Conkers

[finty]

I used to get in fights all the time 'cause I would just hit people round the noggin with them.

 

[LHC]

You were the scum of the playground and I hope you got beaten up for it.

 

[PinkSpider]

The best fun isnt playing; its throwing sticks at trees.

 

[thebluenewt]

The best fun isnt playing; its throwing sticks at trees.

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They cut some horse chestnut trees down to stumpy-type objects in South Shields because of that... Stupid council.

 

[DemonStar55]

Conkers Pocket Tales (GBC) is a fun game!

I never even played or heard of those befor but no I know what they are and why its called Conker's pocket tales

 

[yaustar]

Did anyone try to use tricks like soaking them in vinegar to make them harder?

 

[andius]

We don't do anything like that in the U.S
Haha Yaustar soaks his nuts in vinagar to make them harder

 

[yaustar]

haha, I knew that was coming

 

[Aldur]

when i went to primary school there used to be massive fights around the conker tree to get conkers

 

[finty]

The fights were the best part of the conker season.

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

ppl in my school been throwin them at each other. i prefer not to, but i catch em and just throw em back. nailed a few year 7s.

 

[sam fisher]

I gave one loads of coats in varnish but in a month of winning the wear and tear got to it and the varnish got 1 crack in it. I wanted perfection so smashed it with a hammer. Then did the same again and gave it a coat of concrete around it then varnished it again then painted it like a normal conker and then varnished agian so it looked like a real varnished conker that was big. It smashed apart the oppisition. It got nonfiscated because some stupid kid nicked it and threw it at someones head.

 

[Skop]

Any of you play conker rules such as 'windmills' (number of times you hit the conker and it swung round vertically, you got to hit again)

or Stamps? (not sure if that was the original name. Where if you managed to hit a conker off the other persons shoe-string, you had the right to rush and stamp on it repeatedly before it could be recovered).

Good times....good times...

 

[thebluenewt]

Any of you play conker rules such as 'windmills' (number of times you hit the conker and it swung round vertically, you got to hit again)

or Stamps? (not sure if that was the original name. Where if you managed to hit a conker off the other persons shoe-string, you had the right to rush and stamp on it repeatedly before it could be recovered).

Good times....good times...

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Aye, stamps was a cruel rule. I lost a 2-times champion to that...

 

[kknd_cf]

I gave one loads of coats in varnish but in a month of winning the wear and tear got to it and the varnish got 1 crack in it. I wanted perfection so smashed it with a hammer. Then did the same again and gave it a coat of concrete around it then varnished it again then painted it like a normal conker and then varnished agian so it looked like a real varnished conker that was big. It smashed apart the oppisition. It got nonfiscated because some stupid kid nicked it and threw it at someones head.

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was that completely true?

 

[sam fisher]

yes. My mates dad had concrete in his garage and showed us how to mix it up right and everything. Well he did the concrete mixing but we made the conker.

 

[MegatronUK]

There used to be ads in comics for 'unbreakable' conkers... I once bought half a dozen of them... BLIMMIN HECK! they were as hard as diamond!

Took 'em to school....

Everyone looked at them... (they looked about a million years old!)

"We're not playing against you"

... bum

Best laces were Doc M's with a massive knot underneath... so it would never come off the lace... 'stamps' was a standing rule around our way....

I think I may still have one or two of those 'unbreakable' conkers somewhere... they'd be around 18-20 years old now

 

[divadsci]

My brother once had a natural one that was so hard it beat one that had been filled with poly filler. Was the best conker ever, think he ended up losing it.

 

[Dozer]

My brother once had a natural one that was so hard...

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:blink:

 

[kknd_cf]

yes. My mates dad had concrete in his garage and showed us how to mix it up right and everything. Well he did the concrete mixing but we made the conker.

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sweet