Of course I wondered what this meant, and googled it. I'd never heard of it, but this is one of the posts (from 2003!) about it I found:
In Reply to: Re: White Rabbits posted by ESC on April 01, 2003
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Never heard of this custom, but the game I played in NY and L.A. as a child, where you run up, knock on a door and run away is called "White Rabbit" in England (source:ex-Monkee Davy Jones, in a 1966 interview). I remember the reference, 'cause we never knew the game had a name!
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_b...sages/278.html