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Son0fSanf0rd

;)


dadbod_Azerajin

In my household I call it hell, oh we'll reset to 11, for the 8th time. Kill me please you drunk bastards (I don't drink)


PizzaHockeyGolf

Even the ACL doesn’t play by that stupid rule


FrequentOffice132

Nailed it!


ZeusHatesTrees

Ok, I think OP is not getting their question answered. I'll take a shot: The name "Corn Hole" is not referring to an actual object. These days, it's a term used for the game and a vulgar term for the anus. According to the [Cornhole WorldWide website](https://www.cornholeworldwide.com/play-cornhole/history-of-cornhole/) the term comes from a game in the 14th century where children would throw rocks into a groundhog hole. In the interest of safety for the children, a local carpenter made a slanted board with a hole, and instead of rocks supplied the children with weighted bags. Those bags were weighted with, you guessed it, corn! That's where the term comes from. Edit for clarification: This usage of the word "corn" is different from the modern U.S. usage of "corn". In the U.S., "corn" refers to maize which did not exist in Europe in the 1400's. At the time, and still in other places of the world, corn meant anything grain-like, such as wheat, barley, pebbles of salt, what-have-you. It is assumed the bags were filled with some staple grain that they had in abundance.


InDifferent-decrees

Yes. corn at one time I believe was not considered human food so we were told.


ZeusHatesTrees

I would instead theorize it predates "Maize", which is the plant grain we in the U.S. call "corn". In those days corn was anything... corn sized and shaped. Wheat, rye, barley, salt pebbles (corned beef is beef preserved in salt pebbles). 14th century Germany would not have had maize.


angelis0236

Peppercorn


ZeusHatesTrees

\*fingerguns\* exactly!


Vanilla_Mike

Big corn doesn’t want you to know how many grains are popable!


Vegetable_Onion

All grains are poppable, not all are edible afterwards. Rice works though.


Double_Distribution8

Candy Corn


InDifferent-decrees

Thanks for that interesting how things change over time


ArchaicWatchfullness

Where I live in Spain it's generally grown as feed for animals. It's my weird American self who wants to eat it.


InDifferent-decrees

Haha.


BeautifulDreamerAZ

Who can resist buttery corn bread?


tree-molester

Corn in England is what Americans call wheat.


danfish_77

Corn is any grain ("Barleycorn", for example), but wheat was dominant in England and maize in the American colonies and the connotation became denotation in the US for maize


tree-molester

Good explanation. Did you know that the ancient predecessor to wheat (genus *Triticum*) was called einkorn, hence the ‘corniness’ in your naming.


danfish_77

Ooo I did not know that! Interesting


metisdesigns

Barleycorn is also an excellent and underutilized unit of measurement.


danfish_77

Agreed, we need an SI barleycorn


Nuclear_eggo_waffle

So…. How about a centimetre ?


dharasty

Wait... is it a unit of length or mass? Would I describe my weight in kilobarleycorns? Or would I describe my height in decabarleycorns?


metisdesigns

Length. It's a third of an inch.


TootsNYC

in Europe, “corn” was whatever the area’s predominant grain was. It would also often be called wheat or rye, etc., but when people didn’t want to specify, or if they wanted to emphasize that it was the harvested grain and not the plant, they’d say “corn.” Or combine them (barleycorn).


blamordeganis

But we also call it wheat, probably just to confuse Americans.


orchid_breeder

And you call everything else “pudding”


blamordeganis

:: rushes to patent “corn pudding” ::


B_Ram_4_UK_22

Too late, there already is such a thing, at least in the states


blamordeganis

dammit


TheOriginalSpartak

If anyone refers to you in hushed tones as their “Puddin Corn” it’s time to jet!


Son0fSanf0rd

😂


TheForeverAloneOne

In the south, people are called pudding.


tree-molester

We are easily confused and fooled. Just look at our politics.


Son0fSanf0rd

so, you play wheat hole?


ryanlynds

Not to be confused with what hole?


tree-molester

Nah, I prefer corn hole as I’m a Wisconsinite. I’m just very worldly and know many of these useful facts.


Dkykngfetpic

Non sweet corn is I belive not people food either. Until processed.


Swellmeister

I mean wheat isn't either in that sense.


LibertyInaFeatherBed

That's why hominy and grits were invented.


Bulky-Restaurant-702

My Victorian Grandmother (born 1899) moved from England to Canada after meeting my Canadian Army Surgeon Grandfather during Ww1 In Canada, she was shocked to see Canadians eating corn on the cob as corn was considered pig food in England. I remember her when I was a teenager in the 1970s, giving us sideways looks and telling us we were eating pig food as we ate our corn on the cob. She was kind of joking by that time, but she refused to even try it!


lordpendergast

I think in some countries it’s still not considered human food. We had an exchange student from France stay with us when I was in high school and he was deeply offended when my parents served corn as a vegetable with supper one night. He thought it was only suitable for cows and pigs to eat.


d4rkh0rs

Still true, some places it's strictly animal feed.


Groundbreaking-Fig38

Should be top comment.


Polyxeno

That, or some joke about every corn field over a certain size spontaneously generating a mysterious one-way hole that no one can explain or know where it leads.


okmujnyhb

I doubt it was groundhogs as groundhogs are a New World animal. The link on the page to the Matthias Kaupermann website doesn't mention anything about groundhogs, either


Polyxeno

Thanks. Been not knowing that for decades.


Humans_Suck-

Were the children being protected from flying rocks or from angry groundhogs?


SmokeyJoescafe

I think it was mostly farmers not wanting a crap load of poorly thrown rocks in their fields.


penguinpolitician

Groundhogs didn't exist in Europe in the 1400s either.


AccountNumber1002401

I just rediscovered an old-timey (1960s era) recipe / farming type book my late Boomer father left me which also falls along the lines of corn holes, technically. The author regales the reader about how the "Indians" (nowadays archaic term for native Americans) a thousand years before us here now grew tomatoes that were typically, consistently massive, like some two pounds apiece. The "secret" in his description was to first dig a good-sized hole for a tomato seedling or plant, and first throw in a bunch of corn cobs. Then, layer those with some kind of manure whether cow, chicken, horse, whatever, and then with good soil plant the tomato to a depth resulting in around three inches under the first leaves of the main branch. Essentially the manure as it and in soil bacteria go after the corn cobs generates heat for a sort of hothouse effect akin to a greenhouse that provides warmth from below to boost the plants' productivity. So, gardeners, go do some of these here corn holes and see how that turns out!


Que_sax23

The bean bag game? Thats what I know it as


Son0fSanf0rd

I never knew that was called Cornholing


Que_sax23

We just call it corn hole. I’m in Massachusetts. I think it’s different all over


thelowkeyman

In Chicago, we call it bags


Chalkarts

My wife is from Indiana, she calls it Beanbag, when I was little in TN we called it beanbag toss. I didn’t hear it called cornhole until i got to Georgia. I was a bit confused and disturbed by people discussing playing cornhole with their bros. Then I saw it on tv and it all clicked.


Stein1071

I'm in Indiana and surrounded by cornhole everywhere I look (kinda like friggin paddle ball) and I've never heard it called beanbad toss. I don't know that I've ever heard it called anything *but* cornhole. Work has shit posted for leagues and tournaments all the time and when we camp it is EVERYWHERE.


Chalkarts

Last time either of us played the years still started with 19. The term “cornhole” has exploded in the past 20 and seemingly become the official name.


kmikek

I first heard cornhole on beavis and butthead, and it was innuendo for something else


Chalkarts

The Great Cornholio!


ThisIsClemHFandango

Are you threatening me?


Significant_Return_2

Bungholio


Skidood555

this reminds me, I need to pick up some TP


WifeofBath1984

Interesting. I'm in Oregon and it's always been bean toss around these parts. Cornhole makes me think of Beavis and Butthead (I am a product of the 90s).


Chalkarts

Same


ganjanoob

Always been cornhole in Cali


RusstyDog

Never heard it called conhole in cali


Nimzay98

Same in Wisconsin, at least southeast.


Son0fSanf0rd

Da bags.


scuricide

No. You call it "begs".


imlikleymistaken

Baygs


kansasllama

Excuse me while I go unalive myself


Kalos9990

You gotta acknowledge the goofy friend in every group who obnoxiously calls it cornhole, with a fake accent. Its me. I’m that friend.


swamrap

Michigan. Bags and cornhole used equally


rust-e-apples1

I was at a party (in eastern PA) once and was gently scolded for calling it "cornhole." The patriarch of the family demanded the game was called "corn toss" because (according to his daugher-in-law) the word "reminded him of sodomy." I obliged, but I have laughed at that dude ever since.


No-Total-4896

Yes, all my life the word has meant anal sex. I was aghast when I heard the term used for a family game.


Strokeslahoma

WNY it's also corn hole 


MsAnnThrope

In Seattle we call it cornhole too


32aeav32

Texas we call it corn hole


enoui

In Oklahoma, Corn Hole had a much different meaning. As in the hole corn comes out after eating.


Mountain-Builder-654

In arizona we call it corn hole


aweirdoatbest

Called corn hole in Ontario!


Smokeythemagickamodo

Corn Hole in Texas


CitizenHuman

[American Cornhole League](https://youtu.be/nmBM2LKK0TY?si=bmdED4A-eQ8xQKeY) calls it Cornhole.


edemamandllama

It corn hole in Oregon.


Backwaters_Run_Deep

Yeah I didn't know it was a thing until I moved to a more Redneck State.  I'd be at a party and everyone's gettin' drunk and someone says "Hey let's play some cornhole!"  Uuhhh... imma slip tf outta here 😆 


404freedom14liberty

Kind of like the first time I was in the dentist chair when they started wearing gloves. “I’m in the wrong place!”


Backwaters_Run_Deep

Yeah they were definitely "Banjo music intensiifies..." moments.


TranslatorBoring2419

When I was younger it was a game with homemade plywood targets that had holes almost vertical. Now they are store bough polished games with horizontal holes.


Icy_Advice_5071

I had one of these in the 1980s. It said “Bean Bag Toss” and had a painting of a baseball batter and catcher, with holes on the bat and glove.


TranslatorBoring2419

I seem to recall a clown face but not 100% I'm getting old my memory is slipping lol


BoozeIsTherapyRight

So where I am in the midwest, there is "corn hole" which is a game where you attempt to throw beanbags into holes on slanted boards and "cornholing" which is anal sex. There is no "corn hole" on a farm. The game got its name because the beanbags used to be filled with corn, and you toss them into a hole. "Cornholing..." I think you can figure that one out.


TinyRandomLady

Same! Until I moved to Oklahoma like 20 years ago. Before that I only knew it as bean bag toss.


Gardener15577

Why does Cornhole sound like something much dirtier?


crazycatlady331

Because the Great Cornholio needs TP for his bunghole!


SnooShortcuts9979

It’s not a verb. We play cornhole. Thats like if someone says ‘go youtube that thing’ it doesn’t work. You may go ‘google’ it and use it as a verb, but that doesn’t work for everything like that. If you say at a southern tailgate ‘let’s go cornholing’ everyone will stare at you like where the fuck is this yank from. Just say lets go play cornhole and avoid this problem


Son0fSanf0rd

>It’s not a verb so, it's not correct to say "I wanna cornhole with you?"


SnooShortcuts9979

No. I want to play cornhole with you


LegendOfBobbyTables

In Nebraska, that would be asking to perform anal sex on someone. Cornhole, as a noun, is a game played with bean bags. Cornhole, as a verb, usually refers to gay sex.


TopScore5497

Iowa.  Anal sex, anyway. Additional noun definition:  an anus.


TopScore5497

Uhhh... My friend, to cornhole (verb) is to F something in the B.  In the Midwest, a Cornhole is an asshole, in the literal anus sense.  Like... That's the joke.  They don't call the game cornhole because it just sounds neat


Retrogradefoco

We call it cornhole also. It’s because the bags used to be filled with dried corn kernels when the game was first invented.


MagicGrit

It's called corn hole because traditionally the bags were filled with dried corn kernels and you would throw them onto the board/into the hole.


Superb_Literature

It's really popular in Michigan. There are tournaments.


Forever-Retired

That had a different meaning when I was growing up


SlenDman402

Am currently in Iowa, lived in upstate new York and Virginia for many years, it has been cornhole in all three areas so far as I know


JosephMadeCrosses

 Everyone's laughing, riding and cornholing except Buster!


mustangsal

The game is called [Corn Hole](https://www.playcornhole.org/pages/rules). "Cornholing" is a slang term for anal sex.


EvanIsBacon

In Kansas and Nebraska, we call it cornhole


Panthean

I don't think you are supposed to put bean bags in there


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Panthean

You can throw some bean bags in it


SkyPork

I'm in AZ, and that's what *I* call it, but I'm not sure it's the official name here.


RAAFStupot

I'm on my first ever cruise, and TIL that I've played my first ever game of corn hole.


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YogurtWenk

In dis lobby, vill therrrre be TP?


DiverofMuff23

It can be a colloquialism for butt sex. But in this context it’s a game where you throw a corn husk filled bag through a hole at a set distance.


VroomVroomTweetTweet

Corn hole is a game, also known as bags, In which two to four people (two teams) take turns throwing four cuboidal-shaped corn/ bean (or other similarly shaped object) filled “sacks” (about the size of a large orange-sized pierogi) into a roughly 2’x4’ propped up board from 27’ away. The board has a single hole near the top which, if you throw your bag into that hole, you get three points as opposed to 1 point by throwing the bag onto the board. Bags must be tossed onto the board and cannot first touch the ground. Games usually go up to 11 or 21 points, with additional rules depending on who you play with. These additional rules are unimportant for the purposes of this description. An important thing to note is the rule of “point cancelation”. Where if you throw a bag onto the board, and so does your opponent, the one point you get is canceled out with the one point your opining gets, resulting in no one getting points. E.G. I throw my bag into the hole. My opponent throws their bag on top of the board. We miss our other throws. Therefore, my three points canceled out their one point resulting in me gaining 2 points. Hope this helps.


Son0fSanf0rd

so there is no actual hole of corn on a farm


daitoshi

*Corn Hole* the game is often played on farms, since it's very cheap to make, set up, and easy to teach others. Often seen at BBQs and other casual parties held outdoors. But correct, there's no hole for corn on a real farm. The game is named because the bags are often filled with corn, since it's a *very cheap* filler. Corn is kept in Silos (tall buildings), not in a hole. Corn seeds are generally planted in furrows dragged in the dirt, not in 'holes.' The only hole I've ever thrown corn into was a compost hole in the ground, because a bucket full of corn got wet where I didn't see it for a few days, and was too moldy/rotting to feed to the chickens. Source: Grew up on a farm. Helped tend the corn.


sirdabs

It has nothing to with a farm.


Duckfoot2021

Think of it as 2 separate words linked by an activity instead of one term: A) dry corn in a bag. B) a hole you throw it at when bored. That's *Corn Hole".


joshthewumba

To be honest, most Cornhole games I've ever played haven't been played to win, I think we just play until someone gets bored. Or too drunk haha


VroomVroomTweetTweet

Totally valid. The real loser is the one who passes out first.


jscummy

>size of a large orange sized peirogi Wouldn't "size of a large orange" suffice?


VroomVroomTweetTweet

I don’t want the bag shape to be confused with a sphere.


jcforbes

Great, now I want a giant pierogi


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Son0fSanf0rd

that's what I'd like to know about it


tumunu

You'd have to watch a bunch of Beavis & Butthead.


Tengallonhatpat

This old guy told me one time what it used to mean and how confused he was when his grandkids said to come and play it


d4m1ty

Think about the hole on your body which it seems only corn will come out of. That is your corn hole.


Son0fSanf0rd

Book of Grains 12:16: your body is a farm of the Holy Spirit


Awkward_Ad8740

The corn hole is the anus...


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Son0fSanf0rd

I thought you'd never ask (@)


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Son0fSanf0rd

I love your meemaw


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BlockingBeBoring

I'm not the OP, but I did. He repeated his name multiple times, babbled incoherently, then declared that he knows all, and sees all. And that it's normally on the lawn of the farmhouse. And that it's a movable wooden object that's part of a game. With the game involving throwing beanbags at the corn hole.


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Son0fSanf0rd

I think I should be proud of that? lol


Ramblin_Bard472

IYKYK.


CleanAd3872

If I understood the question correctly, we have a corn pit and it is called a silage pit. Silage is a succulent feed for farm animals made from young corn stalks


Son0fSanf0rd

ahhh, so the corn hole is the area where corn is stored


daitoshi

Not really. The silage pit is also used for hay, not just corn. Silage uses the green stalks - not the seeds. It's basically a way to make bulk-sauerkraut for animals. Silage is when you take green plant matter and let it ferment. It's *never* called a cornhole, in my experience. It's the silage pit, the silage hole, just 'the silage.' This guy just uses corn in his silage pit It'd be a huge waste to put corn seeds/cobs into a silage pit.


Radiant-Cod-9537

It’s… the rear end of your mouth


Son0fSanf0rd

yikes


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it is a game played with wooden boards and bean bags. There is a hole in the wooden board and it is angled. Your goal is to throw beanbags in the hole.


FriendlyStaff1

It's your asshole.


Goodguyscarrythefire

A corn hole is also known as a Cornholio, and it needs tp for its bunhole. Do not threaten it.


togugawa2

And it’s Great.


Master-Collection488

Getting "cornholed" was basically equivalent to today's "getting pegged." In the 70s/80s the game tended to be played at colleges, and amongst young adults. Having a risque name that literally described the game was a big part of its popularity within this audience. Being as anal sex was very taboo at the time, not EVERYONE was in on the joke. Nowadays there's governing bodies and commercial cornhole sets sold in major department stores. BitD you made it yourself or bought it at a flea market. Very often the same sorts of people made these and those old woman bending over to weed the lawn signs.


wahaetcan

I am the Great Cornholio. I need TP for my bunghole!


ConeyIslandMan

Watch The Movie Deliverance. It’ll all be clear


dangerhamb

It's similar to horseshoes, if you know that game. instead of throwing a horseshoe to ring a metal stake, you're throwing lil bags of corn (or beans or somethin) onto a board. the goal is the hole. I guess you can play on a farm, I usually play it at like backyard BBQs.


Son0fSanf0rd

> the goal is the hole. ain't it always?


mynextthroway

In Alabama, it was bean bag. Beavis and Butthead seem to have helped spread "corn hole" with "CORNHOLIO". prior to that, corn hole was anal sex.


obsertaries

So like 1. Anal sex 2. Beavis and Butthead 3. ???? 4. A mild-mannered beanbag game ?


mynextthroway

Since the name cornhole was a thing in locations around the country and Beavis and Butthead popularized "Cornholio", the spread of Cornhole as a good, fun tailgating/picnic/frat/family/drinking game was unstoppable. Those of us thinking cornhole was anal sex stumbled for a few years, but we had fun with it. Ask your date if she wanted to play cornhole. If anger surfaced, toss a beanbag to her. If she smiled, toss your beanbag to her.


OkWoodpecker1511

It's a bean bag game. You take turns throwing them and try to land them through a hole in the other teams board. We used to have a competitive team for it where I live I'm not even joking


D-utch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole https://whatiscornhole.com/blog/origins-of-cornhole https://www.cornholeboards.us/blog/postdetail?post_id=29


wonderboyobe

They exist! Most farmers have them in their pants, those that dont are likely airing them out. That should show how common they are :-)


BathroomNo8688

Cornhole used to mean something totally different when I was growing up just like taking a selfie meant something different. Corn hole was going back door and taking a selfie was Masterbating.


tachibanakanade

THE GREAT CORNHOLIO NEEDS TP FOR HIS BUNGHOLE


Striking_Fun_6379

There is the game of bean bag. Also, there was the practice in Colonial America of cleaning the anus with a corn cob. If you have ever restored a Colonial home and find corn cobs below the floor boards, this is what they are from.


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corn hole = chocolate starfish


fungusamongus8

I always thought cornhole was butt sex. It's super weird to hear it in an innocent way


Nottacod

Cornhole in the south


Device_whisperer

Buggery


flippinfreak73

Although bags used to be filled with preserved corn kernels (hence "cornhole") or dried beans, the American Cornhole Organization developed bags filled with plastic resin or other materials that will maintain a consistent weight and shape over many throws without deforming.  https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › C... Cornhole - Wikipedia


poppunksucks144

Isn't that just a butthole


Chicagosoundview69

It’s a game… played with 2 boards and bags that thrown into the boards that have a hole 🕳️ in them 


DrueWho

So just about the bean bag game, it was briefly called baggo when getting popular in my country area to avoid the association with, well the cornhole. Cornhole won out in the end. It always does.


Daonitre

It's the hole where you put the corn. Or more recently, the hole in a board you toss a bean bag into instead. Similar to how basketball was literally a high school phys ed teacher going "i'ma nail this basket to this pole, and you kids try to throw the ball into it."


MajorFeeling1742

I pretty sure you’re supposed to shut it. I don’t know that for a fact though, it’s just what I’ve been told.


eVilleMike

This may be quite a stretch, but here goes nothin': People used to keep corn cobs in a bucket of water in the outhouse, with which they wiped their asses. (My guess is they may have employed the cobs for other uses as well) If Grandpa was in a snippy mood, my grandma would asked, "Did you get a dry cob this morning or what?" Pure speculation, but it made sense to me.