>>>Don't know if you ever played the game of deaf telephones - it was quite popular when I was a kid. The players line up, first one whispers the sentence to the second, second to third etc, and the last one pronounces it aloud. Then the first one pronounces the original, and everyone gets a good laugh from the distortion.
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>>Yes, we played it the way you did, we called it wireless telephone - what an avant-garde name!!
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>In my neighborhood, it was called "Whisper down the lane."
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>Tamar

In Russia it was called "the broken telephone"