From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #191 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Monday, June 11 2001 Volume 03 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: For Brian; SPUD [Tom926@aol.com] [RS] Spud [Pfleary@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 06:19:04 EDT From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: For Brian; SPUD Oh my God, as soon as I read it I could remember playing it on the street as clear as a bell. I had forgotten all about that one! I was always getting beaned. And I "threw like a girl." Sigh. Next lifetime I want to come back as an NFL quarterback. Thank you for explaining it. Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:02:05 EDT From: Pfleary@aol.com Subject: [RS] Spud Wow Brian! Excellent description of a very complex and thrilling childhood game, all the way down to the spanking machine, which was my favorite part ;-). We had one more component where I played growing up on the mean streets of Burlington, VT. The person assigning numbers to players would add two more numbers to the total number of players and then not assign two numbers. These were the "ghost" numbers. When a "ghost" number was called, everyone scattered and no one got the ball. Then when we realized what had happened, people would call out "ghost number" and we would regroup and start over. Seems like a fairly useless thing to do, but whoa to the child who called a ghost number after it had been revealed. Life was tough back then... Peter ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #191 ***********************************