[Chancellor Palpatine]

Its kind of like the basic line you can ask anybody who is helping out a boy scout troop - any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks.

[KCmark]

Do they still say, "Luuuuke, I am your Faa-therr" while sword fighting?

[RonF]

Its kind of like the basic line you can ask anybody who is helping out a boy scout troop - any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks.

10-4 on that. Although there is another problem, these days. The "hip-hop" culture teaches the kids that they can't take any slight or minor defeat in passing. They have to retaliate to maintain their reputation, and not just in kind but in escalation. An accidental bump must be returned deliberately. A strong word merits a blow in return, a blow merits an assault with a weapon. It's not like the old days when a couple of kids could mix it up and then be done with it. I've had to step in and stop things and get adults involved where in my day we'd have just let the kids duke it out.

[RipSawyer]

"Its kind of like the basic line you can ask anybody who is helping out a boy scout troop - any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks."

When I was a kid we used to have dirt clod wars, it was considered unmanly to throw one with a rock in it. Sometimes we had corn cob wars, a soaking wet corn cob can really hurt but once my older brother threw a whole ear of corn with the dry kernels and the shuck still on and caught me full across the mouth as I came around a corner of the barn. When I could talk again I told him that was cheating. Oh, for the good old days. Fifty years later and I can still sometimes find the small scars from all my childhood fun and games.

[asformeandformyhouse]

any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks.

Amen to the boys and sticks thing. I have two sons, 9 and 5, and I am always finding sticks stashed in the garage. I remember that I used to have more fun with sticks I found than most of the toys I was bought. Recieving a bundle of sticks on Christmas is supposed to be a bad thing. Not for my boys.