Dwile Flonking

[Wizzo]

What? You've never heard of dwile flonking? Let me explain.

The game, which some believe has been played since "medieval times," calls on players to fling a beer-soaked rag from the end of a small stick toward the face of an opponent, and in the event the tosser misses the target two straight times, he must quickly down a half-pint of ale. 

Norfolk District Council banned the traditional bar room game just as the inaugural "world championships" were to take place at the Dog Inn pub in Ludham, Great Yarmouth. The council called the game a "health and safety" problem. 

Damn! Just as I was getting good at it! 

[John S]

Thanks for the memory jog Wizzo, I used to take part in Dwile Flonking sessions. when I was young free and single, at the 18+ club based at the Railway Hotel in Bishop's Stortford in the late 60's & early 70's. It was beer slops from the bar amongst other things like kitchen waste that was in the rag bucket for us.    (you couldn't waste good drinking ale   )

Certainly a more lively evening than the French Cricket or Rounders we also played in the pub yard, a cheap way to get drunk too if your aim was poor. 

A good crowd used to turn up to watch us flonkers fling the dwile, someone always ended up with the last of the brew in the bucket over their head but who cared when you supped more than a few pints for free.   

The Railway Hotel has long since closed to become flats/apartments, now it seems Dwile Flonking is going the same way.

[Slugger]

I have heard of Dwile Flonking thanks to my frequent visits to the out-laws in Norfolk.