The 2017 Guinness World Records is out, with two tiddlywinks records in the printed edition.
https://issuu.com/werewolf…/docs/guinness_world_records_2017
Plus 4 additional Guinness World Records are listed at: http://guinnessworldrecords.com/search?term=tiddlywinks
// The aim of this activity is for students to use tiddlywinks to represent sections of jumping genes, which they then flick onto a poster which is representative of a section of the human genome. Where their "gene" lands either will or will not disrupt the gene and may then cause disease. //
http://www2.le.ac.uk/…/ge…/vgec/highereducation/jumpinggenes
Watch out for flying winks and sharp squidgers!
From 1938: // Albany, May 30 - (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, who spends a bit of his time in the Brooklyn subway, came up today with a constitutional convention program that would guarantee [...]te compensation for injured tiddle-dy-winks players.
This ws just one of the benefits that would accrue from his "suggested reforms," some of which he said were inspired by proposals already before the convention. Others... [he] admitted, just came to him while ["]while reading the advertising [...]s in the subway."
The Brooklyn jurist put forward [...] "program" in a letter made public by James L. Dowsey, chairman of the convention's committee on counties and towns.
"Why stop at the 652 proposals submitted which would provide everything from insurance for injured student athletes to reapportionment of legislative districts," Steinbrink inferred, as he told Dowsey:
"You really ought to insist on everything going into the constitution that would affect the few [...] the many, so long as it befitted someone..."
It was that suggestion to take care of those who are hurt, as the justice said, "while fighting for 'dear old Alma Mater,'" that inspired his own ideas on sports insurance.
"When I was a kid and playing tiddle-dy-winks," he explained "I snapped one of my little chips so hard that it bounced over the table and struck my playmate in the eye."
"So let's broaden the provision for compensation for football injury by including all sports," he suggested. "I don't think this would make our youth sissies. They would just ghet the feeling that the dear old Empire State was standing behind them - whether in football, badminton or shuffleboard. // Cornell Daily Sun, 31 May 1938, page 3
We're in the midst of NATwA's Singles championships, held this winkend in Vienna, Virginia. Here are pix from the first day. Hmm. After the first round robin and two games into the second round robin, Larry Kahn is in first place with 42 1/2 points, with three games to go. Bob Henninge is in second place with 31 1/2 points.
// I'll read the question once again, Mr. Mooney! "Name the man who invented the game of tiddlywinks and state where the first game was played!" // from the Mickey Finn comic strip by Lank Leonard, 18 September 1955, coincidentally the year the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club was founded in England.
From 29 September 1961: the Big George cartoon by Virgil Partch. Big George first appeared in 1960 and continued to 1990: http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-22/…/vw-20831_1_cartoons
We had a great conversation this evening by telephone with Harvard tiddlywinks pioneer, Jim Parry. He was captain of the Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society (GUTS) that played against the invading Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (OUTS) team during its six week tour of America in 1962 (and GUTS lost, as did all OUTS competitors). The Gargoyle was a Harvard humor magazine formed by Jim Parry and friends earlier in 1962 to compete with the Lampoon.
After GUTS' loss ...to OUTS, GUTS then challenged each college or university that was to compete against Harvard's football team each weekend during the Fall of 1962. GUTS challenged each to a tiddlywinks competition on the morning before the football match, and they won every match.
After each tiddlywinks match, Jim Parry informed the Harvard Public Address (PA) Announcer at the football game and armed him with the winning score of Harvard's tiddlywinks team, and the PA announcer relayed the winning results to the appreciative crowd at the football game.
One of the best designed commercial tiddlywinks sets is part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics: Chad Valley's Tidleywinks, made entirely of plastic. They estimate the date produced to be in the 1930s. The container and pot come in a variety of colors, from blue to brown to red to white to green and more. And the four colors of winks are top quality.
The Museum of Design in Plastics is part of the Arts University Bournemouth in England.
From 1918. Headline: Indoor Sports For the Interned During the Influenza Epidemic. No. 11 - Tiddledy-Winks.
The flu pandemic from 1918 to 1920 killed around 50 million or more people worldwide. -
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article
http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/index.html...
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
// This world is full of uncertainties, disappointments, mud and fake hair restorers. There are also quite a number of nuts scattered broadcast up and down the universe, but it is doubtful if there are many who still play the good old-fashioned game of Tiddledy-winks.
About the same time that knighthood was in flower, or probably a little later when Lord Cornwalis was in Dutch, Tiddledy-winks was all the rage. Life was one little excitement after another when our forefathers circled around the candle-flames and played Tiddledy-winks with the family until the late hour of 8:30 p.m. [...]
To play Tiddeldy-winks one must have an outfit especially constructed for said contest. Small round men, a little glass jar for a goal and another "man" as a "prod" make up the outfit. The goal is a certain distance from each contestant and four men are furnished the participants. By pressing with the "prod" on the edge of the men, they are snapped towards to goal. The lucky guy who gets all of his men in the cup with the fewest number of prods naturally wins the game.
In the good old days before the great drouth swept over the country and the major portion of it was declared bone dry, the winner after each contest sipped from a jug of rum. This was his privilege and it helped put interest in the game.
Tiddledy-winks never reached such a height in popularity that international contests for the championship of the world were staged, neither was a king ever dethroned on account of tiddledywinks, but it was highly amusing in its period and required a certain skill by the devotees of the art. [...]
When the family sits at home
And there ain't a thing to do;
And you're bored from toe to dome,
You can blame it on the "flu." //
Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama), 26 October 1918, page 6
Winks coverage in the Boston College newspaper, The Heights, on 11 March 1966, page 7, column 1.
The Oxford Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society toured the United States, playing the New York Giants, employees at the Seattle World's Fair, Bucks County Playhouse actors, Harvard, and so on, from 3 August 1962 to 8 September 1962. The Guinness Stout company sponsored their tour, which was planned and organized by Joseph Venaglia of College Market Consultants.
Image from: Christian Science Monitor, 1 October 1962, page 13.
From the Lafayette College yearbook, The Melange, in 1909, pages 262-265. Lafayette College is in Easton, Pennsylvania - https://archive.org/stream/melange1909lafa#page/262/mode/2up
// The Tiddledy-Winks Club
Never had Lafayette College been represented by a Tiddledy-wink team. “On gridiron field and track’’ were ’Varsity L’s long-cherished and honored possessions among undergraduates, but Tiddledy-winks was left unnoticed and even scorned by the powers that be in Lafayette’s...
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From MIT's The Tech student newspaper on 1 January 1891:
// HOW WE SHALL SPEND CHRISTMAS EVENING.
Some will read Shakespeare and Browning
...And some read the Bible, methinks;
Some will work hard at their duties,
The rest will play Tiddledy Winks.
- Brunonian. //
// So some of us indulge in the rather extravagant intellectual luxury of chess, and others rush bravely into the tiddledy wink area, and each set thinks the other is misemploying its time. // - The Oberlin Review, 17 February 1891, page 2, column 1
