Should Cornhole Be An Olympic Sport?

The Cornhole Post | 10/31/20 | blueunicorn6

[higgmeister]

It is not some bean bag game.

If it was, it would be called Beanhole.

The rules specifically call for corn filled bags.

You don't get to make up reality as you see fit. Look in a dictionary for Beanbag.

beanbag [ /ˈbēnˌbaɡ/]
noun
1. a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.

2. any such game.

3. any similar bag used as a cushion or support, as the base for an ashtray, etc.

4. Also called beanbag chair . a large, soft, frameless chair resembling a beanbag, typically a clothlike plastic shell, filled with plastic chips, that molds itself readily to the contours of the occupant.

Then look up cornbag.

No results found for cornbag

Then look at the previous history of the unfortunate word cornhole going back over one hundred years meaning a homosexual act.

And an article in (the Cincinnati?) Enquirer and the Corn Hole Game Association which essentially agree that history is contested and no date is available. The game itself has probably been around as long as it was feasible to put corn or other seed into a sack and toss it at something. While the name cornhole would probably have been independently coined all over the place, its universal acceptance as a name of the game doesn't appear much earlier than the 2000s. There are often tales of people using the name earlier but apparently none of them ever decided to publish a book.

Given its other usage having already been published in various forms it seems safe to say the word's primary meaning during the mid-1900s was significantly less innocent than a game played with sacks of corn. Whether anyone was calling the game cornhole then or not, that was mostly likely not the meaning of the word.

So even if the game was first started in Germany in the 14th century it wasn't called that name.

That ugly name was not documented in literature for a children's game until the 1990's

[blueunicorn6]

I do so get to make up reality.

You are now a clam.

[blueunicorn6]

Let’s see if a clam can type.