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in reply to a message by Joiya
I think the sound/word itself is ugly as sin, and always associate the word with the burrs that were all over the playground in elementary school and stuck all over your shoelaces and socks and pant legs. I just don't see the attraction.
I think, therefore I judge.
I think, therefore I judge.
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That sounds like an awful play-yard. The only thing we had to bother us in the play-yard were crabapples.
Burrs are not common around here.
Burrs are not common around here.
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Our elementary school yard was mud in the late winter/early spring, but otherwise nice;snow in winter, with a path that we slid on enough to turn to solid ice, and in fall and summer, green and pretty, with trees.
We didn't have play-upon equipment, as such.We threw balls up against the side of the school in games that went on as long as recess did, and played marbles.
We didn't have play-upon equipment, as such.We threw balls up against the side of the school in games that went on as long as recess did, and played marbles.
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We had a grassy hill. At the top of the hill was someone's house, and the main rule was not to go near the house where someone else lived. Otherwise, we basically chased each other or rolled down the hill. Sometimes, someone snuck in jacks or marbles and a piece of cardboard to play on.
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We could play marbles all we wanted, we kept them in cloth bags, made by our mothers. The over-riding rule was that NO SIGN of a marble should be seen or heard of during class, or the teacher would take them(temporarily.)
There was a whole culture around marbles.There was one game that both boys and girls played, and another that only boys played. Goodness knows why, it was no more difficult or macho!It wasn't that the boys wouldn't let the girls play, but that we never played it.
There was a whole culture around marbles.There was one game that both boys and girls played, and another that only boys played. Goodness knows why, it was no more difficult or macho!It wasn't that the boys wouldn't let the girls play, but that we never played it.
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