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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (10 children)

"Bag toss" lol

Satire site doesn't wanna say cornhole?

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm a gay northerner who moved to Georgia many years ago. When one of my co-workers said he was going to go play cornhole with his buddies, I asked if I could come too.

    Needless to say, I was terribly disappointed.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My wife calls it 'bags'. Hung my head low the day I found out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I was 35 before I heard it called anything but bags. I only found out it’s called cornhole (because I guess the bags used to be filled with corn?) because I was at a bar, and it was on. On ESPN. That’s also the day I learned ESPN will show just about anything that can be classified as a sport or game when there aren’t major sports events going on.

    I laughed for a solid several minutes about it. (Thankfully I was not by myself or I’d have looked like a nutter)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Saying pop vs soda can get you killed in some places. This ain't shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Soda weirdos are the ones calling it bags.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The word "soda" comes from the sodium salts in carbonated water, which reduce the liquid's acidity. The word may also come from the Italian word suwwād, which refers to a saltwort that can be used to obtain sodium carbonate. The first known use of the word "soda" was in 1558.

    The term "pop" was first used in the early 19th century as a colloquial term for fizzy drinks. The earliest known use of the word was in 1812, when poet Robert Southey wrote in a letter that a new drink was "called pop, because 'pop goes the cork' when it is drawn". The term "soda pop" was later combined from the words "pop" and "soda" in 1863.

    I mean soda was around to refer to a carbonated beverage hundreds of years before pop came into use. Plus pop is one of those confusing English language words that can mean a few different things (dad, loud-noise, carbonated-beverage, punch, arrive, etc.). You do you though. And keep thinking anybody who does things differently than you is weird. That's healthy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I just assumed some global megacorp had finally managed to get "Cornhole" through the trademark office and started suing everyone into oblivion. Must be time for an internet break to rebalance the pessimism.

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