Sky Hook (1971)

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Dec 19, 2003, at 6:45 AM, James A. Landau wrote:

>  Another possibliity is that it started out as a practical joke of the
> snipe-hunt variety, as in the following account (dated September 1967
> but the gag
> could be decades older):...

it was a staple of my time in summer camp (1948-53 at the first, in
wernersville, pa.) that new boys were sent out  to find a snipe and/or
fetch a sky hook.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)