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Homer Wells Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-18-06 12:24 PM
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13. When I was in Junior High back in the '60's
We had a game called "Free-for-all Rugby. It was similar to soccer, but the coaches tossed in as many as ten balls at once. Our PE class (maybe 50 boys), followed the basic rules of rugby, but the main goal was to kick as many goals as we could, and this often resulted in some pretty painful injuries (one kid even broke his arm). Not a lawsuit to be seen.
I would not be surprised to see Chess be our number one sports interest in schools in the future. That being said, I figure someone would bruise his/her hand on the clock and sue the shit out of somebody.\

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  After all, we don't want our children being harmed by FUN, DO WE??? Montauk6  Oct-18-06 12:08 PM   #0 
   so...  nickinSTL   Oct-18-06 12:11 PM   #1 
   No, NIck!  Montauk6   Oct-18-06 12:29 PM   #17 
   "unsupervised chasing games"  MrCoffee   Oct-18-06 12:12 PM   #2 
   Oh, No!! Not Stare!!  yankeeinlouisiana   Oct-18-06 12:17 PM   #8 
   "Let's have a sitting-quietly contest!"  dicksteele   Oct-18-06 12:24 PM   #12 
   Where I grew up on L.I., we played a game called "Pin War"...  Bonobo   Oct-18-06 12:12 PM   #3 
   Geez, talk about going overboard  MadHound   Oct-18-06 12:13 PM   #4 
   If they haven't already banned recess.  Kali   Oct-18-06 12:17 PM   #7 
   It would be so wonderfully ironic...  progdonkey   Oct-18-06 12:19 PM   #9 
   That's what pills are for  NoMoreMyths   Oct-18-06 12:19 PM   #10 
   I guess it's physically safer for the kids to play Grand Theft Auto.  Montauk6   Oct-18-06 12:31 PM   #21 
   IMHO it's wrong to blame school admin  Rosemary2205   Oct-18-06 12:46 PM   #26 
      Absolutely!  quantessd   Oct-18-06 01:27 PM   #34 
   They banned fun a long time ago.  Kali   Oct-18-06 12:14 PM   #5 
   When I was a kid I didn't have the arm strength to shimmy up a pole  petronius   Oct-18-06 12:29 PM   #18 
      Heh - I had/have the wimpy arms too...  Kali   Oct-18-06 01:08 PM   #29 
         Oh yeah, I definitely let down the president back then  petronius   Oct-18-06 01:24 PM   #33 
   I'm guessing this principal didn't take this action in a vacuum  riderinthestorm   Oct-18-06 12:16 PM   #6 
   yeah, it usually is just one parent who ruins it for everyone else...  progdonkey   Oct-18-06 12:25 PM   #15 
   I dunno - maybe it's better that kids don't play  tularetom   Oct-18-06 12:23 PM   #11 
   other than the name, what's wrong with smear the queer?  MrCoffee   Oct-18-06 12:25 PM   #16 
   I played Blind Man's Bluff  Montauk6   Oct-18-06 12:37 PM   #23 
   Actually it was a lot of fun  tularetom   Oct-18-06 12:57 PM   #28 
   Loved that game - didn't even know what "Queer" meant.  Kali   Oct-18-06 01:09 PM   #30 
   We only played that during the wintertime!  jmowreader   Oct-18-06 04:13 PM   #37 
   When I was in Junior High back in the '60's  StephenB48   Oct-18-06 12:24 PM   #13 
   On rainy days we had an indoor game called "caveman soccer"  MindPilot   Oct-18-06 12:30 PM   #19 
   a basketball and one boxing glove? sounds AWESOME!  MrCoffee   Oct-18-06 12:32 PM   #22 
   LOL! Caveman soccer and free-for-all-rugby just cracked me up!  riderinthestorm   Oct-18-06 12:37 PM   #24 
   It's the baseball bat...  MindPilot   Oct-18-06 04:22 PM   #38 
   Hahahahha that sound ... inventive  Kali   Oct-18-06 01:11 PM   #31 
   Playing chess would be WRONG!  Divernan   Oct-18-06 12:30 PM   #20 
   A Country of Fear! nt  OwnedByFerrets   Oct-18-06 12:25 PM   #14 
   when my daughter was in 4th grade she had long pigtails, that the  madmom   Oct-18-06 12:40 PM   #25 
   Ah, the natural balance  NoMoreMyths   Oct-18-06 12:52 PM   #27 
   Tag should be banned....  jakefrep   Oct-18-06 01:15 PM   #32 
   Hey my town!!!!!  Marrah_G   Oct-18-06 03:27 PM   #35 
   Old news  proud2Blib   Oct-18-06 03:30 PM   #36 
 

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