I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?

Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

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Penny B. - Feb 27, 2003 7:50:07 am PST #2256 of 9843
Nobody

However, if I'm listening to a Canadian I can tell after a while. To me most of them sound a little Scottish.

Putting Caroma on some kind of list.


evil jimi - Feb 27, 2003 7:53:17 am PST #2257 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

I would love to be able to play dodge ball again.

Well, watch out for hyena people then.

A lot of what was listed in moonlit's post resonates with me, too. However, with even more cars on the roads nowadays, it's probably a good thing that seatbelt and bike helmets are enforced by law.

I can still remember the cuts and bruises we used to give and get, while playing red rover at lunchtime in Primary school. We were murderous little buggers, who thought nothing of elbowing someone in the throat to get away.

When we weren't playing red rover, we were playing "brandy" in the old tennis court. No net but really high chain-link fences, so perfect for a game. When you Americans say "dodge ball" do you specifically mean the type of game we saw in "The Pack"? Our game of "brandy" was played with a tennis ball and no teams. You got hit, you waited outside the fence until the next game. The ball comes your way, you grab it and throw it at whomever you want. Last boy or girl standing is the winner.


Lady O' Spain - Feb 27, 2003 7:55:23 am PST #2258 of 9843
Red hair and black leather--my favorite color scheme.

**popping in for a moment**

I just have to say that I find all of this cricket information very, well, informative. Wish I'd known all this ten years ago when I first read Life, the Universe, and Everything. Large chunks of that book made no sense to me whatsoever.

Of course, that's pretty much par for the course when I'm reading Adams. I completely and totally did not get the end of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency because I went into it not knowing a damn thing about "Xanadu" or Coleridge. This led to an amazing epiphany in the middle of Junior Year British Lit class.


billytea - Feb 27, 2003 7:57:42 am PST #2259 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I just have to say that I find all of this cricket very, well, informative. Wish I'd known all this ten years ago when I first read Life, the Universe, and Everything. Large chunks of that book made no sense to me whatsoever.

Just to make it even weirder: he originally wrote that story as a Doctor Who spec script called Doctor Who and the Krikketmen.


amych - Feb 27, 2003 8:00:08 am PST #2260 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

When you Americans say "dodge ball" do you specifically mean the type of game we saw in "The Pack"?

That's the one. And I think anyone who wants to play it again is nuts.


Sue - Feb 27, 2003 8:02:41 am PST #2261 of 9843
hip deep in pie

There was something on the news a few months ago, about how they were getting teachers to teach children those playground games because they are being forgotten. Kids don't just play like they used to, so games like four-square, skipping (the rhymes) and red-rover aren't being passed down to kids. It's also part of an attempt to make kids more active again.

I don't see a lot of kids playing like they used to. Mostly it seems to be supervised play-- when it happens at all, which we almost never had. (Though an adult was just a "MOM!" away.) the only kids I ever see playing unsupervised belong to someone in my co-op, and they really could use the supervision.


billytea - Feb 27, 2003 8:03:52 am PST #2262 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Kids don't just play like they used to, so games like four-square, skipping (the rhymes) and red-rover aren't being passed down to kids.

What's four-square? I'm wondering if it's similar to the handball (or hand tennis) that we used to play when I was at high school.


Jim - Feb 27, 2003 8:04:03 am PST #2263 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

But have you seen the UK equivalent, Bulldog? 30 kids each side of a "pitch". They run at each other and try and force the other side back. No rules


Hil R. - Feb 27, 2003 8:06:34 am PST #2264 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The only times I can remember choosing teams for games was in school, when teachers chose the captains and then make the captains choose the teams. (I hated being a captain, because if I didn't choose the best players first, I'd get hassled, but if I didn't choose my friends first, they'd be mad at me, so pretty much I had a choice between being hurt physically or mentally. I'd usually choose physically, since I was pretty well aware that the fourth-grade politics of who's friends with whom would last a whole lot longer than some bruises.)

When we were playing something like street hockey, we all had roller blades, but there was only one kid who had pucks and sticks, so he'd decide who was on which team. (And he'd usually decide pretty fairly, since after the first few times, it's no fun to play against a bunch of kids you can easily beat.)

I've heard a lot of stuff about how damaging playing tag is, but that's actually one of the most adaptable games ever. We usually had two trees designated as bases, and the rule was that you could stay on base for 30 seconds at a time. When I started having knee problems, the rule was that I could stay on base for two minutes. My best friend's youngest sister, born when we were in third grade, has Down Syndrome. For awhile when she was a toddler, when she wanted to be involved in whatever fun was going on but couldn't walk yet to actually play, we'd sit her in the middle of the yard and designate her as a base, so people would always be stopping to sit down and hold her hand a play with her for a minute or so. TV/Book tag was also great for those of us who were better at thinking fast than running fast, but the kids who liked running could still do a lot of it, if that was how they wanted to play.


Hil R. - Feb 27, 2003 8:09:00 am PST #2265 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

What's four-square? I'm wondering if it's similar to the handball (or hand tennis) that we used to play when I was at high school.

You draw a big square, divided into four smaller squares, on the blacktop. One kid stands in each square, and you bounce a playground ball between each other, and there are some rules that I can't remember about where it's allowed to bounce and the order in which people have to hit it.