[Fictionary] STONE rules Results

[J-J Cote]

On 12/18/2011 3:09 PM, Nicolas Ward wrote:
> I was imagining that this would be a game you could play now with a 
> ball, but a stone would have been used due to the lack of plastic and 
> low availability of rubber for balls. I also wanted something I could 
> imagine my sister an I playing in our old backyard (with trees we 
> often used as kickball bases) with friends. As for cracker, I was 
> going for the whip imagery, and forgot about the pejorative term. I'm 
> aware of it, but it's not in my dialect. --Nick

Dude, you don't need polymers, you just stuff an old sock with rags and 
acorns or something.

I may have mentioned it before, but during my time as a coworker of 
Elliott years ago, another guy in the office jokingly referred to 
Elliott as a cracker, due to his Mississippi origins.  (This may have 
been the first time I ever heard the term.)  In a dramatic huff, Elliott 
drew a sketch of the southern US, and sectioned it off into regions 
containing crackers, rednecks, good ol' boys and whatnot, thus 
illustrating that he was in fact something else (though I don't recall 
what).

Jean-Joseph