LL-L "Games" 2003.06.02 (01) [E]

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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2003.06.01 (06) [E]]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Games
>
> Does anyone know the game "Kippelkappel" (or
> "Kippel-Kappel") or a
> related game?  I tried to find out about it on the
> web, but there seems
> to be nothing, except the North German use of the
> word _Kippelkappel_ in
> the sense of "(political) tug of war."
>
> I really have to rummage in the farthest recesses of
> my mind to remember
> this game.  You use a short stick that is pointed at
> both ends.  You lay
> it across another stick (of any length) on the
> ground.  Underneath the
> raised shorter pointed end there must be a slight
> dip in the ground.
> With another stick you hit the raised shorter end of
> the pointed stick
> and thus cause the stick to be flung.  The farther
> you cause it to be
> flung the better off you are in the game.
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I remember such a game when I grew up in Amsterdam (in
de Pijp). And a few times I saw that in the slums
there the older boys (who had left primary
school)played such kind of game, and they called it
[forgive me the word]: pinkelen.

vr. gr. Theo Homan

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