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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span>LL-L "Games"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="lDACoc"><br></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Mark,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
You wrote:
</span><blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite">
<div>Pigeons had
(for all I know still have) the same domestic status as dogs &
horses. Only unregenerate parvenus would stoop to eating the noble
bird. Don't you have chickens?</div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Oops, maybe we're just cannibals, but we eat them all: horses and
pigeons, and even dogs (the latter only during wartime, nickname of
inhabitants of Boom still is "d'honnefrètters"). Pigeon meat is
considered a delicacy, and used to be given only to ill people or
people recovering from a disease; nowadays, you can buy pigeon in most
supermarkets. At the same time, the bird is still held in high regard
though.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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Luc Hellinckx</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span class="lDACoc"><br>
Subject: </span>LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 19/04/2008, at 1:03 AM,<br>R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Subject: Games<br>
<br>I
understand that pigeon racing is or used to be very common in Belgium
and Britain as well. What about the Netherlands and other countries?</span></blockquote><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still popular in UK I'll bet, was especially popular in coal minig areas so with their drastc reduction I suspect this sport</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">is not so widely practised there. It is also still in vogue in Canada's Ontario, I have a friend there who bred prize racers</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
until recently. Never come across it in Australia.</div><br> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Regards</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tom Mc Rae</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Brisbane Australia</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Robert Burns</font></p>
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From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span></span><span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span class="lDACoc"><br>
Subject: </span></span><span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (06) [E]<br><br></span><div><div>On 19/04/2008, at 3:59 AM, <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span>t wrote:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Subject:<span> </span>LL-L "Games"<br>
<br>One
game of chance that used to be played around here for gambling purposes
until the middle of the 20th century was "Anker en Zon" (Crown and
Anchor in English). Illegal nowadays, but apparently some variations of
the game (chuck-a-luck in the US, hoo hey how in China, bau cua ca cop
in Vietnam) still survive.<br></span></blockquote><br></div></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Although illegal Crown and Anchor sets were still sold in some British toy stores,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Another simple gambling game in UK is Put & Take which seems to gave been adapted form the Jewish Dredel top</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">used
by children during Hanukah. Newsagents in Scotland, at least, sold cute
wee brass dredel-type tops but instead of Hebrew characters</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">they
had sides saying stuff like PUT ONE or TAKE TWO inscribed on them. So
small that if a copper came along they were easily hidden.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quite an old game too, recorded in an Edinburgh wotkers' folk song </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"The West Port's no sae dreary,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The meth drinkers keep it cheery.</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">They cope the Jake, (methylated spirits)</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
An' play Out an Take.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beside the Wells o' Weary."</div><div><br></div>And I emphatically deny ever having coped any Jake !<br> <p style="margin: 0px;">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Regards</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tom Mc Rae</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Brisbane Australia</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Robert Burns</font></p>
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