h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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croquet - useing a mallet to wack small balls through hoops

Actually have played that one, when I was really little.

Though I used the clubs (are they called clubs??) mostly for pounding pointed sticks into the ground in an attempt to get to the other side of the earth.

I think I was a mite bizarre as a youngster.

I think they're called mallets, Amy.

:::re-strings his tennis bat:::

can we settle on "wacking the ball type thingies" ..?

Wouldn't you technically be malleting the ball type thingies?

Hmm... I always perferred "spiked raquet of death" for tennis "bat"...

Yep, we girls in "band gym" (called so only because it flip flopped perfectly in our schedules with concert band) started having a bit too much fun with the tennis part of gym class...

Heh, heh ... that's nice, Amy ...

::backs away slowly::

Oh, come back here, those were my friends' ideas and thinking about tennis always brings them to mind...



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what game do you play with a wombat?

wom

Didn't get it

Me neither... well, sort of, but it doesn't make much sense. Sorry, man.

for everyone!

well, you play cricket with a cricket bat, baseball with a baseball bat and...other games with similarly named apparatus. Wom, therefore, is played with a wombat.

it was a pun or play on words. a wombat is a small marsupial, but were there a game named wom, which required a tool of some description, said tool may well be called a wom bat, or, when abbreviated for comic affect, a wombat, which refers to the aforementioned marsupial of the same nomenclature.

i hope that clears it all up for you