And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Yeah, some of our games were played that if you could catch the ball thrown at you, the asshole who threw it was out. Let some of the smaller guys eliminate the bully types--sometimes.
In the mid-late 70's it was called smear the queer, because, of course, 5th graders are uncouth. The best way to win was to target one player at a time, to make them run out of energy and no longer be able to dodge.
If you could catch it all the better when I played dodge ball.
ReplyDeleteYeah, some of our games were played that if you could catch the ball thrown at you, the asshole who threw it was out.
DeleteLet some of the smaller guys eliminate the bully types--sometimes.
We called it 'Murderball'. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteIt developed reflexes
ReplyDeleteIt was to fighting in settling disputes
ReplyDeleteIn the background, George W. Bush in his first post college job coaching.
ReplyDeleteWe used volley balls down in Hayward.
ReplyDeleteIf you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball
ReplyDeleteWe called it...something else I can't repeat here.
ReplyDeleteGod I loved dodgeball. And a version of free style rugby ( I guess) called , “Smear-the-Queer”.
ReplyDeleteIn the mid-late 70's it was called smear the queer, because, of course, 5th graders are uncouth. The best way to win was to target one player at a time, to make them run out of energy and no longer be able to dodge.
ReplyDeleteThe little girl seems to really be enjoying the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteBetter if you were a ‘shirt’ and not a ‘skins’.
ReplyDeleteYorktown Elementary, Bowie, MD, 1968-70…smear the queer. Had no idea what that may have meant
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