From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@i...>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:12:38 +0000
Subject: RE: gzg-d Digest V2012 #93 - Re: The English are odd folk....
textfilter: chose text/plain from a multipart/alternative I love this list. After watching this list for....mmmm.... something like 15 years now, I think we manage to find folks who've done just about everything. (Well, maybe not *everything*, but certainly a lot of odd things.) There are few topics that someone can't speak to with some authority anyway.... --Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:56:51 +0100 From: atcliffe@ntlworld.com To: gzg@firedrake.org Subject: Re: The English are odd folk.... textfilter: chose text/plain from a multipart/alternative > On 30/08/2012 11:39, Tom B wrote: It's one that I'm rather /surprised /by, because the version or similar game that I know (and have played) is Dwile /Flunking/ (or that's how it was pronounced; spelling is debatable because this is England we're talking about, and rural England at that... ;-) ), and it's quite different -- more drinking, for a start, and we sure as blazes didn't waste good beer by dunking the dwile in it! The game had some similarities to the one described in the link, but differences too. The non-dwile team stood in a circle about 20 feet across (maybe more, maybe less; I can't remember what we used to measure it). Each member of the dwile team took his or her place at the centre of the circle, where there was a open keg of beer with a pint glass, and a bucket of water in which the dwile soaked. The flunker would raise the dwile from the bucket with the pole (which had no name that I was aware of) and would hurl it at a member of the other team. If it hit, an odd sort of race began; if not, the flunker tried again. On scoring a hit with the dwile, the flunker had to run to the outside of the circle where the person hit by the dwile was and do a lap of the circle; while s/he was doing that, the struck player had to get to the keg of beer, fill the glass and drink it, signifying completion in the time-honoured manner of turning the empty glass upside-down on his or her head. If the flunker completed the lap before the drinker finished the pint, they scored a point for their team; if the drinker was quicker, they didn't. Either way, the next member of the dwile team had their go. The winning team was the won which scored the most points after both teams had had a full "innings". For those interested (?) in the migration of the game and its subsequent (?) mutation, this version was played at Cranfield University in mid-Bedfordshire. Phil