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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Games"

Beste Mark,

You wrote:

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?

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.

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (01) [E]

On 19/04/2008, at 1:03 AM,
R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com> wrote:

Subject: Games

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?


Still popular in UK I'll bet, was especially popular in coal minig areas so
with their drastc reduction I suspect this sport
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
until recently. Never come across it in Australia.

Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia

Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us

Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us

Robert Burns

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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2008.04.18 (06) [E]

On 19/04/2008, at 3:59 AM, Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>t wrote:

Subject: LL-L "Games"

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.


Although illegal Crown and Anchor sets were still sold in some British toy
stores,
Another simple gambling game in UK is Put & Take which seems to gave been
adapted form the Jewish Dredel top
used by children during Hanukah. Newsagents in Scotland, at least, sold cute
wee brass dredel-type tops but instead of Hebrew characters
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.
Quite an old game too, recorded in an Edinburgh wotkers' folk song
"The West Port's no sae dreary,
The meth drinkers keep it cheery.
They cope the Jake, (methylated spirits)An' play Out an Take.
Beside the Wells o' Weary."

And I emphatically deny ever having coped any Jake !

Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia

Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us

Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us

Robert Burns
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