Scott Meyer
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How to See Something in a New Light
🕑 Added 2022-09-05 08:01:01 +0000 UTCI firmly believe that the amusingly suggestive name is a big part of why the game Cornhole caught on to begin with.
When I was in, oh, I guess it’d be the 5th grade, my school had a large piece of playground equipment made of big logs that had various platforms, slides, ladders and nets. Many of you can picture it, I’m sure. Anyway, one of the guys devised a game, a form of tag, where the player who was “it” would lurk beneath the platforms and would have to reach up through the gaps to touch the other players' feet. The idea was that the playground equipment was a boat, and the person who was “it” was a predator in the water. If he touched the other players, or if they touched the ground, here called “the water,” they were “it.”
Because he invented the game, he got to name it. The name he chose was “Ass-igator.”
Part of the game was that the players who weren’t the “Assi-gator” had to shout “ASSIGATOR” at the top of their lungs as often as possible. In retrospect, I think we got more enjoyment out of shouting Ass-igator than we did out of the game-play.
This is how wholesome small-town kids amuse themselves.
Comments
Zach Zintel
"Sure, now" 😂
Scott Meyer
Of course, I miss Toss-across, the thinking man's cornhole, or, the physical man's tic-tac-toe.
Joel Ronningen
There's quite a few folks that just call it bean bag toss, bag toss or just bags. I'm not sure if that takes some of the fun out of it for you, or is actually interesting. "Cornhole, also known as bean bag toss, is basically a game where two wooden boards with a hole are positioned out 25-30 feet apart. There are two people standing at each board and they take turns tossing the bean bags back and forth.May 25, 2022"
