Caught off guard

[LD_Tickler]

Every now and then we talk about hearing mention of tickling in a surprising way. I just had one such encounter.

I was playing my new Xbox 360 game (Dragon Age: Origins 😀 ). It's a roleplaying game set in a world that mistrusts magic. I was talking to a bratty young witch who asked if I thought she should be tied to a stake and burnt. I was given the option to respond "maybe just tied to the flagpole and tickled."

Obviously I went with that option. Still, a completely unexpected reference, that even had some bondage thrown in there and tickling in the context of punishment! Made me smile...

So, what are your funniest/most memorable surprise encounters with a mention of our favourite activity?

 

[Deleted member 66627]

The first Sims game had an option to tickle someone. I don't know if they still have that feature, but I was rather young when I played it and incredibly embarrassed to even look at the word.

 

[TiCKleMaN87]

The first Sims game had an option to tickle someone. SIZE]

I remember that.

Mine was a few years back when I was a baker at Tim Hortons. Our store was open 24/7 but we had closed for Christmas and re-opened early boxing day. I worked nights so I didn't work until boixng day night but there were other employees that came in a few hours before the store opened to get ready.
I wasn't there, but the next morning (the 27th, I know, i'm hard to follow😉) one of the girls who was there came in for her shift and proceeded to tell me how, before the store opened, another girl had pinned her to the drive-thru floor and tickled the crap out of her.

Needless to say, I nearly dropped a tray full of donuts on the ground.

 

[Tiger.Lily]

The first Sims game had an option to tickle someone. I don't know if they still have that feature, but I was rather young when I played it and incredibly embarrassed to even look at the word.

This...but with Sims Online. Real people. Interaction. A "tickle fight" option. It was always kind of unexpected when someone I was chatting with used it, but it gave me those butterflies.

 

[Artoo]

The first Sims game had an option to tickle someone. I don't know if they still have that feature, but I was rather young when I played it and incredibly embarrassed to even look at the word.

Yeah, I remember this. Some of the characters got really pissed off if you tickled them for too long...

 

[LD_Tickler]

This...but with Sims Online. Real people. Interaction. A "tickle fight" option. It was always kind of unexpected when someone I was chatting with used it, but it gave me those butterflies.

The precursor to TMF cybering, perhaps? 😛

 

[Master_Magnus]

Dragon age origins is a piece of shit. The cooldown of those shapeshifting spells, and the abilities of those animal forms takes ages, the instant cooldown trainer from cheat happens is only for members that pay for membership (I would be the most stupid motherfucker in the world to pay them for anything after all the anger they put me through) the excel processor that should convert excel files into gda files does not do it, and no one ever think about creating a mod that removes the cooldown. As I said I would do it myself, but the motherfucking excel processor does not create gda files from the excel ones.
Sorry for the off-topic but I couldnt bear anymore seeing people praising this piece of shit. The creators of this game should just make the spells cost alot of mana. Those ones that dont have enough mana are not using them, and the people that have mana ocean instead of a mana pool could use them anytime, that's how it should have worked, otherwise the whole thing with the cooldowns is just a worthless piece of shit. I advise people not to buy this game, unless something is done about it, cause I can honestly say it was one of the most disappointments I've ever seen.

 

[La_Violetta]

Wow, a huge chunk of nerdrage up there.

Most MMO's that I've played have a tickle emote. There was one time I was playing WoW and it came into use. I was running my Night Elf through the Barrens during the first Winter's Veil, back when snowballs could knock a character down. About 3 Horde players ran up and pelted my character with snowballs until she fell down. Then they proceeded to all just start using the tickling emote and hitting her with another snowball whenever she'd get up. They did that for maybe a minute before moving on.

Unexpected, but it certainly made me smile.

 

[Phineas]

Here's one from the non-videogame world.

I was just flipping through my October 2008 issue of Guitar World when I came across a review of the Peterson Body Beat metronome. The very last line of the review reads as follows (bolding mine):

With the unit in vibrate mode, I found it much easier to maintain tempo, even when I was playing complex rhythms. The downside for me (though others may love it) is that the Vibe Clip tickles!

Skipping over to the Bottom Line: Pros and Cons sidebar, we see this as well (again, bolding mine):

PROS: Unique pulse feature; flexible rhythms; easy to use
CONS: Not for the ticklish