Posted on 08/31/2017 7:06:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
I had to google it. Kind of like a game of horse shoes, but instead, you toss bean bags and try to get them in the hole.
It’s a lawn game, nothing degenerate about it. Unfortunate name, perhaps, for those whose minds run in such directions.
I know the game, it is played all over here in Florida. It is the name itself to which I object.
Growing up in the North, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first heard someone make a reference to “Playing Cornhole”, shortly after moving to the South. Then I realized it was just a dialect thing...
I am unable to see the word “Cornhole” without two things happening:
1.) Feeling surprised each time I read or hear the word that a word with such a scatological history is mainstream and printed and spoken without reservation.
2.) Thinking immediately of Beavis with his t-shirt over his head, breaking into the cockpit of the airplane muttering “I need TP for my Bunghole!”
Never played cornhole until I moved to the south... I prefer to call it beanbag toss. It just sounds better...LOL
(not a Photoshop! And I do know the etymology of the word...:)
LOL, when I was a young man looking to buy my first house, I had a friend experienced in these things (which I wasn’t) explain a mortgage to me.
He patiently wrote it out on paper, explaining as he went, and said: “So, at the end, even though you took out the loan for this, you are paying back this...”
I sputtered indignantly “They...they...they can’t do that! That’s...that’s...that’s loan sharking!”
My friend had a big grin on his face and said “Oh, yes they can, and it is perfectly legal!”
He still tells that story of how he educated me on a mortgage, and has the same grin when he tells it!
Just another example of a word being ‘hijacked’ from what ‘we’ once knew it to be.
Couple of years ago a local car dealership (Koons) had an add with a mixture of people in it.
One depiction was a young Black lady standing under the company name sign with the S out of the picture.
More recently, a company is advertising paper towels or something of that effect, with a mixture of Black and White actors participating.
The last person is a Black man and the ‘new’ logo comes on the screen.
“buy your own Shine”
Both examples require being of a certain age but, like the ‘game’ cornhole— I cringe every time I go by an organization with the sign
“Sign up for our Cornhole Tournament”
The first time I heard what the subject game is called I said that ain’t right. They need to give it another name since the current one was taken a long time ago. And it wasn’t a game either.
Whoever thought this up at that lottery is a PR genius...
A casino on every corner you say? If you can buy state lottery scratch tickets on every corner, what is really the difference?
Otherwise, they are being hypocritical.
Isn’t that what Obama played in Honolulu to get spending money for dope and clothes?
Well...that’s marketing in a nutshell!
I cringe every time I hear this phrase/game/whatever. If you won big money on this lottery game I can hear it now “I MADE MY MONEY BY CORNHOLE”..Just doesn’t seem right..
Yikes! People have too much time on their hands.
Cornhole cash? Isn’t this a popular game in San Francisco?
A wine barrel has a bung. Probably a whiskey barrel as well.
How does it “steal” money from the poor?
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