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On a calm night, in a cemetary, play tag while holding a candle that must not go out. additional rules can vary. hot wax an issue.
Beetle Drive
http://www.stotfold.../supporters/beetle/
Seems the Scouts do it, too. And they serve refreshments. [calum, Jan 14 2002]
Cooties the Hasbro game.
http://shop.store.y...eonline/cootie.html
Ok, so a less fancy version of this... [StarChaser, Jan 14 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Note the "calm night" part. |
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This is great. And if you were all dressed in black sheets, it would scare the hell out of the old ladies coming back, merry on sherry, from a WRI beetle drive. |
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Sounds like fun. Would using a mini-mag that converts into a candle be cheating? Hurricane lamp or lantern? It doesn't say that we have to keep the candle uncontained. Can the candle be considered to "go out" if it's not lit in the first place? |
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What's a 'WRI beetle drive'? |
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I think he means WI (women's institute)
beetle drive used to be an evenings entertainment ?
like a whist drive? various groups of people play a game and then all move to different table, new game, new people - god I wish I hadn't started this.... |
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Have you ever tried to keep a candle lit in a cemetary at night? Right bloody pain in the arse, it is. Do they make special candles for necromancy, d'ya think? |
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Heeheehee, you can't catch me! |
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[Guy Fox], yes, they do make special candles for necromancy. You can get them at the local supermarket for $5.95. Raise the dead with pride. |
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Again, my parochialism shines through.
The WRI is the Women's Rural Institute. It is the same as the WI, except that it is rural. For some reason, I connect graveyeards with rural areas.
A beetle drive is like a whist drive, but with beetles. It's a sort of fund raising activity, the sort of fund raising activity performed by the aging spinsters who make up the WRI. |
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splitting hairs, young man. now explain beetle drive to an American! |
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I had a '67 hardtop beetle and a '71 super beetle convertible. Sold them both and gave proceeds to my favo(u)rite charity - Me. |
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I had a 73 standard and a 74 super beetle. Super beetles suck. |
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Re [calum]'s link: That Beetle Drive sounds like a really exciting event. |
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What exactly were you kissing and catching in graveyards, [blissmiss]? |
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bliss, I dunno. I think it would be better played in the nude. There's the increaseed element of danger with more skin exposed for potential hot wax incidents. Plus, naked bodies always look good by candlelight. |
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I'd forego the cemetery though. |
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do you mind awfully if we defer these nude drunken romps in the churchyard until the summer?
put me down for bringing the fruit trifle. |
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<A link appears re 'beetle drive'> |
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Ah. A simple version of the old Hasbro game 'Cooties'. <A plastic bug. You rolled dice and tried to get certain numbers to let you put parts on your bug.> |
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4 a : a strong systematic group effort <a fund-raising drive. |
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c/o websters online dictionary |
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don't trifle with me today , you 240lb gorilla you. |
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Nobody had ever mentioned it was any sort of fund raising thing. In the US, a 'beetle drive' would be 'bring us beetles'. |
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i'm confused about the issue we get to hot wax, but i really hope it's either campaign finance reform, or the last Sunday NY Times. |
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