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So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

Now, it seems, it's a legitimate sport. How long until we see it in the Olympics?

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:33 pm

So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

Now, it seems, it's a legitimate sport. How long until we see it in the Olympics?

I doubt it will make the Olympics, but I hear Buttphuk Bingo is in the running.

Bryce wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:59 pm

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:33 pm

So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

Now, it seems, it's a legitimate sport. How long until we see it in the Olympics?

I doubt it will make the Olympics, but I hear Buttphuk Bingo is in the running.

You would think that would have made it in the original Greek Olympics.

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:33 pm

So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

I've played that since I was a kid. But it seems it started getting called Cornhole only in the last 10 or 15 years. I think we called it Beanbag. The boards were all homemade back then. Never seen anyone selling them at flea markets or craft shows like now.

If you're really curious, they now televise it on ESPN.... It's now a professional competitive sport, vaseline is a major sponsor.

https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/3059301

Round Six wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:39 pm

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:33 pm

So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

I've played that since I was a kid. But it seems it started getting called Cornhole only in the last 10 or 15 years. I think we called it Beanbag. The boards were all homemade back then. Never seen anyone selling them at flea markets or craft shows like now.

Thank you so much for this reply! I thought I was the only one who thought cornhole was strange word for this game.

When I was a kid, too, it was called “Beanbag Toss”
We had a set. I think the boards had a clown and the holes were buttons on his costume.

I remember living south of here for a while and it seems the word cornhole was of rural or southern origin.

Round Six wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:39 pm

I've played that since I was a kid. But it seems it started getting called Cornhole only in the last 10 or 15 years. I think we called it Beanbag. The boards were all homemade back then. Never seen anyone selling them at flea markets or craft shows like now.

Perhaps they felt that beanbagging needed a name change after the bad rap teabagging got.

"Hey, let's just call it cornholing."

Honeyman wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:49 pm

Bryce wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:59 pm

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:33 pm

So, they're playing a game here now they call cornhole. I'm old enough to remember when cornhole was a vulgar term. If you had asked some guy to play cornhole you might have got a punch in the mouth.

Now, it seems, it's a legitimate sport. How long until we see it in the Olympics?

I doubt it will make the Olympics, but I hear Buttphuk Bingo is in the running.

You would think that would have made it in the original Greek Olympics.

Maybe it’s replaced bowling as the sport for ex-bowlers.

radiofann wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:35 am

Maybe it’s replaced bowling as the sport for ex-bowlers.

We could add golf to that list. Darts too.
If people often drink beer and smoke while playing the "sport" its not much of a sport.

craig11152 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:19 am

We could add golf to that list. Darts too.
If people often drink beer and smoke while playing the "sport" its not much of a sport.

I seen a woman get her nipple pierced at the bar last night .... on a related note I suck at darts.

This is not the thread I thought it would be.

Mega Hertz wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:23 pm

This is not the thread I thought it would be.

Not all of us ponder Montel by the warm glow of the toaster oven.

Round Six wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:40 am

Mega Hertz wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:23 pm

This is not the thread I thought it would be.

Not all of us ponder Montel by the warm glow of the toaster oven.

You should really give it a try.

Mega Hertz wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:54 am

Round Six wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:40 am

Mega Hertz wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:23 pm

This is not the thread I thought it would be.

Not all of us ponder Montel by the warm glow of the toaster oven.

You should really give it a try.

You're such a tease.