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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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For the inner Napleon Dynamite in us all.
Does anyone as a child of the 80's or later I suppose remember playing tetherball at a local playground during summer, or at a school playground? It was not only competitive, but almost violent where I grew up, kids being smashed in the head by a flying volleyball swinging around a steel post cemented into the ground, kids running into said steel post missing the ball, or better yet getting beaned by said leather wrapped volleyball, being knocked to the cement or asphalt and gashing both head, elbows, or knees. Good Times, Good Times.
This, is yet another sport, that should be in the Sydlexian Olympics
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Thorton02
Joined: Mar 13 2009
Location: Arlington
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I hated tetherball. I remember when they put the pole in at our elementary school. There would be a line of kids waiting to play as soon as we got to go outside. There was always one kid that would dominate by serving the ball really low on his side so it would go over your head(everyone was like 5 ft in 4th grade right?).
4-square was much better albeit less popular.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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Oh I so remember that. My favorite thing to do was detach a mop or broom handle, and pretend I was Robin Hood fighting the evil teatherball with a quarterstaff. Was SO much fun.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Man the school I went to was so ghetto that we just had tetherball ball poles with chains hanging from them, they never had the ropes with balls attached hooked up in the years I was in Elementary, and Middle School and Highschool didn't have tetherball that I can recall. Although if they did at the time I wouldn't have cared, I had different interests to focus upon at that point. 
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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I had a playground with a chain, very dangerous when swung at someone hehe good times
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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My school had tetherballs that were hard as rocks, so it was never much fun to play. Especially in cold weather.
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Posts: 1506
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I remember a cold Pa winter where the tetherball was not only rock hard, as you describe, but coated in ice, that when someone tried to hit it, parts of like a shell of ice shattered and shot off of it
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Frozen tetherball is how you turn boys in to men.
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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I thought you did that by having Michael Bivins produce your first album? hehe
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