Marbles, the gate way drug.

You gimme that cow's eye or your dog's head is going into the toilet!

Yeah, we gambled when we were kids, too. We played a game called Poison where we dug holes much like a baseball diamond and pitcher's mound. Then we played the game and whoever won got to keep everybody else's played marble. We had other games that basically involved trying to hit each other's marbles across a big field.

We even did a loan system if somebody wanted to play but didn't have any marbles. We let a kid borrow 5 marbles. When he had 15 marbles, he gave back 10 and then he had his own 5 marbles to play with.

No pitching pennies?

What happened to playing 'flips' like I did in school?

MoronLessOff: The Homer Tax: Kids still play marbles?

That's awesome.

That said, they are a gateway drug. Marbles leads to Pogs, which leads to Bakugan, which leads to Pokemon cards, which leads to Magic: The Gathering, which leads to poker, which leads to Casino Craps, which leads to back-alley craps, which leads to cockfighting, which leads to beerfest, which leads to drowning in a giant vat of beer.

You want your kid to die in a giant vat of beer? Then you nip that shiat in the bud when it's just marbles.

My high school would put a stop to our Magic games. There reasoning wasn't necessarily no gambling, but no card games. My debate teacher took it a step further. IT'S WITCHCRAFT AND IT'S EVIL.

/Nope, it was a public high school.

My senior year Geology teacher was cool. When we played cards, he'd come and ask to be dealt it

EatsCrayons:
Are kids really that retarded?

Do you really need to ask that question?

groppet: At my school we used to pencil fight, school banned that

Pencil fighting went on for a while at my school before it got banned. Then, some parents got upset, though, that Precious Little Johnny was spending part of his lunch money at the pencil dispenser because he sucked, so the teachers gave a stern "Don't!" at us. Then never enforced it. Our teachers were basically OK with dumb kids doing dumb kid things that kept them out of real trouble.

Pencil-based mumbletypeg was banned in short order, though. Not because anybody was getting hurt, but because it was tearing up the lawn pretty badly and costing the school additional maintenance.

That's a nice Big Wheel you have. Be a shame if something happened to it.

MoronLessOff: Trance750: What happened to playing 'flips' like I did in school?

I never played, but it was pretty big in my school too. Easy and fast to play, so no one really got busted for it. I played Knuckles though, and I won that a lot.

I got busted once, only because I didn't know one of the coaches was standing right behind me. Just said 'Save it for las Vegas, kids' and left

The Homer Tax: Kids still play marbles?

That's awesome.

That said, they are a gateway drug. Marbles leads to Pogs, which leads to Bakugan, which leads to Pokemon cards, which leads to Magic: The Gathering, which leads to poker, which leads to Casino Craps, which leads to back-alley craps, which leads to cockfighting, which leads to beerfest, which leads to drowning in a giant vat of beer.

You want your kid to die in a giant vat of beer? Then you nip that shiat in the bud when it's just marbles.

That's totally epic.

supayoda: Oh wow... Pogs! That brings back memories...



Remember ALF? He's back... in POG form

/First thing I thought of