# A good time will be had by all **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177 "2011-01-27T13:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/1 "2011-01-27T13:24:34Z")
A local sea food establishment has notified area residents, via an advertising insert in today’s St. Petersburg newspaper that a ‘cornhole tournament’ will be held Thursday at 7:00 PM. Fortunately, a prior commitment will prevent my attending this event but I thought I would share the information with those of you who didn’t notice, or didn’t receive, this important communication. If any of you elect to attend, I do hope you will get back to us with a report on the outcome of said tournament. Please wash your hands before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/2 "2011-01-27T13:28:13Z")
Okay- let me be the first. What is a cornhole tournament? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/3 "2011-01-27T13:37:38Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Okay- let me be the first. > > What is a cornhole tournament? I have no idea but I do know what the term ‘cornhole’ meant when I was a kid; I will not further define that term. I only hope it now means something other than what it did mean. I don’t know if Google is your friend in this instance and I have no intention of giving it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/4 "2011-01-27T14:23:25Z")
…there’s competitive cornholing? ---
**Author:** ![Pearson\_Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pearson_flyer/32/7241_2.png) [@Pearson\_Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearson_Flyer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/5 "2011-01-27T14:35:11Z")
Google is totally your friend, and Cornhole is a beanbag toss game that’s popular up north. > **[Cornhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole)** > > Bags (also known regionally as sack toss, or Cornhole) is a lawn game popular in North America in which players or teams take turns throwing fabric bean bags at a raised, angled board with a hole in its far end. The goal of the game is to score points by either landing a bag on the board (one point) or putting a bag through the hole (three points). > The game was first described in Heyliger de Windt's 1883 patent for "Parlor Quoits", which displays most of the features of modern cornhole, but u... ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/6 "2011-01-27T14:43:25Z")
Cornholing in Seminole, eh? heheheh huh huh huh huh hehehhe ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/7 "2011-01-27T15:01:53Z")
A cornhole tournament sounds like a pain in the arse. > [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Cornholing in Seminole, eh? > heheheh huh huh huh huh hehehhe ‘Semenhole’, as I like to call it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/8 "2011-01-27T15:27:53Z")
Yup…all over a large portion of the country, people talk about “playing cornhole” with a completely straight face. Somehow. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/9 "2011-01-27T16:27:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > A cornhole tournament sounds like a pain in the arse. > > ‘Semenhole’, as I like to call it. Actually, I live in St. Pete now; I’ve got to change my location one of these days but I know how much you enjoy the appellation you’ve applied and I hate the idea of taking that toy away from you. I guess I’ll just leave it the way it is for now. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/10 "2011-01-27T16:34:27Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Yup…all over a large portion of the country, people talk about “playing cornhole” with a completely straight face. Somehow. Is there no respect for history? Or tradition? How are young men supposed to grow up well versed in the vocabulary of guy school if ‘cornholing’ has been reduced to the status of a game played in polite(?) society? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/11 "2011-01-27T16:40:20Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Yup…all over a large portion of the country, people talk about “playing cornhole” with a completely straight face. Somehow. Damn Yankees! I don’t get the St. Pete paper but I’m curious where this tournament will take place. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/12 "2011-01-27T17:05:19Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Damn Yankees! > > I don’t get the St. Pete paper but I’m curious where this tournament will take place. I think I’m not supposed to mention the name of the eatery but the tournament will be held at 7:00 PM this coming Thursday at 1500 Second St. South in St. Petersburg. Actually, their menu has some really good sounding things on it; it’s just the games they play that I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/13 "2011-01-27T17:13:39Z")
I’m pretty sure that the game was invented by Beavis-and-Butthead-loving college kids who made the name up as kind of a joke, since the game is throwing bags of corn into a hole. But it stuck. And now, cornhole tournaments are EVERYWHERE in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/14 "2011-01-27T17:22:36Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the game was invented by Beavis-and-Butthead-loving college kids who made the name up as kind of a joke, since the game is throwing bags of corn into a hole. But it stuck. And now, cornhole tournaments are EVERYWHERE in Ohio. Fitting, since Ohio is the home of John Boner…er, Boehner. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/15 "2011-01-27T18:48:04Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the game was invented by Beavis-and-Butthead-loving college kids who made the name up as kind of a joke, since the game is throwing bags of corn into a hole. But it stuck. And now, cornhole tournaments are EVERYWHERE in Ohio. But does the corn look the same when it comes out the other side? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_Tightlips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@Joey\_Tightlips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_Tightlips)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/16 "2011-01-27T20:49:18Z")
_shrug_ I play in a Cornhole league. I’ve been familiar with the game for years as have most people in these parts (Richmond Virginia). ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfyre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfyre/32/9972_2.png) [@Shadowfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfyre)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/17 "2011-01-27T21:04:30Z")
Here in Chicago, we have tournaments at bars all the time. But we don’t call it cornhole. We either call it bean bags or just bags, e.g. “Hey, you want to get in on this bags tournament?” Or, “I’m going to Lou’s Bar to play bags.” I decided a while back to build my own boxes and went online to find dimensions. That’s when I found out that people call it cornhole. Much like **LouisB** , my mind went back to the high school definition. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/18 "2011-01-27T21:16:19Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I’m pretty sure that the game was invented by Beavis-and-Butthead-loving college kids who made the name up as kind of a joke “Ooooooh, i am Cornholio!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all/569177/19 "2011-01-28T22:05:31Z")
Yeah. There’s an official Cornhole Association (or some such) where you can get the correct dimensions (as **Shadowfyre** ) mentioned. There were quite a few smirks and giggles (from me) when SpouseO looked it up to make some cornholing equipment for his mother. Dear lord, that last sentence is at least three kinds of wrong.