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Calvinball
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Calvinball (uncountable)
- (games) A deliberately absurd sport without rules.
- 1996 June 17, Wayne Lockwood, "Nobody without health insurance is a slacker or a loser", Knight-Ridder:
And every time I would play serious tackle Nerf Calvinball out in the park somewhere, it played over and over in the back of my mind -- what would I do if I broke an arm? - 1998, Chris Glaser, Unleashed, The Wit and Wisdom of Calvin the Dog, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 71
At first my humans very much disliked it when I played croquet with them_..._. But eventually they decided to accept my participation, and renamed the game “Calvinball,” after the game of some comic book character - 2002 March–April, Bret Rappaport and Joni Green, “Calvinball Cannot Be Played on This Court: The Sanctity of Auction Procedures in Bankruptcy”, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, volume 11, pages 189–212
- 2005, The Grate[sic] Book of Moo, Church of MOO, Lulu.com (publisher), →ISBN, page ccclvii
They are required to play the game of Nomic, in some form, or alternatively, the games Calvinball or Mao, which are basically the same. - 2006, Cathy Yardley, Will Write for Shoes, How to Write a Chick Lit Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 148
Chick Lit, and pretty much all of publishing, plays a lot like Calvinball. There aren’t any rules. - 2006, D. C. Simpson, Prehistrionics, Ozy and Millie, 1997-2000, Lulu.com (publisher), →ISBN, page 76
“House rules parcheesi” is distinct from “Calvinball” in that the latter has no set rules, whereas the former seems to have very specific rules, which are never divulged in the strip, under any circumstances.
- 1996 June 17, Wayne Lockwood, "Nobody without health insurance is a slacker or a loser", Knight-Ridder:
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