Conkers it is then!
There's not as much to Domino web-caching as I thought then? Oh well, I'll leave you with a couple of links and forget about it. John Marshall read an article on LDD and added some caching to his own site. Taking a quick look at what does and doesn't cache on this site it looks like I need to do the same. For example, the About Page hasn't changed for ages but it never gets cached. Same with most articles by the looks of things. It's on my list of things to do and I will talk about it more at the time.
So more of you are interested in conkers than anything else then?
Conkers is a British game invented in the 19th century and played mainly by school-children around this time of year. Look around and you see kids throwing sticks in to Horse Chestnut trees hoping to knock some of the conkers to the floor. Once you've got one you prepare it by your preferred method - pickling and slow-roasting being the favourites - and then tie it to the end of an old shoelace. You and your opponent then take it in turns to swing at each others conkers until one is destroyed. The rules are a little more complicated but it's great fun. Even for adults.
I have special memories of playground conkers thanks to my dad who made sure I was always well stocked. He used to drive a lorry with one of these cranes on the back. Whenever he saw a conker tree with nobody around he would use the crane to give it a good shake and bring home hundreds and hundreds that other kids had no hope of getting to.
It's been fun getting to play it again recently. Well on my way to having a "three-er". It's just sickens me to see the way our world is changing and how stupid the rules are becoming.
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I saw my first American conker after moving here from Blighty 9 months ago. They call 'em Buckeyes here, and Ohio (where I work) is called the Buckeye state because of the abundance of them. The term is generic though, and applies to the nuts of several similar trees.
My memory of conkers as a kid is the complete exaggeration of the success of some kids' conkers. "Mine's a six-hundred-and-ninety-eighter". Yah right.
LOL. Yeah, I remember that too. There seems to be confusion over the rules. If your one-er beats a ten-er does it become a two-er or a twelve-er? The latter I would have though...
Jim, Where in Ohio did you move to? We moved here (East Liberty, NW of Columbus) from Michigan 3 years ago. My dad admonished me not to 'become a buckeye', presumably meaning an Ohio State football fan.
So far as I've been able to tell, the Buckeyes that people string on necklaces and sell as baubles during the football season are exclusively (or at least traditionally) horse chestnuts. Anybody selling you knock-off merchandise should be roughed up a bit to discourage counterfeiting. ;-)
So, what happens when the strings at first tangle and one player says 'strings' but then the conkers untangle themselves? Null and void extra shot?
The 'Stamps' rule seems like it could be pretty conentious too... Are you allowed to call stamps as the conker is in free fall or must it be called only after the conker is on the ground? Similarily, can you call 'no stamps' as soon as you feel your grip fail your string?
This could become a very serious game!
Jerry. You've done your research I see. Had forgotten all about those rules. As with all playground games I imagine it's the toughest kid who has the say.
Moved from Teesside (worked in Leeds), now live in Northern Kentucky, work just north of Cincinnati (the Prez was in town yesterday, causing gridlock). My lack of interest (and understanding) of Baseball, "American" Football and Basketball mean I'm unlikely to become a Buckeye or any other type of tree-fruit. I have heard that the Cincinnati Bengals football team nicknames the "Bungles", which I suppose means they're not very good, or that they all dress up like childrens TV characters from Rainbow ('scuse British references). Perhaps they're all Furries.
Conkers can get pretty violent. It wasn't unknown for hands to be targeted deliberately in order for you to drop yours to such certain doom as the aforementioned stampage. The bullies always won at school, but it's OK cos most of the bullies I went to school with are now in jail or in Sales (and maybe a couple of CEOs).
I remember having several on one string for some reason. And I remember finding the biggest conker I'd ever seen and watching it get smashed to pieces on its first outing...
I need to be havin' me some kids so I can play conkers again. It is a very serious game.
Jim, you don't need kids... just need to hook up with Jake or myself. There's kids enough for a game or three.
The Bungles are the loosingest team in the National Football League... or least nearly so.
Baseball is essentially dolled up Cricket with the typical American zeal for embellishment of an original beyond recognition (like Red Dwarf being rendered as Farscape). You throw a ball at a member of the other team who has a bat, and they try their best to bean you with it on the return. They run a diamond instead of back and forth, and the game lasts hours instead of days.
As far as native tree fruit, you're far enough south to go for a hike in some of the parks, and maybe along the banks of a river here and there find the paw-paw, otherwise known as the Ohio Bannana. It's a green fruit the size of your fist or larger with a custard consistency inside that tastes like a tropical fruit drink. We're going to try to establish some on our land up here. We may be too high and too far north, however.
Jake, I had just read the link you provided on the rules. I've always been keen on simple games played with whatever is at hand... having grown up in the woods, there was always a good supply of sticks and acorns... making for many painful games of 'stick ball - Survivor style'. :-)
Red Dwarf became Farscape?? Oh man. But then again, if the alternative is the American version of Coupling (NBC I think), where they took the scripts as-is and just threw in some new American actors and a different set, I'd rather have beyond-recognition embellishment. I could stop being tight and fork out for BBC America on cable, but then I'd end up with endless Ground Force or Changing Rooms repeats (literally 4 times a day each). Why they don't show more BBC programs on there is beyond me. They've already paid for 'em, what's the problem? Rant over. Thanks for listening.
My wife and I have done a lot of hiking in Kentucky and Ohio, but I've never seen the Ohio Banana. Probably too cold for that now. Maybe next year when we go out we won't bother packing a lunch, and just eat paw-paw instead :)
Ref conkers, you might like to know that www.worldconkerchampionships.com is now up and running!