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To: pheilman_ who wrote (7309)	11/16/2005 1:21:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12246

Hi Paul. In London in 1986, our children went to a state primary school. They were not allowed on the grass, not allowed bats and balls. Not allowed to play chasey, ball tiggy, and the idea of bullrush would make the staff go postal. Bullrush is where one child stands in the middle of the field and calls up some victim who they have to try to catch before the victim gets to the other end of the field. If they do get to the end, it's "Bullrush!" and everyone charges down to the other end. Then it's back the other way, one at a time, or "Bullrush". When a victim is caught, they join the one in the middle and help catch subsequent victims, until everyone is caught. The winner is the last one to be caught. Some guys are big, tough, and fast and it takes a swarm to get them down. Great fun! I suppose American schools would not want bats [we had axe handles as bats], balls, bullrush, scrag [a kind of wrestling mangling game], chasey, ball tiggy etc would NOT go down well in the litigious USA environment. They are pretty much all banned here now, I think. <I just learned that school kids are forbidden to run during recess at elementary schools in El Cerrito, CA. They are also forbidden to play tag.> Of course we had cap guns and played cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians. Now I think a cap gun would get the armed offenders squad out and killing the child, just to be on the safe side. Sometimes one has to kill the person to save them. A bit like the Brazilian in London who the moronic police shot because they thought he was a terrorist. Mqurice