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To: gpowell who wrote (1912)	4/11/2001 1:19:33 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Hi gpowell; The game I recall from youth was called "Mumbledy Peg", and involved standing in grass facing each other, with a concrete sidewalk running 2 feet or so to one side. You threw your (opened) pocket knife so that the blade stuck into the grass between the other guy's foot and the sidewalk. The rules: If the knife doesn't stick, you lose, and need to get more practice! If the knife does stick into the grass, the other guy slides his foot up against the knife, and it's his turn to throw near your foot. By the way, the farther you throw away from his foot, the smaller your target will be the next time it's your turn to throw. And of course if you throw your knife into the sidewalk it will break the tip. So of course you throw your knife as close to his foot as you can. If the other guy pulls his foot away when you throw, you check where the knife landed relative to the impression his shoe left in the grass. If the knife would have gone through his shoe, then you lose, and need to practice your aim! (Or control your excessively aggressive tendencies.) If the knife would have missed his foot, then he loses, and in addition, he's chicken, LOL!!! You could expect lots of observers for one of these contests, they were great. Most of your time was spent practicing how to accurately and repeatedly throw a pocket knife such that it stuck blade first into the ground. I seem to recall that the usual technique was to hold it by the blade and toss it underhand. I bet I could still do it. (G) -- Carl