BS: Aunt Sally

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 04:27 AM

"The neon coloured cider is Cheddar Valley - I drank loads once when a few esteemed musicians had a session in the clown. I played the first line to a load of tunes then fell off my stool. Little luke fell asleep in the corner."

LOL! That cider is sick and wrong. For some reason I thought that a proficiency at petanque would see me right at Aunt Sally. Mind you, I played again that night, in the dark, and wasn't too bad!

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 03:46 AM

Well the house next door to the clown has a few less tiles thanks to me, in my first league match my first stick ended up in the field down the road. The second one was a perfect doll, but by the end of the night I was taking divots out of the grass. Its one of those games that looks so easy!

The neon coloured cider is Cheddar Valley - I drank loads once when a few esteemed musicians had a session in the clown. I played the first line to a load of tunes then fell off my stool. Little luke fell asleep in the corner.

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 03:33 AM

Joe, I got to take Tommy Tanner's place (he generously abdicated after my pronouncement that "I've never played, but I always wanted to - I think I'd be really good") during the Aunt Sally tournament on Sunday at Bampton this year. I had drunk copious amounts of neon-coloured cider at the Clown first, though I'm not sure how much this affected the end result, which was that I failed to hit anything. Not one single thing. All afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Chris Green
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 02:48 PM

There's an Aunt Sally range at The Bell at Adderbury. They also sell the full complement of Hook Norton ales, which is another damn fine reason for going there. After sampling them all, you'll be doing quite well if you can hit ANYTHING with a stick!

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 02:54 AM

There used to be an Aunt Sally team at the Baker's Arms, Cardigan Street, Jericho, when the Heritage folk club met there... good to see that the Folly Bridge Arms (where the Oxford folk club now meets) still has an Aunt Sally team!

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 12:57 PM

I'm going to Great-Aunt Sally's. I'm bringing crispy cookies. I can go. What are you bringing?

Totally different game!

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 12:23 PM

I was once in the lovely village of Bampton in the Bush. I was thrilled to find we were staying at a pub with it's own Morris team. Then we went to the next pub. They had there own Morris team as well. And the next... Then we were asked if we were there for Aunt Sally and taken to the back of the pub where people appeared to be throwing skittles at a ball. The village was much darker and scarier when we left the pub and noticed all the boarded up houses where young men were taken prisoner and made to dance morris until they went mad...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 01:32 PM

Ah, Emma, that makes much more sense with the background filled in like that. Thanks so much. It makes all the difference.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 12:21 PM

'The phrase "Aunt Sally" is often used to describe a person or organisation at whom it is easy to take a cheap shot.

The phrase originated in the 19th century as a fairground game, in which a doll or moppet was set up, usually taking the form of an old woman, in whose mouth was a pipe. The object of the exercise was that players had a number of balls to throw at the effigy in the hope of dislodging the pipe from its mouth.

By 1898, the game was sufficiently well-known that the expression "Aunt Sally" could be used figuratively to describe someone who was the object of attack, both easy and unwarranted.'

Sort of like the threads at times :)

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 12:03 PM

DOn' tell Unca John
'Bout long tall Sally,
HE saw his baby coming and he ducked down in the alley,
Oh, baby!
Gonna have some fun tonight!
Bayyyybee,
Gonna have some fun tonight.

Long tall Sally
She built sweet,
She got evathing that Unca John needs,
Oh, baby!
Gonna have some fun tonight!
Bayyyybee,
Gonna have some fun tonight.

My apologies. Of course I should have known that the thread was referring to an obscure English pub sport known mostly only in Oxford, involving throwing sticks at a doll. Really, I should have. For some things, there is no excuse for ignorance, and I am sure this must be one of them. Thoughtless of me.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 11:49 AM

Oxford and District have their own Aunt Sally Association, sponsored by Green King Fine Ales(1799)


Aunt Sally In Oxford

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Azizi
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 11:01 AM

Amos, don't tell me that Uncle Tom was cheatin on Aunt Jemima with Aunt Sally?!

And they're being sisters and all that...

For shame!

;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 10:59 AM

The Rules of Aunt Sally

Subject: RE: BS: Aunt Sally
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 10:43 AM

Is that the same Aunt Sally who features in ELvis Presley's bebop song about uncle Tom?


A

Subject: BS: Aunt Sally
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 10:35 AM

Does anyone else play Aunt Sally? Can I confidently claim the title of worst player to have played league aunt sally?