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Ever Play Mumbledy Peg?

Whoa, blast from the past! Haven't played since summer camp back in 77 or 78. I always wondered if it was a real game or just made up at our camp...guess it's legit. I had a small Old Timer folder that we used. Although, I don't remember pulling anything out of the ground with my teeth...must have won all the time. :D

Good stuff.
FM.
 
Hello Torz Johnson ,David here not trying to change subject but i noticed your picture of the album cover AX VICTUM by the band BE BOP DELUX are you by chance an old fan? I am have all but one of their old albums . Great art rock band . Bill Nelson is one fantastic guitarest!.
 
Hi David, yes I'm a huge fan of BBD and much of Bill Nelson's solo stuff as well. That album cover for Axe Victim is a real eye-catcher but my personal favorite is "Futurama". Nice to hear from another person with good taste in music!
 
Originally posted by samhell
I never played Mumbledy Peg but when I was in 2nd to 7th grade we would play stretch(sometimes called splits) during recess.
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James, I haven't thought of it for years, but we used to play Stretch in Brooklyn also. If I remember correct you played with two players and the idea was to throw your knife in the ground just passed the other guys foot and he had to move his foot to that mark and then pick up the knife and throw it a little bit further and you'd have to stretch to that mark. When you you couldn't stretch any further or your throw didn't stick in the ground you lost. Does that sound about right?

I'm wondering if they played these games anywhere besides New York City; Stickball, Punchball, Stoopball, Skully and Johnny On the Pony, (that game cause more injuries than all the gang fights in Brooklyn).
 
That's Stretch Phil. Each guy would stand in a circle scratched into the ground and the knife would have to stick in that circle. Kinda like limbo meets twister with knives.:D If we could find a place where we would'nt get arrested, playing some of the old games at Blade would be fun.:)
 
Tores,David again thanks its to bad that the band is no longer togrther.I have FUTURAMA,great album. MODERN MUSIC has to be my favorite. Ive also got a lot of Bills solo works & RED NOISE, WOW this brings back some good memories!. thanks again David
 
Last time I played M'peg and Stretch was '59 or '60. I'm 53 now, so that's over 40 years ago!:eek: All the guys carried knives in grade school and we played during recess and lunch hour, and no one thought anything about it. We never considered knives as weapons. If you had a beef with a guy you met at recess and duked it out. Got my butt busted more than once for that. (Sigh) Times have sure changed.
 
So far nobody has actually explained what mumbledy peg is. How is it played?

Asha'man
 
I am 20, when i was yunger i used to play outside constantly, i built forts traps (rope was the greatest thing in the world to me) played tag games, road around on bikes without helmets too. I even ran around with a fanny pack fully of knives.

But at any age i would have considered this game phenomenally BAD to play, but i certainly would have watched.
 
Lizard, you are missing out. I am about the same age. Look me up and we can play sometime. If the blades and feet things bother you that much we can play some stretch. I also learned that with Ben.
 
Haven't played any of them since high school...I'm 39. We played mumbley peg, stretch, and chicken in one form or another. We also broke a lot of Imperial Jackmasters throwing them at trees.

Paul
 
It may not be Mumbley Peg but I am guilty of playing games like that as a kid. I was 12, my brother 10. We were throwing javelins made from sharpened broomsticks to see who could stick one nearest to each other's foot. The point went in between the web of my younger brother's big and second toe. My mom who didn't yell much after the initial shock (ER nurse) patched him up and sent him to the hospital for stiches. Last time we played that game. I'm 32 so that was 20 years ago.

Andrew Limsk
 
I hesitate to even go into details about the games we played in the country when I was kid. It's frankly a miracle that I'm still alive and I'd hate to give new ideas to some unwitting teen... ;)

It's also amazing how a person can use papertowels, neosporin and duct tape for field expedient bandaging when you don't want your parents to know you've been hurt, or rather, don't want to explain how you got hurt. Of course, that strategy only works when you body is still young enough to heal up servicably within a few days.
 
I played stretch 30 years ago. Also got stitches in an incident similar to what redvenom described.

Kevin
 
I recognize some of those, but I grew up in Jersey in the 80s. is stoopball the same game as suicide? you take a tennis ball, bounce it off a wall, and people behind you try to catch it. if they drop it, someone else picks it up and throws it at them before they tag the wall. if they are hit, then he must stand on the wall, while the person who hit them throws the ball at the person on the wall. This description is awful, but it's hard without pictures:D
 
No Dijos, no human targets in stoopball. :(
Stoopball was played by trying to hit the points of a set of cement front steps. If it was caught by the other team it was an out, each bounce was a base. So if you could hit a point real good it would bounce over the other players head, and he'd have to go chase it.

And No Tennis Balls, a Pink Spaldeen was the ball of choice for everything, from box-ball to stickball to punchball to stoopball.
 
Damn the things you forget about:D Well I'm 26 and I say about 16 yrs since I last played it.We called it Stretch also around here!!
Hey, I wonder if I can talk the "wife" into playing a quick game.:rolleyes: ...yeah right!!
Todd
 
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