BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST,Wilfred Penifere
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 12:23 PM

Tiddlywinks is a wonderful game, a game for real men. I was the reigning champion of my entire district for 5 years. There are few in England who can squap a wink better than I.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 01:36 PM

We only got to wear nettle diapers on special occasions, like when the witch doctor came over to remove and examine at our entrails to predict the weather. He always put them back, but sometimes deposited them in the wrong place. My liver is still under my left knee, which does give me a noticible limp. As a side effect, it seems to have contributed to our birth control, as I limply go about my manly tasks.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 11:52 AM

I'm relieved that it was you, Rap. I don't think the world could survive another one like you... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 11:43 AM

The last GUEST was me. I had to pawn my cookie but I've got it back now.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 05:11 PM

Which is better, a nod or a wink?

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 09:29 AM

Plywood? Ptooi! WHEN we had underwear (which wasn't often) it was made from discarded cactus plants and poison ivy leaves. My baby sister had nettles in her diaper (when she had one) to absorb the "bodily fluids." My first set of "real" underwear had been cut off a dead tramp ("Filthy Frank") and partially burned by the Health Department, but I was glad to get it so I could go to school (where I excelled in everything and, a poor but honest lad, reveled in learning and eventually -- and totally through my OWN efforts -- was eventually considered for Nobel Prizes in physics, peace, chemistry, economics, medicine and literature. When the call came I refused it because I couldn't spare the time from my research into vaccines for malaria, HIV, genetic surgery, ending poverty and unemployment, bringing the nations of the Middle East together, and writing.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 11:44 PM

I'd tell you guys how tough MY childhood was, but I wouldn't want to completely destroy your fragile ego structures and leave you lying on the ground in shock, helplessly vulnerable to savage attacks by carrion-eating chihauhaus.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 05:42 PM

""Prickly undies huh. Do you think it might catch on?""

I recall them catching on a few parts of me manhood and I have the scars to rember the occasion.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 12:59 PM

Prickly undies huh. Do you think it might catch on?

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 09:42 AM

Lucky, you think? The undies, as we liked to call 'em were made of splintery plywood, with the many nails pointing in. But, we did not complain, because we would be "punched in da head" if we did.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 09:06 AM

We often made our own yellow snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 07:48 AM

UNDIES?? Yu had undies. You were lucky, I said YOU WERE LUCKY!

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 07:31 AM

We had water-tight compartments installed in our undies to collect water.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 04:32 AM

Was Princess Diana a secret tiddly winker? Squidgygate

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 11:12 PM

We WERE fortunate to have the occasional fire to warm us, but the flames always froze solid instantly. We used to use them for sword fighting over squidge-offs.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 08:54 PM

The yellow sand was mostly sourced from camels, who do not relieve themselves frequently. We would track the humpy beasts accross the desert for months in the hot sun, without another morsel to eat. We shared the few yellow grains from the drifting sand storms, sifting the few atoms of water out of the yellow sand from the camel crap with our toothless mouths. The crap would be saved, to form into tiddly wink shaped pellets, that we used to suck on in the driest periods.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 08:13 PM

We used to warm up eating the yellow snow when it was nice and fresh. People who lived in a desert were lucky because they could take turns standing in each others shade -- WE had cold and there was no hiding from it. I remember one time it warmed up to five kilometers below zero! We would have gone swimming if all the water wasn't frozen.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 07:09 PM

We lived in a desert and ate yellow sand, and were happy to have it.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 05:44 PM

Many's the time all we had to eat was snow, and yellow snow at that. It wasn't very filling but it tasted terrible. I guess we were lucky to have it.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 05:33 PM

Snow and pine needle soup with spruce gum for spice?

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 01:04 PM

Flood in the Lavatory.   by I P Squint

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 01:00 PM

We could not afford a chamber pot. We free ranged.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 11:24 AM

You were lucky... OUR toothbrush also had to do double-duty to scrub the chamber pot--- and the chamber pot was only a rusty hubcap.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 10:31 AM

All of our teeth rotted out, we could only afford one tooth brush for the entire family.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 10:08 PM

You were wealthy indeed. We used the pieces of teeth left on the floor after the usual fights.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 09:53 PM

Our winks were used banjo picks.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 06:18 PM

No, I've just potted out. You lost.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 03:41 PM

What? No challengers?

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 12:36 PM

Geez...who could go for squapping a wink or two right now? Hmm?

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 11:32 AM

Luxury, the wheels that we had, that were stolen before we got them, were square.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25831992@N03/2724551187/

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 11:14 AM

That's the epitome of wussdom. Our bikes didn't have spokes. And some of the less well-off kids didn't even have seats.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 10:45 AM

Wassn't no cars when I wuz a nipper. We stole the back wheels off'n these
All they had left was these

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 10:14 AM

Yes he did, 'cause he lived next door to the topless-bottomless-sideless cardboard box my family lived in. And the cars that hubcaps were stolen from were those which were driven by people with an income. The really tough kids also stole their wheels and tires as they passed by, spitting on us who had a negative income balance. When they'd do that we all ran out and stole the car's body and engine as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 09:24 AM

Oh no you didn't!

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 08:45 AM

We lived in an abandoned car, with no windows, motor, seats, wheels or hubcaps. But, we were evicted from the car. We were then forced to live under a volkswagen camper trunk lid, all forty of us kids. Yes, we did.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 08:12 AM

You guys are from the rich folks' yard. We didn't have cars.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 09:58 PM

""their older siblings stole hubcaps from moving cars""

Luxury! The moving cars in our neighbourhood did'nt have hubcaps or wheels.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 09:25 PM

After we sold all of our winks we still had the urge to tiddly. We, however, lived in a VERY rough and tough neighborhood. For instance, babies where weaned straight to cheap whiskey and their older siblings stole hubcaps from moving cars. So we used manhole covers as winks and the basement of houses as a pot (roofs were never an obstacle). This added a new and exciting dimension, as sometimes you had to squidge off standing in the sewer.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 07:00 PM

It's the ennui' of the game I find seductive

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 06:49 PM

Trixy and tiddly

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 03:52 PM

This guy plays tiddlywinks

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 12:45 PM

"I first realised I was a winker when I completed a double-squop at my first competition and saw that wink drop in the pot winning me the competition and scooping me the prize of 35 pence. From then on I couldn't go a day without ploinking my tiddly in a pot," Russell told Winking World, the official journal of the English Tiddlywinks Association."

When he was almost the 2008 tiddlywinks world champ.

His story can be read here and it's a story worth reading, imo. It is a tale filled with wit, political intrigue and one man's insightful observations. Here's to you Russell Brand. It should be mentioned that he is an Englishman.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: BTNG
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 10:42 AM

"If you think you're potting out"

we tried potting out once, but got nicked and charged with possession with intent to traffic.....

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 10:34 AM

(Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes
(Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes
(Tiddly Pom)
On snowing.

And nobody knows
(Tiddly Pom)
How cold my toes
(Tiddly Pom)
How cold my toes
(Tiddly Pom)
Are growing.

The more it snows
(Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes
(Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes
(Tiddly Pom)
On snowing.

And nobody knows
(Tiddly Pom)
How gold my toes
(Tiddly Pom)
How cold my toes
(Tiddly Pom)
Are growing.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 10:15 AM

"We used to play Tiddlywinks where I grew up. But, we later stoped because we could'nt get enough hay to feed the horses."

Hay, no tiddly. Has a nice ring to it. Might make a catchy song intro.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 09:49 AM

We played Tiddlywinks when I was but a tad, but one by one we had to sell the winks to make ends meet and eventually all we had was tiddly.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 07:34 AM

Starbucks beware

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 07:30 AM

We used to play Tiddlywinks where I grew up. But, we later stoped because we could'nt get enough hay to feed the horses.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 04:35 AM

I was a tiddlywinks fan back in the old rough and tumble days, but I haven't watched a tournament since they started disqualifying players for trying to intentionally put opponents' eyes out.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiddlywinks: effete, jejeune, outre!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 04:16 AM

Canine tiddlywinks