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BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!

19 Feb 10 - 05:59 PM (#2844546)
Subject: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Little Hawk

Check out this grueling competition for the World's Champion!!!!

You'll be breathing hard before this video is over...

It doesn't get more exciting than THIS....


19 Feb 10 - 06:10 PM (#2844556)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Don Firth

Be still, my fluttering heart!

Actually, the game seems to have gone a bit wimpy. When I was a kid, we used to do that with manhole covers. . . .

I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

Don Firth


19 Feb 10 - 06:13 PM (#2844561)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: gnu

Good for the auto repair garages, Don.


19 Feb 10 - 06:21 PM (#2844571)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: olddude

Now that just replaced my Crazy Horse webcam sculpture construction as my favourite video of all time LOL


19 Feb 10 - 06:30 PM (#2844578)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Bill D

That brings back memories.... well, a few.... I have actually played tiddly winks when I was a kid. It must have been before my brother & I got a ping-pong table.


19 Feb 10 - 06:47 PM (#2844589)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Little Hawk

I'm not sure if I ever played it, but it seems likely that I would have at some point. what are those other weird things with the little metal legs? Jacks?


19 Feb 10 - 07:12 PM (#2844604)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: katlaughing

I LOVE Tiddlywinks! My grandma used to play them with me. Morgan and I play them, now. She also played Chinese Checkers with me. I found a vintage board in its original box years ago at a tag sale back East. Morgan and I get out my tin of marbles and have a blast with it, as well.

Jacks! My sisters and I LOVED playing Jacks, too!


19 Feb 10 - 07:14 PM (#2844609)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Little Hawk

How does one play Jacks? I have completely forgotten.

Marbles, on the other hand, I will never forget. Those were the days!


19 Feb 10 - 08:22 PM (#2844651)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Don Firth

I think I've lost my marbles. . . .

Don Firth


19 Feb 10 - 08:24 PM (#2844653)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Melissa

What's a smint?


19 Feb 10 - 08:28 PM (#2844654)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Little Hawk

I don't know, but it's clearly incredibly cool, whatever it is.


19 Feb 10 - 08:50 PM (#2844664)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: Melissa

I had a sudden, burning need to know just how cool..and was driven to wikipedia.

Smints are candy.


20 Feb 10 - 09:42 AM (#2844981)
Subject: RE: BS: The most exciting game in the world!!!!
From: MGM·Lion

A college friend of my wife's in the 1960s did actually marry a man who was All-Britain tiddlywinks champion and led Cambridge University to victory against Oxford three years running*. It is a very skilful game, in fact. I think the ill-placed scorn it attracts is to do with its silly name (wonder who invented that); and far too redolent of the ill-thinking and ill-thought attitude of many who should know better about the Morris.

*from Wiki ~
"The modern competitive adult game (now called tiddlywinks) made a strong comeback at the University of Cambridge in 1955." I found the article quite interesting...