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Ever notice how some games
have really, really funny names?
Not all of them are strange, of course.
No, sometimes you can tell the source.
Like Baseball say, just for instance;
bases - balls, makes perfect sense.
In Basketball, the same is true.
The ball in basket scores you two.
But some game names are just plain dumb.
Like ‘Cricket’, where did that come from?
Bugs don’t play, none whatsoever,
and no one rubs their legs together.
The players don’t jump way up high,
they run around like you and I.
You could use a Cricket bat
to kill a cricket, squish him flat!

I just don’t see the sport in that.

And what about the name ‘Lacrosse’?
In English, that would be ‘the cross’.
You have a net, a stick, and a ball,
but not a single cross at all…
Maybe it’s ‘crossing’ ‘cross the ground.
Yes… A verb, and not a noun.
They cross the field in Football too,
but they don’t call it “Lacrosse 2”.
There are strange names of all sorts,
and not just in the world of sports.
Like, in Poker, there’s no poking.
Say “Golf”, it sounds like you’re choking.
In Bridge, there’s no road that ends,
and you play War with all your friends.
Hopscotch, Rummy, Gin… No drinking.
In Tiddley-winks, there is no winking.
You can fish for flies in creeks,
and ‘shoot Pool’, and spring no leaks.
In Cribbage, you don’t need a baby,
and play Croquet with no gravy.
It’s late, I must be on my way.

My Pinochle club meets today.

 "Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all those incredible things."

~ Tom Petty