Date:  Thu, 26 May 1994 11:42:14 -0500

From:  debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU

Subject: Re: Red Rover



Rule books for recess games? Come on, isn't that a lot like saying

language is learned through basal readers rather than from human

interaction? I doubt that the folklorists would look for rulebooks. How

did you learn your jump rope rhymes? Who learned baseball, stickball,

boxball, Chinese and American handball, catchaflies up, Russia, running

bases, or any of the other childhood games from books? not even dorks like

me!



Dennis Baron (the nerd, not to be confused with All-American Preston)

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