[HN Gopher] How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling t...
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How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling to the country
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-04-12 13:31 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
| jowdones wrote:
| "Forbidden
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| You don't have permission to access /roundtable/rules-games-
| tudor-england on this server."
|
| Am I the only one getting this? Would be discriminatory.
| neonate wrote:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20230414013647/https://www.lapham...
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| https://archive.ph/MucWL
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| ggm wrote:
| We played "split the kipper" in Scotland over 50 years ago with
| pocket knives which is Mumbledypeg by another name.
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| Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford dictionary of children's games,
| written in the 60s, is fascinating.
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| 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.
| aquova wrote:
| I played it as a kid in Nebraska as well, except you had to
| throw it at your opponent's foot, rather than your own. For
| that reason, we would play it with screwdrivers rather than
| knives.
| 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.
| KMag wrote:
| You threw the knife as close to the outer edge of your foot
| as possible, and then moved your stance wider, so that the
| knife was then on the inside of the foot. In this way, your
| stance got wider and wider, until on player couldn't move
| their feet wide enough to continue. Also, your opponent had
| to reach the knife and pull it from the ground in order to
| start their turn. Falling over also constituted losing the
| game. Are we talking about the same game?
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| We called it whitley-peg, and we played it with shovels in
| the boy scouts in the mid-to-late 1990s to avoid being
| caught doing such nonsense with a knife (and getting our
| totin' chip torn up by a responsible adult).
| ggm wrote:
| Yes. we're talking about the same game. There's probably
| a hundred variations but to me, substantively these are
| the same game.
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| There is a cartoon by Johnny Hart of one of the "B.C."
| characters playing a variant where the knife balances on
| the back of the hand, and is flipped and he winds up
| "stabbing" his shadow which peter-pan like, complains.
| ticviking wrote:
| Losin you totin' chip was the worst.
| 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.
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| Facinating how thing persist.
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
| JohnFen wrote:
| I played "mumbletypeg" as a child, but until this very moment
| it never occurred to me that was a corruption of "mumble-the-
| peg".
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| Fun to see "Bloody Knuckles" referenced on that wikipedia page,
| too. Ahh, the good old days.
| 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.
| autoexec wrote:
| Instruction on how to play mumchance doesn't appear anywhere in
| the text I could find. wikipedia has very little info
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumchance
| SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
| Is hurling a uniquely Irish thing? I had an Irishman describe it
| to me recently. I consider myself a decently well traveled gent
| and I had never heard of it before.
| mr_magoo wrote:
| Yes, its unique to Ireland (exceptions that prove the rule are
| some Irish expat communities have established teams in their
| new home countries)
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