THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 2)

[Johnny39]

Jogon wrote: Something for a rainy playtime indoors at school... "Stumped", a great little game - played it for hours when I was a kid.

[Johnny39]

Dogs chasing motorbikes. I don't know if it's because dogs have got slower and M/C's faster or just dogs have become cannier. As we used to say, " Even if it caught it, it couldn't ride it".

[majorhoundii]

Johnny39 wrote: Jogon wrote: Something for a rainy playtime indoors at school... "Stumped", a great little game - played it for hours when I was a kid. Is that the game I call "owzat!?" You have two octagonal pieces, one player bats, the other player bowls. The batsman rolls his piece which gives his score until it rolls on to "owzat!" then the bowler rolls his piece and it says how the batsman was out - or on one face "not out".We made a computer simulation of this game for the long lamented Commodore 64 machine.

[Johnny39]

majorhoundii wrote: Johnny39 wrote: Jogon wrote: Something for a rainy playtime indoors at school... "Stumped", a great little game - played it for hours when I was a kid. Is that the game I call "owzat!?" You have two octagonal pieces, one player bats, the other player bowls. The batsman rolls his piece which gives his score until it rolls on to "owzat!" then the bowler rolls his piece and it says how the batsman was out - or on one face "not out".We made a computer simulation of this game for the long lamented Commodore 64 machine. That's the one Major, I think I renamed it - incorrectly. If you look at Jogon's posting he gives a picture of it.

[Leodian]

You don't see TV programmes being interrupted anymore to go for a news flash. That there was to be such an announcement always gave a sense of great concern as to what was to be announced.

[Bruno]

Jogon wrote: Something for a rainy playtime indoors at school... Similar game was Pokkit Socca. It had the same hex rollers but you used them to move a "ball" around a tiny fold-out plastic football pitch. Still got one somewhere.http://www.fsf.org.uk/media/uploaded/play-the-game.pdf

[Leodian]

Bruno wrote: Jogon wrote: Something for a rainy playtime indoors at school... Similar game was Pokkit Socca. It had the same hex rollers but you used them to move a "ball" around a tiny fold-out plastic football pitch. Still got one somewhere.http://www.fsf.org.uk/media/uploaded/play-the-game.pdf That's an interesting link Bruno. As a child I recall playing pocket cricket and know of pocket football (soccer) but I don't recall ever hearing of pocket billiards mentioned in the information brought up through the link in which it states "Pokkit Socca. Not to be confused with pocket billiards".

[jim]

Pocket billiards is a favourite game of many young men (so I am told). Despite much research I have been unable to discover a set of regulations or objects for the game, but an acquaintance has told me that the player must provide his own pitch and spheroids.I was never any good at games myself.

[Si]

jim wrote: Pocket billiards is a favourite game of many young men (so I am told). Despite much research I have been unable to discover a set of regulations or objects for the game, but an acquaintance has told me that the player must provide his own pitch and spheroids.I was never any good at games myself. It is noticeable that this game has recently become much more popular with the young since the advent of "tracky bottoms" as a fashion statement.

[Steve Jones]

Not forgetting of course that displaying the equipment used to play pocket billiards is frowned upon and can lead to a court appearance <LOL>