A Word Game! Come in and Join! :D

[Ignatz]

Hey, it was fun while it lasted. Anyone for mumblety-peg?

 

[Budweiserbob!]

I AM IGNATZ! XD

1 question though. What is that? (lol)

Yeah, this thread was fun while it lasted! The longest thread that I have ever posted! 😀

 

[wk23]

No!! This can't be it! We must press on!! We can't stop now!!! The three-word game.....let's GO!!!!!!



ok, yeah. you guys are right. that's it. 🙂

 

[Ignatz]

I AM IGNATZ! XD

1 question though. What is that? (lol)

Yeah, this thread was fun while it lasted! The longest thread that I have ever posted! 😀

mum·ble·ty-peg
n.

A game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground.

(From the phrase mumble the peg, from the fact that originally the loser had to pull up with the teeth a peg driven in the ground.)
The rules were varied and complex, differing widely from region to region (kind of like Calvinball).

 

[Budweiserbob!]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....

How come I've never heard of this game?
😛

 

[Ignatz]

Oh, it's a piece of dead Americana really, the sort of thing Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would have played. It was already rare by the time of my childhood in the 1950's, though I remember seeing older kids play it occasionally. Nowadays, of course, if a kid even thought about throwing a jack-knife around, he'd be dogpiled by parents, teachers, counselors, lawyers and social workers.

 

[nessonite1]

When I was in school we'd play it using a pencil...holding the hand flat on the table and stabbing the pencil inbetween the fingers as fast as you could. Not quite as dangerous as using a knife. 😛

Wana play it virtually? Check this out...uber-fun 😀

http://www.dragongamez.com/5fingerfillet.htm

I got in 90 stabs with a score of 2820. 😀

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

I know my dad used to play a similar game when he was in the Scouts - they called it "splits".

You stood with your legs together, facing your opponent. Then you'd throw the knife, and wherever it landed, they had to move the closest leg to that position. Eventually, you'd both be doing the splits rather uncomfortably. The first one to fall over lost. Alternatively, if the knife fell between the opponents legs, they could stand feet together again.
As a slight variation on this theme, being that they were playing it during Scout camps, they used hand-axes instead....

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

When I was in school we'd play it using a pencil...holding the hand flat on the table and stabbing the pencil inbetween the fingers as fast as you could. Not quite as dangerous as using a knife. 😛

Wana play it virtually? Check this out...uber-fun 😀

http://www.dragongamez.com/5fingerfillet.htm

I got in 90 stabs with a score of 2820. 😀

I tried it - got 22 stabs with a score of 340. 😀 Also, someone in school thought it would be fun to play this game using MY hand - the end of the pencil is still lodged near a knuckle to this day... 🙁

 

[wk23]

I know my dad used to play a similar game when he was in the Scouts - they called it "splits".

You stood with your legs together, facing your opponent. Then you'd throw the knife, and wherever it landed, they had to move the closest leg to that position. Eventually, you'd both be doing the splits rather uncomfortably. The first one to fall over lost. Alternatively, if the knife fell between the opponents legs, they could stand feet together again.
As a slight variation on this theme, being that they were playing it during Scout camps, they used hand-axes instead....

Something about having your legs spread apart, coupled with a knife or hand-ax thrown in my vicinity.....no thanks!! 😀

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

I know - you'd think most people would have more sense to be throwing axes between other guys' legs - apparently, my dad and his childhood mates weren't among "most people". 😛

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Missed It By That Much......................................

Then Are You Sure He's Your Biological Father?

 

[Ignatz]

Howdy, folks. Buck Hicker here. My nephew Ignatz said I could jump in here and talk to y'all whenever he ain't around. Hope you don't mind.
Anyhow, I ain't played mumblety-peg since a terrible accident I had when I was a young feller working for the highway department. Me and the rest of the crew was standing around the right of way, waiting for the truck to get back from the yard with another load of premix. Cruz and I got to playing mumblety-peg just to pass the time, but I forgot that Cruz was the old boy who run our jackhammer and he always wore steel toe boots, so when I missed my aim and hit his foot it snapped about a inch off the tip of my good Randall knife which my daddy had give me. Cruz was real sorry about it and offered to buy me a new one, but I guess he forgot 'cause he never got around to it. I didn't push it 'cause I kindly figured it was at least partly my fault.
So...let that be a lesson to you. I'll talk at y'all later.

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Omg! Let's Start The Game Again...........

The Sexiest Pair

 

[Ignatz]

of matched thoroughbred

 

[nessonite1]

racehorses

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

that ever

 

[-Kunoke-]

crossed the great

 

[MistressValerie1]

Wall of China

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

in a speedboat.

 

[-Kunoke-]

with a large

 

[Budweiserbob!]

Pair of 1970's

 

[nessonite1]

fuzzy dice

 

[wk23]

inside his Pinto

 

[Budweiserbob!]

cheese stick. 😀