Farkling/farggling

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 9 04:28:43 UTC 2003


At 9:23 PM -0700 7/8/03, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:
>>Yes, but under the name (and rules) of rock-paper-scissors-match.  We
>>New Yorkers were real sophisticated, after all.  (We could also argue
>>about why e.g. match really does burn rock, etc.)
>
>Also from NY, but only as rock-paper-scissors.  Match?
>
Yes.  Match really does get crushed by rock, and cut by scissors,
while of course burning paper.  Still, "rock" was the most fun,
because you could smush those flimsy matches and scissors, and it
wasn't too awful to get covered by paper.

Larry



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