[HN Gopher] How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling t...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling to the country
        
       Author : Amorymeltzer
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-04-12 13:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | We played "split the kipper" in Scotland over 50 years ago with
       | pocket knives which is Mumbledypeg by another name.
       | 
       | Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford dictionary of children's games,
       | written in the 60s, is fascinating.
       | 
       | https://www.opiearchive.org/
        
         | failrate wrote:
         | Mumbletypeg was still played in Illinois when I was a kid,
         | although the rules changed to trying to get your knife into the
         | ground as close to your foot as possible.
        
           | ggm wrote:
           | Yes. that's the same variation we played. That's why the
           | teachers banned it, and we moved to playing it in the green
           | spaces away from supervision after school.
           | 
           | It says a lot about the Scots diet it's named after smoked
           | fish there.
        
       | andyjohnson0 wrote:
       | In Cormac McCarthy's novel _No Country for Old Men_ , one of the
       | characters mentions playing "mumbley-peg" as a child in pre-WW2
       | southern USA. According to wikipedia [1] this is an alternative
       | spelling of the Tudor english "mumble-the-peg" game mentioned in
       | the article.
       | 
       | Facinating how thing persist.
       | 
       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
        
       | danjoredd wrote:
       | I grew up in Texas and I grew up playing "mumble the peg." We
       | called it "Mumbly-peg" though, so its weird hearing the game be
       | called something else.
        
         | marmalar wrote:
         | Grew up in Western New York and called it the same thing
         | ("Mumbly-peg"). Though our version was where you simply drop
         | the knife between your feet and then move one foot inward until
         | touches the knife, then repeat until you chicken out. Looks
         | like Wikipedia contains a similar variation:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2023-04-13 23:01 UTC)