Comments on: Mumbletly-Peg http://tomchappell.com/blog/2006/08/mumbletly-peg.html Yet Another Media Spotlight Sat, 19 May 2012 04:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Chris Gibson http://tomchappell.com/blog/2006/08/mumbletly-peg.html#comment-39 Chris Gibson Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:17:58 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/?p=28#comment-39 I played a bit of mumbly-peg in the Boy Scouts when we went to camp on Catalina Island every summer. I remember it differently, though, from the pictures presented. It may be just bad memory...it was a LONG time ago, though I do still remember the ferry trip with fondness (as someone immune to seasickness, I would clean up on our quarter-a-hand blackjack and knock poker games). I was a bit concerned with some of the motions presented on the web site. Starting around the tenth motion, I saw that (a) the tip of my knife would likely draw blood just from the starting position, and (b) using the suggested "downward motion" would seem to result in sending several inches of dirt-clotted steel into your brain, your thumb, your knee, or other some such body part. As I said, I remember the game somewhat differently, and don't recall placing the tip of my quite sharp knife on my scalp (though perhaps on my fingertips). ..Chris.. I played a bit of mumbly-peg in the Boy Scouts when we went to camp on Catalina Island every summer. I remember it differently, though, from the pictures presented. It may be just bad memory…it was a LONG time ago, though I do still remember the ferry trip with fondness (as someone immune to seasickness, I would clean up on our quarter-a-hand blackjack and knock poker games).

I was a bit concerned with some of the motions presented on the web site. Starting around the tenth motion, I saw that (a) the tip of my knife would likely draw blood just from the starting position, and (b) using the suggested “downward motion” would seem to result in sending several inches of dirt-clotted steel into your brain, your thumb, your knee, or other some such body part. As I said, I remember the game somewhat differently, and don’t recall placing the tip of my quite sharp knife on my scalp (though perhaps on my fingertips).

..Chris..

]]> By: John Blackburn http://tomchappell.com/blog/2006/08/mumbletly-peg.html#comment-38 John Blackburn Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:48:40 +0000 http://tomchappell.com/blog/?p=28#comment-38 Nicely presented, and with pictures! I had heard of mumblety-peg, but never knew what it was, always just thinking it was one of those old-timey games that went out with the ice delivery man. Nicely presented, and with pictures! I had heard of mumblety-peg, but never knew what it was, always just thinking it was one of those old-timey games that went out with the ice delivery man.

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