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13 February 2006

Is it (evar) too late to start praising Ferris Bueller?
In other news, yesterday's Forgotten English calendar entry (by Jeffrey Kacirk) quotes Wm Andrews's Bygone Punishments (1899), saying: Two boys were made to do penance in the church for playing at trip during divine service by standing in the midst of the church with their trip sticks erect. [More inside]

post by: shane at: 15:32 | 5 comments

Personally, I can't recall my trip stick being erect in church since I used to sit next to Joyce Polasko when I was a kid.

Do you have any stories about trip sticks? What the hell IS a trip stick?

posted by shane 13 February | 15:33

KNUR AND SPELL, sb. a game.
The knur is a small round ball, less than a billiard ball. It is put into a cup fixed upon a spring, which being touched causes the ball to rise into the air, when it is struck by a trip-stick. The cup and spring are called the spell. The trip-stick is a slender stick made broad and flat at one end, the knur being struck by the broad part. The game is played on Shrove Tuesday."

Sounds like a kind of fungo cricket.

posted by Hugh Janus 13 February | 15:39

SAVE FERRIS

posted by cmonkey 13 February | 15:42

Oh, that poor, lonely quotation mark. Think of the orphaned punctuation, Hugh, you monster.

posted by Hugh Janus 13 February | 15:42

In two days I trained my flat broad to put the balls back in the spell. It was so easy and now she plays with KnurrAndSpell™ for an hour at a time. It's definately her favorite tripstick toy!

You lazy bastard.

posted by danostuporstar 13 February | 15:59

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