Fun Stuff Homepage Other sports on the Net: Mintonett on the Net? Feature Article 11/7/2001 Back in 1895, in a YMCA somewhere in America basketball coach W G Morgan was faced with a class of wealthy businessmen who found his sport a little too rough for their tastes. Fearing loss of their subscriptions, his desperate solution was to mix basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a brand new sport ... read full article Foosball on the net Table Football or, more correctly, Foosball (1) is currently (when this article was originally written it was!) wowing the public at the English Millenium Dome. It's a bumper version, with 44 rows of mini footballers twisled by 22 humans. The exhibit supposedly "demonstrates and encourages teambuilding" However, word has it that guests are wisely using it for a bit of cheap fun!  read full article Biscuits on the net Biscuits ... comprising sugar, flour and fat - from the Latin 'bis coctus' meaning twice-cooked. Criticised by half-cooked western nutritionists for "high calorific density". Wiser people might caution that biscuits have been produced and eaten successfully for thousands upon thousands of years. One fact can not be denied ... biscuits are absolutely yummy. read full article Waterpolo on the net "Don't the horses drown?"... an amusing quote on the subject of water polo?! But wait a minute! The fact is ... 400 years ago, water polo WAS played using horses. Furthermore ... Because so many WERE drowning, the players took to the moderately deep seawater themselves.  read full article Quizzes on the Net The lecture hall seems to echo with footsteps of the past as a scruffy professor with wild white hair shuffles in. read full article Down Lexico way It was 1931, Poughkeepsie USA, and Alfred Mosher Butts had just lost his job. There was little work to be found designing buildings . in fact, there was little work at all. However, rather than mope around flat-capped, posing for Depression Era Photographs, he elected . to devise a board game. Lexico was to be renamed four times over the next 17 years . "New Anagrams", "Alph" , "Criss-Cross" and "Criss-Crosswords". In 1948 "Scrabble" was born.  read full article Bellringing on the Net The art of change ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. read full article Free Shampoo Sample! Just fill out their form and they will send you a sample! http://www.ringingworld.co.uk/sample.html  Get a FREE copy of the Ringing World,  the journal of Church Bell Ringers. It's a Talking Point if nothing else!!! Free Pen Simply fill out the form and comment on their website.   Mini Speed Test Test your typing speed against the whole world. Mini Speed Test. Anyone over 10wpm gets on the high score table. Live Football News Check out the latest football news below. Grab a Chess Book  Use Amazon.co.uk to buy cheap chess books.  Chess on the Web Second Edition - Available Now Chess on the Web written by 3 various members and associates of the Kings Head ... Sarah Hurst, Richard Palliser and Graham Brown.  Vegetarian Guides Check out http://vegetarianguides.co.uk which is the website of member Alex Bourke. A founder of the site he's written lots of great stuff for us and is a professional writer who has Paul McCartney as a fan!  Chess Today www.chesstoday.net. provides daily news, interviews and instruction to a wide range of players. Each issue features one annotated game and news from around the world, while weekend issues have some instructional materials, particularly useful for club players. A typical issue will have between 2 and 3 pages. Subscribers receive an attachment in PDF format, which they can print out and then read Chess Today on a train or over a cup of coffee. Thanks to PDF format (Acrobat Reader is available for free) readers will be able to see and print chess fonts and diagrams even if they do not have them on their PCs. Producing a daily chess newspaper is a rather bold idea, which requires a lot of work. GM Baburin is the mastermind behind the project and - IM Vladimir Barsky, GM Ruslan Scherbakov and Graham Brown (technical editor) are other people behind this project. The subscription is not free - Chess Today costs about $15 for 4 months, which is only about 12 cents per issue or 4-6 cents per page. As this newspaper can save you a lot of time searching chess sites every day and can also help you to learn more about chess, this may be a good deal. More information and a sample issue are available at www.chesstoday.net. Free Gift for Subscribing:  If you decide to subscribe at the Chess Today site please let us know at Contact Us and we will send you 10 free back issues of Chess Today.
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