Date:  Tue, 24 May 1994 12:49:45 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: dog pile



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>   In eastern Kansas, where I was a kid, we always called the game of

>   piling on "dog pile".

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>   I always suspected kids in Kansas during the 60's were somehow

>   different.

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>   Randy Roberts

>   Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

>   robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu



My neighbors were from Kansas, and I believe that I heard them say "dog

pile" for the game of crushing people on the bottom of a pile of bodies.







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu