Egg and spoon race with a golf ball

veryangryman

My primary school did this on sports days (early 90s).

For some reason I assumed everyone's did.

Anyway, any penny pinching stuff yours did? I guess the older folk here wil have some dinger stories

Leg End Reject

In my day eggs were cheaper and more easily acquired than a golf ball.

Quantum Erasure

yeah, we used spuds...

StupidLikeAFox

To cut costs my school golf team used eggs instead of golf balls.

Korio

No)) We have long ceased to do this)

Sgt Hartman

We used to do Spud and Spoon races with a potato on a tablespoon

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119694484#Comment_119694484

Hard boiled, I hope?

EmmetSpiceland

I don’t think it was a “penny pinching” measure, at least that’s not what we were told.

It was some health and safety reason, story went that some lad in another school fell on his egg and the shell did some damage to his eye. And that was the end of using eggs.

No idea if any of it was true or not but it really changed the sport completely.

Feisar

Spud and spoon in our school back in the day. They stopped using eggs after lads started firing them at each other one year.

Gregor Samsa

Using an egg isn't all it's cracked up to be. They're delicate yokes. You'd shell out a lot for a supply of them for a sports day. I'd lay bets that most events use a substitute now. I'm sure there's conspiracy theories hatched as to why, but I think it's fair en oeuf.

Etc. Etc...

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119695048#Comment_119695048

That reminds me of the far off days when I was in my late teens and I went on an inter-rail holiday around France, with leaving cert (next to none) spoken French.

Being Irish, I used the phrase 'fair enough' whenever something was being explained to me, usually when buying train tickets or food in restaurants. It always resulted in a puzzled look from the native French, until I eventually realised that it sounded like the french words 'faire en oeuf' ....

They were very puzzled as to why I was telling them to 'make an egg'.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119695091#Comment_119695091

If a South African ever does you a favour, you should suggest to them to "buy a donkey". In Africaans, "Thank you very much" is "Baie dankie". 😀

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119694484#Comment_119694484

you had a "school golf team"- well laaa dee dahhhhh you.