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"Things sure aren't what they use to be," said my grandfather. He should know considering he was born March 3, 1930. Son of Robert and Clara Long, Robert Long was born in Richmond, Kentucky and lived most of his childhood there. He was the fifth child of six, ....

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.... is the way that he was taught. "Ninety-nine percent of the younger generation played this game", my grandfather said. It is hard to explain, but it involves a pocketknife with two blades and a "peg-shaped" object. Kids would stick the blades out to form an "L" and would fling the knife to the ground. Depending on which way the knife stuck in the ground, players would receive more or less points. The winner would drive the peg into the ground with the pocketknife either once with their eyes open, or twice with their eyes shut. The loser would get the peg out of the ground with their teeth. "I guess that is where the name 'mumble' came from", m ....