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The pastime of dwile flonking (also dwyle flunking) involves two teams, each taking a turn to dance around the other while attempting to avoid a beer-soaked dwile (cloth) thrown by the non-dancing team.〔(Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports ) by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew〕〔 "Dwile" is a knitted floor cloth, from the Dutch ''dweil'', meaning "mop",〔 〕 and "flonk" is probably a corruption of flong, an old past tense of fling.〔The BBC provides photos of seasoned flonkers here () and here ().〕 ==Rules== According to the Friends of the Lewes Arms, "The rules of the game are impenetrable and the result is always contested."〔(The Lewes Arms )〕 A "dull witted person" is chosen as the referee or "jobanowl", and the two teams decide who flonks first by tossing a sugar beet. The game begins when the jobanowl shouts, "Here y'go t'gither!" The non-flonking team joins hands and dances in a circle around a member of the flonking team, a practice known as "girting". The flonker dips his dwile-tipped "driveller" (a pole 2–3 ft long and made from hazel or yew) into a bucket of beer, then spins around in the opposite direction to the girters and flonks his dwile at them. If the dwile misses completely it is known as a "swadger" or a "swage". When this happens, the flonker must drink the contents of an ale-filled "gazunder" (chamber pot ("goes-under" the bed)) before the wet dwile has passed from hand to hand along the line of now non-girting girters chanting the ceremonial mantra of "pot pot pot". A full game comprises four "snurds", each snurd being one team taking a turn at girting. The jobanowl adds interest and difficulty to the game by randomly switching the direction of rotation and will levy drinking penalties on any player found not taking the game seriously enough. Points are awarded as follows: * +3: a "wanton" - a direct hit on a girter's head * +2: a "morther" or "marther" - a body hit * +1: a "ripple" or "ripper" - a leg hit * -1 per sober person at the end of the game At the end of the game, the team with the most number of points wins, and will be awarded a ceremonial pewter gazunder. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dwile flonking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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