Re: [gdh] Splat a Rat!

[raibert@primenet.com (Robert H. Duncan)]

Poster: raibert@primenet.com (Robert H. Duncan)


My Brother, You are truly a twisted person.....I like that in my friends,
makes my enemies very, very nervous........;-)

Raibert


At 10:11 AM 2/3/99 -0500, magnusm@ncsu.edu wrote:
>A friend in England and I were talking about the similarity between
>playing fair games and getting in new SCA fighters to practice on:
>
>> >We got this game at the fairs called Whack A
>> >Mole. You take this club and try to beat any of nine moles on the head
>> >who emerge from their holes on top of a table. Some folks have great
>> >fun with it. Some folks never seem to grow out of it. Meaning SCA.
>> 
>> Sounds a bit like our Splat a Rat !
>
>(I suppose *that* depends on *how* one sees one's opponent.)
> 
>> >Ever seen someone play the Mongoose Game on someone?
>> >At the state fair, which is a mere two miles from here, the farmers
>> >have these games they play on the spectators.
>> 
>> >One of them is the Mongoose Game. Most folks don't know what a mongoose
>> >is, but they have heard of one. So what the farmers do is construct a
>> >long box with a wire screen at one end. There is some straw in it, and 
>> >they make you get down kinda close to look in the end. It's dark inside
>> >and you look real hard. About the time you get close to the box which
>> >they are beating on to get the mongoose excited, they let loose the
>> >spring hinge on the top end and the door flies open catapulting
>> >the fake mongoose right at you!. Scares the s**t out of the spectators.
>> >The mongoose is hooked to the door and flies loose. Great fun to
>> >watch them scream. Might work well at a demo. Mostly fake fur and a 
>> >long tail with some stuffing.  Usually see lots of cows, some of them
>> >are sitting on stuffed scarecrows. :)
>> 
>> No I must try it sounds fun ! I think we'd have to change it to ferret or
>> something no Mongooses here !
>
>A little something to consider on a slow day.
>
>Magnus
>
>
>

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