The English are odd folk....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwile_flonking

That is one 1:1 scale wargame I'm fairly intimidated by.

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:39:41 -0400, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:

Some of us our odd, I've never heard of this.

The rest of us are just strange.

I'm proud of my half-strange heritage!

Oh, wait, the other half's German...

Bloody world war every waking moment, it is.

Cor, suppose I'd some French...

Sort of puts Quidditch in a new light.

Doug

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Arr, the olde Suffolk sport of Dwile Flonking, this be from moi part
of the world.....  :-)

In a similar vein, see also: "Drats" by Michael Bentine - my
google-fu is weak today and I couldn't find a free version of the
actual radio sketch, but here is a transcript (which is still funny if read in
suitably silly voices):
http://monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Drats.htm
If you find an audio version, it's interesting to note that EVERY voice on it
is Bentine himself....

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> 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