Anyway, the conker championships. There are an awful lot of extremely pissed people with conkers on strings bashing the hell out of other conkers on strings held by the opposing person.A fine story! You Brits really are a bit eccentric, what? We made conkers ourselves as kids in Ontario only we didn't have a name for them. And we didn't use them to "conk" anyone else's conker either. We used them like boleros. We swung the 'conkers' around our heads until they achieved a furious speed and then we let them loose in the direction of a human target some distance away. We weren't very good at it ... fortunately. Smashing a conker seems a bit of a waste of a good conk, which explains, perhaps, why serious conkers prefer to get conked on beer before they get down to
conketition. Thanks for your story.
