true, YOU SUCK)"

so anyway, they are always like, dude, you were not playing roshambo.

so my question is, which came first? the eternal chicken or egg
question

ace

[Frank Kearney]

Tell your friends they're as dumb as Cartman.

Check out this snippet from a RSD post from 1995:
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after the drills they split into two teams. i am not sure how this was
done but it involved about five minutes discussion. one field was being
used by the women. the other had to be shared by over fourty players. each
team then decided who would start the game by roshambo (paper-scissors-
stone. how does one spell that anyway?) which is called "jan kem pon" in
japanese. they do this in a group and everyone does it at once. i was not
sure how you "win" i just followed along until they told me i was though.
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Here's the whole post: http://tinyurl.com/2bl6b

And the first Southpark episode was aired in 1997 according to this page:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/guide.html

QED,
Frank

Post by Ace
ive been having this argument with my friends for about 2 years, right
roshambo was once used in a south park episode, a very early one, in
which roshambo was a game where you kick each other in the balls, and
the first one to fall down loses. "ill kick first." whenever i tell my
friends, "oh man, TANK sucks at roshing, he's never won once! (which
is true, YOU SUCK)"
so anyway, they are always like, dude, you were not playing roshambo.
so my question is, which came first? the eternal chicken or egg
question
ace

[Daag Alemayehu]

Post by Frank Kearney
http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/guide.html

Yeah, but who says South Park invented the roshambo nut-kicking game?
This excerpt was taken from the first result Google returns when you
search for "roshambo" :

I should point out that a very frequently asked question I get now about
Roshambo is along the lines of, "I thought it was that game on South Park
where you kick each other in the nuts as hard as you can." Kids, kids --
that's a joke. Roshambo has always been another name for that
Rock-Paper-Scissors game. (The name comes from "phonetic French for Rock
Paper Scissors" or so we are told.) Stop taking cartoons so seriously.

I think our rosham came first, but who knows.

[Elizabeth Murray]

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[Frank Kearney]

Post by Daag Alemayehu
Yeah, but who says South Park invented the roshambo nut-kicking game?

Too true. I challenge you to find another place where it's mentioned as a
nut-kicking game, though.

Frank

[Thomas Hendrickson]

Post by Ace
roshambo was once used in a south park episode, a very early one, in
which roshambo was a game where you kick each other in the balls, and
the first one to fall down loses.

This is what I thought "roshambo" mean when I started playing 2 years ago.
So at my first sectionals, everyone was getting really excited to
roshambo over something stupid, which confused me. I thought these guys
must be really hardcore, you know, to give up their balls so willingly.
Anyways, I was pretty pumped up to see some awesome ball kicking.

Turned out to be a big let down.

I lost a lot of respect for my teammates that day.

-Tommy