Hot Cockles

Just how old is this game?

Many of you may have played this game, even Elizabeth Hurley admits to having played it. I know that I have but I knew it as “Guess the spanker”.

It is played like this

One player sits down, another player is blindfolded, kneels, and places his/her head in the sitter’s lap. The kneeler places an open hand on his/her back, with palm uppermost, which other players take it in turns to strike, and the kneeler must guess who has struck the blow.

Except the version that I played had mine and other peoples back sides glowing, before it was finished.

But it has been going on for some time

Originally I presumed it to be a Victorian parlour game but last week I heard on the radio that this game had been defined in the first English Dictionary, written by Samuel Johnson dating it as far back as 1746.My curiosity aroused, I engaged on a little internet search mission and found this page Hot Cockles: Information from Answers.com that stated that this game may have been going on since the 14th century.

So rather than the hundred and something years that  I thought this game had been played, it looks like it has been going on for seven hundred years or more. Long may this traditional spanko game continue.

And here endeth the history lesson

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Pole Of Shame

I’ve been passing by the subject of this post for a few years now but was inspired to do a post about it after seeing Public humiliations – historical inspiration on the blog Leia’s New Musings!. I see this particular historical item on a regular basis.

The schandpaal

More commonly referred to as a Strafpaal in spoken Flemish (it’s great here, you get to speak in Flemish but read and write in Dutch, just to make life interesting), the Dutch name literally translates as “Shame Pole”. It was the equivalent of The Stocks or Pillory, commonly used in historical times, in other countries.

Those to be punished would have a metal collar placed around their neck and then be attached to iron rings, by a short chain, set into the stone around the pole, for the purpose of public humiliation and pelting with rotten veg and various other nasty things.

The rings were set at such a hight as to be too high to allow the victim to kneel but too low for them to stand erect, thus leaving them in a muscle burning, stress position. As a usual sentence was between two and six hours, it can be imagined that this added greatly to the distress of those being punished.

There are multiple rings set into the stone, so that up to three miscreants could be dealt with at any one time.

There are also some accounts of this type of pole being used as whipping posts on some occasions but the main purpose of these facilities was to publicly show and shame petty criminals.

The images in this post were taken by myself and I am happy for anyone to use them for free but a link back to this blog is always welcome.

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Sunday Cinema – A Hiatus Posty

Although I have nothing against Pro Dommes or Prostitutes, I do think that they should be seen as two separate groups of people and this clip does make the mistake of mixing the two. But it does give an idea of the size of the market in the UK.

National figures

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Julie Spanks

This is an interview with a pro Domme. It is a little dry for the first couple of minutes but gets very good after that. The tour of the play room/dungeon is especially informative.

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An interview with Julie Spanks

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>Thought For The Week And 1 Million Visitors

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1,000,000 Unique Visitors

This post is in the scheduled list and so as I sit here typing away the stat counter has not quite made it to that extra digit yet but some time during today it should count the one millionth click into this blog (was it you?). Anyway a little more on that later, first it is time for this weeks Thought For The Week.

Thought For The Week

You may have already guessed that this weeks Thought would be related to today’s blog milestone

If one is lucky
a solitary spanking fanatic can get one million little clicks of attention

[Source - Converted from a saying by Maya Angelou]

Back to the milestone

One million unique visitors, well over 1,800,000 page downloads and just over three and a half years of spank related blogging, I have to admit that I am feeling a bit chuffed at the moment. Thanks to all those that visit here, I hope that you find something that interests or entertains you and thanks especially to those that comment. Myself and Dr. Malford (my non existent Headmistress) appreciate each and every one of you.

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>A Goodbyeeee – A Blog For The Rolls – Recognition – A New Book – A Survey – And True Friendship In Adversity

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Goodbyeeee Spectacularly Spanked

Spectacularly Spanked was an F/m blog from a female, Polish nationality, Top living in the USA. This blog has disappeared from the blogasphere and so it is time to wish it’s author all the best for future endeavors and a big thank you for the blog now gone.

A blog new to the rolls

Zille Defeu’s Fetish Fantasies – This is the blog from a female sub who is heavily involved in spanking video production, both in front of and behind the camera.

Spankedhortic gets ranked

LUDWIG in this post The Dirty Half-Dozen has ranked this blog in a new blog list that he has created. I feel very flattered, Thanks Ludwig.

A spanking book for a good cause

Abel and Haron (AKA Adele Haze), The Spanking Writers, have announced in this post Introducing the charity spanking anthology, that they will be producing a book, by multiple authors, that will have the profits from it’s sales donated to charity. This is an inspirational idea so let us hope that the book sells well and that the project is a big success.

A survey

Zille Defeu has asked readers “what do you want to see in commercial spanking material?” If you wish to add your voice to this debate leave a comment on this post What do YOU want from spanking porn?. Thanks to Adele Haze for linking this in this post Spanking porn: what do you want to watch?.

A humane interest story

I believe that serious reporting on the events in Japan should be left up to serious news blogs but with so much to report I suspect that many of them will not have much space for those little tales of hope amongst the debris and so I thought that I would post one of those here.

True friendship
A Tsunami tale

There is a translation of the conversation going on in the sub bar of the YouTube version of this clip, which you can see HERE. some of the conversation went like this

Yes. He is protecting the dog. That is why he did not want us to approach them. He was trying to keep us at bay.

Oh. Look. He is moving. He is alive. I am so happy to see that he is alive.

He looks to be weakened. We need to them to be rescued soon. We really want them rescued soon.

Apparently both dogs were rescued and are receiving treatment and care

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