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Originally posted by Snowtractor
Fun-e , good one. You obviously don't know any Newf's , they can row anything anywhere...or was that The Vikings...no that was that football...or soccer? Yes that was it ! Newf's can play soccer anywhere!
There, that proved yu gud! Gotta get back to the Bat Bottle now.  Sean 
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Sean..
When I lived in NFLD as a kid we played Rounders...Piddley..and rugby.....
Only a true Newfounderlander would know what Piddley was..equipment involved two sticks..a long one..about 4' long and a short one about a foot long...usually cut from an old hockey stick
The short one was propped up on a rock so you could get the long one under it and flick it into the air in front of you and then you would whack it ,out of the air with a base ball swing and then the opposing players in the out field would try to catch it out of the air or if it hit the ground you could scoop it up and drift it at the runner..It had one base set up like first base..and the object was to get the other side out..A catch or a hit runner would put him out..sometimes in more ways than one..
Three outs and the other side goes in..
It was a tough game but we were pretty tough kids then...Some of the things we did as kids during the early '50's in the outports of NFLD would get you arrested so fast today they would throw you in jail so far ,that they would have to pump sunlight into you..such as shooting harbour seals with our .22's off the govt wharf and dynamiting boulders out of out soccer pitch without adult supervision..we are talking 10-14 year old kids..No one thought anything about us shooting seals but the local mountie made us stop the dynamiting the soccer field..but that was it..told us to bring our dads up to supervise ..and sent us all home..He even made us take the extra dynamite back to one of the kids dads dynamite lock up and pack it away..(He was a building contractor and every building you built involved dynamite to clear away rocks..The young lad that got the dynamite worked with his dad for years and that was his job so no one thought much about it..)
If that happened to day.......
So that is my Dynamite story..
