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Do you play cornhole

 
 
Reply Thu 29 Aug, 2013 12:59 pm
Sunday Parade where in an article entitled Game Time, "Most fans swill from red and blue plastic cups. Children throw footballs and play cornhole"

Things sure have changed since I was a kid. Just recently for instance "****" Has been approved for use in the tv show

Of course it's always been okay to okay to swill, but cornhole????

I understand and of course in noun form it's a kids' game, but for gosh sake fellas, the verb

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cornhole?rdfrom=Cornhole
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neologist
 
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Reply Thu 29 Aug, 2013 09:36 pm
@dalehileman,
Are you talking about Parade magazine?
Surely, there is an explanation we are not aware of.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Fri 30 Aug, 2013 01:04 pm
@neologist,
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Are you talking about Parade magazine?
Yes Neo I believe that's what they call/called this Sunday supplement. There's now a ".com"

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Surely, there is an explanation we are not aware of.
My reaction also. The only conclusion I can come to: The verbal meaning so common in our youth has so dropped out of common usage as to make it okay with ref to the game
neologist
 
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Reply Fri 30 Aug, 2013 07:04 pm
@dalehileman,
Must we educate this feeble generation about the nether words?
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sat 31 Aug, 2013 10:21 am
@neologist,
Apparently, Neo
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 31 Aug, 2013 11:49 am
@dalehileman,
I doubt there are many who don't understand the vulgar meaning.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sat 31 Aug, 2013 12:41 pm
@roger,
Yea Rog that was my supposition too
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Baldimo
 
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Reply Wed 4 Sep, 2013 11:17 am
@dalehileman,
For years I have know it as an game played in the yard. My sister and her family have Cornhole parties in which the adults turn it into a drinking game.

http://www.cornholeparty.com/rules/
dalehileman
 
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Reply Wed 4 Sep, 2013 02:03 pm
@Baldimo,
Yet Mo don't you find its use strange as I've cited

Leading me to inquire if I might, what's your age and are you native US
Baldimo
 
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Reply Wed 4 Sep, 2013 02:22 pm
@dalehileman,
It is just another word that has changed over time. Take gay for instance; it used to mean happy, now it means someone attracted to someone of the same gender.

I'm 40 (next month) and I was born in the US. Colorado to be exact.
neologist
 
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Reply Wed 4 Sep, 2013 04:41 pm
@Baldimo,
Non straight gay is derived from the French gai, if I am not mistaken.

Far from happy, IMHO
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Wed 4 Sep, 2013 04:48 pm
@Baldimo,
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It is just another word that has changed over time.
"... the true history of the game is murky at best," though anal sex use came into use around the year I was born, circa 1930.

https://www.google.ca/#q=first+use+of+cornhole+to+mean+anal+sex

It's not entirely clear but evidently popularity as the kids' game followed somewhat later. So I suspect the writer I had cited was unaware of the sexual connotation still very current

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I'm 40 (next month) and I was born in the US. Colorado to be exact.
And yet Mo I gather you weren't surprised by the citation, and that's why I had asked about your age

Nonetheless interesting you should mention "gay," its new use surprising because originally it was disdainful
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