Talk:Gnip Gnop

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VERY IMPORTANT ADDITION NEEDED TO ARTICLE: There was a classic commericial in the 1970's when somebody lost the game and announced in a post game analysis of their lost as a case study that, "I gnnipped when I should have gnopped." We need to find this commericial and add this to a new wisdom and philosphy section of the article. I can't find this but I am not good at the internet.

rest of talk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6017:194:F960:4631:4ABE:9937 (talk) 15:45, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently Raymond Queneau used the term "Gnip-gnop" to refer to a table game in his 1959 novel Zazie in the Metro. Perhaps he was referring to ping pong, but this clearly antedates the usage by Parker Bros.

It is fun to think of playing "mental Gnip-Gnop"... Think about it. Do you always win, or always lose? Yeah, and no wonder they went bankrupt, right? Why pay for it when you can play mental Gnip-Gnop for free, and always win? And of coarse the other advantage is that you can play it solo against anybody you want to publicly humiliate, and they'll never even know anything at all. KarlHegbloom (talk) 23:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]