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To: Maceman

In grade school in the late 1950’s we played mumbley peg at recess. Most of the boys had a knife in their pocket at school.


14 posted on 01/07/2014 4:45:41 AM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Senator_Blutarski
In grade school in the late 1950’s we played mumbley peg at recess. Most of the boys had a knife in their pocket at school.

That game plus Marbles were all the rage at my school in the early 50s. With marbles, you dare not let your parents know that you were playing "for keeps" because that was "gambling".

26 posted on 01/07/2014 5:35:12 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

“In grade school in the late 1950’s we played mumbley peg at recess. Most of the boys had a knife in their pocket at school.”

In the old movie “Boystown” Mickey Rooney gives a jacknife to a kid about 6 or 7 and no one raises an eyebrow. How society has changed, and not for the better.


32 posted on 01/07/2014 6:20:21 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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Dittos. Before school, recess, lunch and after school. All the fellas played. I can remember teachers and staff, on occasion, checking our games out as we played! We used to stone our blade’s tips on our desktops right in class! Today the SWAT teams, crisis counseling, shrinks etc. etc. would be called in. A long, long time ago in a very different America.....I miss that America.


44 posted on 01/07/2014 10:31:08 AM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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