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28 Jul 07 - 08:38 PM (#2113680) Subject: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 Okay.....So how many of you other preeverts figured this as a sexual reference? ..............uh,yeah.......... This is "Cornhole." Now I'm 58 years old, grew up in the great unwashed midwest, have always been a student of history and folklore, but I swear to you that until a few months ago I had NEVER heard the word cornhole applied in any way except for anal sex! So imagine my surprise to see an ad in a local weekly paper about a "Two-Man Cornhole Tournament." I mean I knew that we'd become a lot more open in our sexual mores and morals but what the fuck? Connie and Wayne had both not only heard of it but had often played. Now when I played the game it was just another beanbag toss game and I honestly don't remember anyone referring to it as "cornhole." Matter of fact, that word was common slang of my Dad's generation, at least in the strongly ethnic Italian-American community where I grew up. And as things often go, after I read that I ran across all kinds of references to the game from all kinds of people all over the place. Seems like everyone but me knew it as Cornhole and many even had a game set in their garage. So help me out here and let me know if there are different names for other games that I should be aware of so as not to be surprised as happened with Cornhole. I mean, like, uh.....Is there some simple kid's game called Tittyfuck or something I should know about? Spaw |
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28 Jul 07 - 09:01 PM (#2113695) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Dave Swan Yeah....and there's a game called DROP THE SOAP where you toss bars of Ivory into a clown's mouth..... |
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28 Jul 07 - 09:03 PM (#2113697) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Bee-dubya-ell Millions of midwesterners essentially callin' a kid's game "buttfuck", and they call us southerners slow. |
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28 Jul 07 - 09:09 PM (#2113701) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 Scroll down THIS PAGE......I dunno' whether I should order the hat, the shirt, or both. Maybe I have to join the American Cornhole Association first? I can't believe this crap either Bee-Dub. Spaw |
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28 Jul 07 - 09:12 PM (#2113705) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Dave Swan aww, dammit. Somebody capilalize Ivory for me, will ya? It might make it a LITTLE funnier. |
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28 Jul 07 - 09:15 PM (#2113706) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: robomatic It reminds me of the pitiful attempt of some people who resent the sequencing of the first four letters of the word "hello" and have tried to interest people in using the term "heaveno". |
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28 Jul 07 - 10:09 PM (#2113726) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Rapparee I'm older than you are Spaw and I too grew up in the Great Midwest. I've worked and lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana and I have never, ever heard of "cornhole" used in this way! We had bean-bag tosses, horseshoes, all sorts of stuff but if you said to someone, "Let's cornhole!" or "Wanna cornhole?" you'd be in a world of hurt. |
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28 Jul 07 - 10:54 PM (#2113751) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 Well thanks rap for not letting me feel the total idiot! Seriously, it seems that everyone I meet knows all about Cornhole as a separate bag toss game. I still can't believe it............. Spaw |
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28 Jul 07 - 11:38 PM (#2113764) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: katlaughing Good gawd, Spaw, where do you find these things (aside from Connie and Wayne's, I mean!) LMAO...I have a bunch of gay friends who'll pee their pants when they see those t-shirts! |
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29 Jul 07 - 12:10 PM (#2114030) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 I have a shirt from a now defunct sailmaker named Hard Sails and it says, Sail with a Hard On. Somehow this one is much worse. Spaw |
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29 Jul 07 - 01:11 PM (#2114068) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: SINSULL "I am Cornholio. I need TP for my bung hole." Yeah, I know - it's cornjulio. |
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29 Jul 07 - 01:35 PM (#2114085) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Jeri Thread seepage: I had a boss who would occasionally lapse into Bevis & Butthead routines/voices. There's not much funnier (in a reassuringly strange way) than hearing this coming from an Air Force Lt. Col. I remember seeing an electric corn cob once in an outhouse. |
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29 Jul 07 - 01:36 PM (#2114087) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: SINSULL Used???? Gross????? |
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29 Jul 07 - 01:40 PM (#2114089) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Jeri I don't think anybody used it, Mary. There was no electricity. |
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29 Jul 07 - 01:48 PM (#2114094) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Charley Noble Spaw- I don't think there is a kernel of truth to your "Cornhole" story. I believe that you somehow knocked together the whole website that the link leads to so that we would get an earfull. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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29 Jul 07 - 02:09 PM (#2114102) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Dave Swan Sail with a Hard On makes me think of my friend Lj's Hobie cat which he used to race. Professionally lettered down the length of one hull was the boat's name. So, as Lj got her trimmed just right and the starboard hull rose out of the water, she revealed her name for all to see. Blow Job. No sailing magazine ever printed the photos he sent. |
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29 Jul 07 - 03:48 PM (#2114162) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Charley Noble Dave- An appropriate name for your friend's dinghy might be Breaking Wind. My favorite pair of names for boat and dinghy are The Golden Hind and The Hind End. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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30 Jul 07 - 06:28 AM (#2114561) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Grab Dave, that reminds me of something that got two TV presenters over here into a spot of bother. Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood had a breakfast show for young teens ("Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow"). There was apparently a section on there called "Wake up with Wood", and the guy was officially reprimanded by the BBC for wearing a T-shirt saying "Morning Wood". The kids loved it... Graham. |
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30 Jul 07 - 09:05 AM (#2114655) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: JJ In 2005 I visited old friends near Wooster, Ohio, who took me to a 4th of July party on a farm out in the country. One of the games offered for kids was "corn hole" (as it was rendered on the invitation). "Corn hole?" I asked in disbelief. "Corn hole," my friends (who are not natives of the area) solemnly replied. They assured me it was common there. I still have a PDF of the invitation... |
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30 Jul 07 - 09:27 AM (#2114678) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 See, that's what gets me. I was born and grew up just 30 miles away from there and I swear I never heard it called "Cornhole" until this summer! Spaw |
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30 Jul 07 - 09:30 AM (#2114680) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: GUEST,Russ Spaw, I'm with you on this one. I cannot believe my eyes. Grew up in WV and I too have never heard the word "cornhole" applied in any way except for anal sex. I would have serious problems using the term in mixed company even if it referred to a game. Are you sure that the link is not to a parallel universe? Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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30 Jul 07 - 10:55 AM (#2114743) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: GUEST,leeneia I'm a midwesterner, with friends both from city and country. I've never heard the word cornhole in my life, whatever the meaning intended. By the way, everybody who has the means and their sanity bathes regularly. |
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30 Jul 07 - 01:23 PM (#2114881) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: KB in Iowa Born and bred here in the Midwest. This is the first I have heard of cornhole as a kids game. I have heard of the other version. |
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30 Jul 07 - 05:13 PM (#2115033) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: catspaw49 Ah yes....more validation I am not completely nuts! On the other hand, I was camping last weekend back home in east Ohio and a guy just down from us was inviting folks down to his site for cornhole tournament............... Spaw |
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30 Jul 07 - 06:14 PM (#2115060) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: PoppaGator Amazing, really. I had never heard of such a thing, either. On a slightly different topic (although one already previously addressed above), let me pass along the title of a rather amazing old-ish blues record I heard on the radio last week: "Blow Job Blues," sing by a female vocalist. Sounded like maybe 1930s-era, with jazz-orchestra instrumentation. The lyrics clearly made reference to a blow-dried-type hairdo, and didn't even have any obvious double-entrendre reference to oral sex ~ but somebody must have know that that title, and the oft-repeated tag line "I've got those blow-job blues," would have to raise an eyebrow or two. |
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30 Jul 07 - 10:00 PM (#2115177) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Les B Spaw - I'm from the intermountain west and I haven't heard that term since the 1950's - and it sure wasn't a bean bag game the cowboys talked about then. Somehow I suspect this is a dastardly plot by the Man-Boy Love Association - especially that page with all the paraphernalia ! |
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02 Aug 07 - 03:35 PM (#2117594) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: Hollowfox (Spaw, you're no more nuts than usual, as far as I can tell.) The term's a new one for me, for any definition. Either the phrase didn't get to my (northeast) corner of Ohio, or somehow, occasionally, folks watched their vocabulary in front of me when I was a wee slip of a girl. |
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02 Aug 07 - 03:46 PM (#2117611) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: George Papavgeris I must live a sheltered life. Spaw, I never heard the term used for anything, not even for anal sex, as you mention in your first post. In Britain, when we pop corn, we do it in a pan, or more recently in a microwave. Clearly, I must be careful when asking for it in the States! |
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02 Aug 07 - 04:02 PM (#2117626) Subject: RE: BS: Wanna' Cornhole? From: TheSnail As soon as I saw the picture of the Cornhole board I thought "That looks familiar". Here in south-east England we have a game called Toad in the Hole and it seems they are related. http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Pitching-Discs.htm The real game is played with brass disks and the table top is a slab of lead not that feeble commercial version. I've never heard any obscene interpretation but the more common meaning is a meal made with sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter. Hmmmm... |