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A game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground. [From the phrase mumble the peg, from the fact that originally the loser had to pull up with the teeth a peg driven into the ground.]
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I have read "Decline and Fall" by Waugh. It was great. I love his sense of humor. BR needs to be on my list.
Yeah, the humor is more veiled in this one. It is there, though. This was supposedly his "why I am a Catholic / Christian" novel, a means to introduce the Church to a secular readership. He was an adult convert to Catholicism, and the part the Church plays in the novel is great.
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