[Sca-cooks] hurley

[pandoraf at verizon.net]

ah, yes -- shinty being the English name for the Gaelic sport of camanachd, also called iomain, which is ancient (I don't have notes in front of me on specifics, but there are effigies and other medieval art showing shinty sticks).

OFC -- I'm envisioning shinty sticks made out of bread, and shinty balls of ... cheese, maybe. would make for an intersting variation on food fight -- table shinty!

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> In the OED, the earlist reference to Shinty is
> 1771.  
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> Huette
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