- 1. Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:04:32 EDT
- Hi list, Off to SPA next week with my wife and daughter to see the Spridget racing at SPA. Looking through the guide books for one or two other things to do I found that in Ypres there is a cat throw
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00433.html (7,116 bytes)
- 2. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:32:30 -0500
- Perhaps you should try to encourage the reliving of the original tradition. I would LOVE to know the history behind the starting of this festival, as would other listers I am sure.................
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00436.html (7,574 bytes)
- 3. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:07:58 EDT
- Too bad. I could find about 4-5 sneakers around here that I would like to send them. <G> --David C.
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00439.html (7,168 bytes)
- 4. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:49:24 -0400
- "Cats are thrown from the window of the Cloth Hall. However, since 1870 no live cats have been used but stuffed toys instead." What happened in 1870 to end the tradition of throwing live cats? Regard
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00447.html (7,090 bytes)
- 5. Fw: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:45:06 -0400
- When I was 19 or so, I lived in a house that had no front yard. There was maybe 8 feet until you were in the street. One night, during a great party, we invented a game called "sailcat". The house wa
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00451.html (8,422 bytes)
- 6. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:50:32 -0500
- Good Question!!?? Did the ASCPA trace it's heritage back to England??
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00455.html (7,314 bytes)
- 7. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:04:18 EDT
- The invention of Midget (er, dwarf) tossing? Rick
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00458.html (7,202 bytes)
- 8. Re: Cat throwing festival (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:10:52 -0400
- Probably the same thing that happened to me Sat PM when I attempted to give my wife's cat a pill. Damn that hurt.
- /html/spridgets/2001-05/msg00459.html (7,889 bytes)
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