Mumblety-peg

[artsandletters]

Do kids play mumblety-peg anymore? Maybe there's a video version but I don't know how you'd be able to chew the peg out of the screen.

Bobby 'Buckteeth' Bunker was the champ in my neighborhood. His overbite was so bad he could eat the outside of a sandwich first. Helped getting the peg out of the ground, that's for sure.

Me? I just ate a lot of dirt.

 

[phillybillyreprise]

Are kids allowed to play with pocket knives anymore?

 

[psuro]

Are kids allowed to play with pocket knives anymore?

I think there's an app for that.

 

[artsandletters]

Are kids allowed to play with pocket knives anymore?

No, strictly hand guns.

I don't know. My dad had a half a dozen pockets knives for everything from trimming his nails to sharpening a pencil. The old man up the street, Mr. Fred, whittled whistles with his pen knife. I thought they were the coolest things. Things were different.

 

[fairgambit]

Do kids play mumblety-peg anymore? Maybe there's a video version but I don't know how you'd be able to chew the peg out of the screen.

Bobby 'Buckteeth' Bunker was the champ in my neighborhood. His overbite was so bad he could eat the outside of a sandwich first. Helped getting the peg out of the ground, that's for sure.

Me? I just ate a lot of dirt.

Kids don't play much outside anymore and when they do it's usually on an electronic device. In my youth I played Capture The Flag for hours, running all over the neighborhood. Today kids attack castles in video games.

 

[royboy]

Some activities (way) back in the days....
rode bikes everywhere, pickup baseball, shot marbles, and played with a magnifying glass (fun for frying ants); and yeah, played some version of mumblety-peg we called "stretch"

 

[manatree]

Never played it growing up, mainly because if our parents saw us throwing our knives into the ground we'd get whupped and lose the knives. I, and many kids I grew up with, carried pocket knives to school every day. K-12. I prefered, (and still do) a basic Swiss Army or an Opinel. Even today I almost always have one in my pocket.

 

[artsandletters]

Never played it growing up, mainly because if our parents saw us throwing our knives into the ground we'd get whupped and lose the knives. I, and many kids I grew up with, carried pocket knives to school every day. K-12. I prefered, (and still do) a basic Swiss Army or an Opinel. Even today I almost always have one in my pocket.

Just curious as to context, what year did you graduate high school?

 

[papa_ed]

Gibbs rule #9, never go anywhere without a knife.

 

[manatree]

Just curious as to context, what year did you graduate high school?

1990.

 

[artsandletters]

1990.

Yeah. Different times, maybe. I was a boy in the 50s. We were told and taught to be careful but it was no big deal and my parents were strict, really strict. We played mumblety-peg in my front yard.

 

[manatree]

Yeah. Different times, maybe. I was a boy in the 50s. We were told and taught to be careful but it was no big deal and my parents were strict, really strict. We played mumblety-peg in my front yard.

It was also in an area where all the schools were closed for the first and second day of buck season, and it was not unusual for some kids to pack their gear and guns in the trunk of their car so they could go hunting after school, even in small game season. Of course they had to walk uphill both ways between the parking lot and the school.

 

[cment]

Still carry a pocket knife with me at all times unless on a plane. Have about 75 or so and sort of collect them. Old Brokers, Hen & Roosters, etc. It is always my goto gift for males


I graduated HS in 1993 and always had a pocket knife on my since I was seven and often had my .270 or 12ga in my truck in the school parking lot. I was not the exception in that regard.


Just got my 9yo girl a Swiss Army knife for her birthday. Her first pocket knife!

 

[MICH.Nit Fan]

Always sharpened my pencil with a pocket knife while at my desk in class, from jr high through college. We had our guns in racks in our trucks in HS, and often times one of our teachers would hunt with us after school. Clarion Area High School, PA. Class of 1981.

 

[papa_ed]

I was in school in the 50's and 60's, we only had the first day off, but it wasn't uncommon in our school for most of the male teachers to take off the entire first week of buck season, and most of the boys and some girls, 12 and older took at least the second day. Lots of retired/substitute teachers those weeks.

 

[MICH.Nit Fan]

I was in school in the 50's and 60's, we only had the first day off, but it wasn't uncommon in our school for most of the male teachers to take off the entire first week of buck season, and most of the boys and some girls, 12 and older took at least the second day. Lots of retired/substitute teachers those weeks.

We really had it good in Clarion. First two days of Buck Season, and the first day of Doe off. Life as it should be!

 

[psute]

Wore my 4" buck in its case on my belt every day, got a lot of use out of it in many of the same ways described above. GVHS '74...

 

[Lion78]

Played it quite often. Only time I got in trouble was when I played it with my father's Hitler youth knife it got while in Germany during WWII.

 

[CF LION]

In my neck of the woods in western PA it was "mumblepeg".

We also played a lot the politically incorrectly named game "Smear the Queer". If the ball came near you and you didn't pick it up, you got it worse. At least if you had the ball and started running with it you had a chance of out-running everyone.

 

[kgilbert78]

Gibbs rule #9, never go anywhere without a knife.

I have had folks get into minor trouble for following that rule. One was a Scout leader--at the Liberty Bell. The other was my BIL at a hockey game. He's a farmer. In both cases, however, they did not lose their knives--just had to take them back to the car.

I also remember that it was almost a rule, when I was a Scout, to carry your pocket knife everywhere--because you never knew when you might need it.

 

[papa_ed]

I have had folks get into minor trouble for following that rule. One was a Scout leader--at the Liberty Bell. The other was my BIL at a hockey game. He's a farmer. In both cases, however, they did not lose their knives--just had to take them back to the car.

I also remember that it was almost a rule, when I was a Scout, to carry your pocket knife everywhere--because you never knew when you might need it.

I still carry mine everywhere I go, however if I know I'm going to have to walk through a metal detector, I leave it in my vehicle.

 

[kgilbert78]

I still carry mine everywhere I go, however if I know I'm going to have to walk through a metal detector, I leave it in my vehicle.

I have one around somewhere, but being as I am very absent-minded at times, it stays in a drawer so I don't have it taken from me at an event.

 

[androcles]

...got my first pocket knife at the age of 6... it fit in the side pocket of my new "high tops"...
...every kid had one...
... favorite game was "baseball"
- played on wooden bench or top rail of a low fence or just an old 2x4...
...second best was War ... played on any available piece of bare ground... I still have a scar on the top of my left foot caused by an errant throw by my buddy that pierced the top of my "tennies"... didn't notice the cut 'til I got home and realized the mushy feeling in my sock was the result of blood leaking from the cut!...

 

[psuro]

I keep a knife in my back. At all times.

 

[cment]

I keep a knife in my back. At all times.

It leaves just a sliver of room for the other knife to follow; good defensive posture

 

[phillybillyreprise]

I keep a knife in my back. At all times.

Any twisting going on?

 

[Peetz Pool Boy]

Do kids play mumblety-peg anymore? Maybe there's a video version but I don't know how you'd be able to chew the peg out of the screen.

Bobby 'Buckteeth' Bunker was the champ in my neighborhood. His overbite was so bad he could eat the outside of a sandwich first. Helped getting the peg out of the ground, that's for sure.

Me? I just ate a lot of dirt.

Does it require getting up off the sofa and venturing outdoors?

I'm a stunned at how obese my neighbors children are. They're all "walking sausages"

 

[interrobang]

Today, if you even draw a knife or like one on facebook, it gets you suspended from school.